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hedge | null |

As nouns the difference between hedge and null

is that hedge is a thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb hedge

is to enclose with a hedge or hedges.

hedge

English

Noun

(wikipedia hedge) (en noun)
  • A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
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  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ΒΆ, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge , little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
  • A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
  • A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
  • (lb) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
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  • Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.
  • *, II.2:
  • *:Attalus made him so dead-drunke that insensibly and without feeling he might prostitute his beauty as the body of a common hedge -harlot, to Mulettiers, Groomes and many of the abject servants of his house.
  • *1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p.639:
  • *:He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge -tavern near Aldersgate.
  • *{{quote-book, 1899, (Henry Rider Haggard), title= A Farmer's Year: Being His Commonplace Book for 1898, page=222
  • , passage=This particular wheelwright is only a hedge carpenter, without even a shop of his own,

    Derived terms

    * hedge fund * hedgehog * hedgerow * hedgy

    Verb

    (hedg)
  • To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
  • to hedge a field or garden
  • To obstruct with a hedge or hedges.
  • * Bible, Hos. ii. 6
  • I will hedge up thy way with thorns.
  • * Milton
  • Lollius Urbius to hedge out incursions from the north.
  • (finance) To offset the risk associated with.
  • To avoid verbal commitment.
  • He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
  • To construct or repair a hedge.
  • (finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
  • Derived terms

    * hedge one's bets * hedgy

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----