Hedge vs. Wedge — What's the Difference?

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.

A wedge is a triangular shaped tool, and is a portable inclined plane, and one of the six simple machines. It can be used to separate two objects or portions of an object, lift up an object, or hold an object in place.

A row of closely planted shrubs or low-growing trees forming a fence or boundary.

A piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.

A line of people or objects forming a barrier

Something shaped like a wedge

A means of protection or defense, especially against financial loss

A wedge-shaped formation, as in ground warfare.

A securities transaction that reduces the risk on an existing investment position.

Something that intrudes and causes division or disruption

An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement.

Something that forces an opening or a beginning

A word or phrase, such as possibly or I think, that mitigates or weakens the certainty of a statement.

(Meteorology) See ridge.

To enclose or bound with or as if with hedges.

(Sports) An iron golf club with a very slanted face, used to lift the ball sharply upward, as from sand.

To hem in, hinder, or restrict with or as if with a hedge.

A shoe having a heel that extends across the shank to the half sole, forming a continuous undersurface. Also called wedgie.

To minimize or protect against the loss of by counterbalancing one transaction, such as a bet, against another.

Downstate New York See submarine sandwich.

To plant or cultivate hedges.

One of the various triangular marks that are the basic structural elements of cuneiform writing symbols.

To take compensatory measures so as to counterbalance possible loss.

(Sports) In snow skiing, the snowplow.

To avoid making a clear, direct response or statement.

To split or force apart with or as if with a wedge

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.

To fix in place or tighten with a wedge

A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.

To crowd or squeeze into a limited space

A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.

One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.

(pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.

A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.

(finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).

(figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.

Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.

(geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. Category:en:Shapes

(transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.

(architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.

(transitive) To obstruct or surround.

(archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.

To offset the risk associated with.

A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.

(ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.

(golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.

(intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.

One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.

To reduce one's exposure to risk.

(obsolete) An ingot.

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.

Silver or items made of silver collectively.

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.

A quantity of money.

To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; - sometimes with up and out.

A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.

To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).

One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.

To surround so as to prevent escape.

Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.

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.

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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.

(phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.

To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

(mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.

To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.

(music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.

A fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

(meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.

Any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change

(meteorology) A wedge tornado.

An intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement;

(finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);

The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.

Hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge;

(transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.

Enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges;

(ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.

Minimize loss or risk;

(transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.

(transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.

Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.

(transitive) To cleave with a wedge.

(transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.

(transitive) To shape into a wedge.

A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.

A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.

Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.

The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; - so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

A golf club having an iron head with the face nearly horizontal, used for lofting the golf ball at a high angle, as when hitting the ball out of a sand trap or the rough.

To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.

To force or drive as a wedge is driven.

To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.

To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.

To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.

To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.

Any shape that is triangular in cross section

A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation

A heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe

(golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole

Something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them

A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

Fix, force, or implant;

Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space;