Hedge vs. Bush — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hedge and Bush
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Hedge
A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced shrubs and sometimes trees, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area, such as between neighbouring properties. Hedges used to separate a road from adjoining fields or one field from another, and of sufficient age to incorporate larger trees, are known as hedgerows.
Bush
A shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length
A rose bush
Hedge
A row of closely planted shrubs or low-growing trees forming a fence or boundary.
Bush
(especially in Australia and Africa) wild or uncultivated country
They have to spend a night camping in the bush
Hedge
A line of people or objects forming a barrier
A hedge of spectators along the sidewalk.
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Bush
A luxuriant growth of thick hair or fur
A childish face with a bush of bright hair
Hedge
A means of protection or defense, especially against financial loss
A hedge against inflation.
Bush
A metal lining for a round hole, especially one in which an axle revolves.
Hedge
A securities transaction that reduces the risk on an existing investment position.
Bush
A sleeve that protects an electric cable where it passes through a panel.
Hedge
An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement.
Bush
Spread out into a thick clump
Her hair bushed out like a halo
Hedge
A word or phrase, such as possibly or I think, that mitigates or weakens the certainty of a statement.
Bush
A low shrub with many branches.
Hedge
To enclose or bound with or as if with hedges.
Bush
A thick growth of shrubs; a thicket.
Hedge
To hem in, hinder, or restrict with or as if with a hedge.
Bush
Land covered with dense vegetation or undergrowth.
Hedge
To minimize or protect against the loss of by counterbalancing one transaction, such as a bet, against another.
Bush
Land remote from settlement
The Australian bush.
Hedge
To plant or cultivate hedges.
Bush
A shaggy mass, as of hair.
Hedge
To take compensatory measures so as to counterbalance possible loss.
Bush
Vulgar Slang A growth of pubic hair.
Hedge
To avoid making a clear, direct response or statement.
Bush
A fox's tail.
Hedge
A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
He trims the hedge once a week.
Bush
(Archaic) A clump of ivy hung outside a tavern to indicate the availability of wine inside.
Hedge
A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
Bush
(Obsolete) A tavern.
Hedge
A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
Bush
To grow or branch out like a bush.
Hedge
(pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
Weasel word
Bush
To extend in a bushy growth.
Hedge
(finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
The asset class acts as a hedge.
A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses/gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. In simple language, a hedge is used to reduce any substantial losses/gains suffered by an individual or an organization.
Bush
To decorate, protect, or support with bushes.
Hedge
Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.
Bush
To furnish or line with a bushing.
Hedge
(transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
To hedge a field or garden
Bush
(Slang) Bush-league; second-rate
"Reviewers here have tended to see in him a kind of bush D.H. Lawrence" (Saturday Review).
Hedge
(transitive) To obstruct or surround.
Bush
(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
Hedge
To offset the risk associated with.
Bush
A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
Bushes to support pea vines
Hedge
(ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
Bush
(historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
Hedge
(intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
Bush
A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
Hedge
To reduce one's exposure to risk.
Bush
(hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
Hedge
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.
The roughest berry on the rudest hedge.
Through the verdant mazeOf sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk.
Bush
(archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
Hedge
To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
Bush
(often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
Hedge
To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; - sometimes with up and out.
I will hedge up thy way with thorns.
Lollius Urbius . . . drew another wall . . . to hedge out incursions from the north.
Bush
(Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
Hedge
To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
Bush
(New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
Hedge
To surround so as to prevent escape.
That is a law to hedge in the cuckoo.
Bush
(Canadian) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
Hedge
To protect oneself against excessive loss in an activity by taking a countervailing action; as, to hedge an investment denominated in a foreign currency by buying or selling futures in that currency; to hedge a donation to one political party by also donating to the opposed political party.
Bush
(Canadian) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
Hedge
To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge and to lurch.
Bush
(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
Hedge
To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
Bush
A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
Hedge
To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
The Heroic Stanzas read much more like an elaborate attempt to hedge between the parties than . . . to gain favor from the Roundheads.
Bush
A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
Hedge
A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
Bush
A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
Hedge
Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
Bush
(intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
Hedge
An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement;
When you say `maybe' you are just hedging
Bush
To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
To bush peas
Hedge
Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);
He dodged the issue
She skirted the problem
They tend to evade their responsibilities
He evaded the questions skillfully
Bush
To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
To bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground
Hedge
Hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge;
The animals were hedged in
Bush
To become bushy (often used with up).
I can tell when my cat is upset because he'll bush up his tail.
Hedge
Enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges;
Hedge the property
Bush
(transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
To bush a pivot hole
Hedge
Minimize loss or risk;
Diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks
Hedge your bets
Bush
(Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
Bush
(colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
They're supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.
Bush
A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
Bush
A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
To bind a bush of thorns among sweet-smelling flowers.
Bush
A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
Bush
A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue.
Bush
The tail, or brush, of a fox.
Bush
A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.
Bush
A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
Bush
To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
Bush
To set bushes for; to support with bushes; as, to bush peas.
Bush
To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.
Bush
To furnish with a bush, or lining; as, to bush a pivot hole.
Bush
A low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches
Bush
A large wilderness area
Bush
Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
Bush
43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)
Bush
United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)
Bush
Vice President under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924)
Bush
Hair growing in the pubic area
Bush
Provide with a bushing
Bush
Not of the highest quality or sophistication
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