hedge

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. 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.
2. A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
3. (Cornwall, Devon, UK, West-Country) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
4. A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
5. Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
6. (Ireland, UK, attributive, figuratively) With indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate, poor, shoddy.

Verb

1. (transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
2. (transitive) To obstruct or surround.
3. (transitive) To offset the risk associated with.
4. (ambitransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
5. (intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
6. (intransitive) To reduce one's exposure to risk.

Concetti

siepe

eludere

barriera

evitare

recintare con una siepe

tergiversare

limitare

frontiera

aggirare

dolmen

ostacolo

scansare

schivare

sottrarsi

colonna isolata

operazione di copertura

siepe viva

limite

pietra miliare

sentiero

🛣️

sinonimi

fence

hedgerow

enclosure

evade

hedging

barrier

wall

fudge

dodge

circumvent

parry

paling

duck

🦆

hinder

elude

equivocate

beat around the bush

sidestep

skirt

stall

surround

fencing

border

palisade

hedge in

delay

put off

enclose

move around

next

obfuscate

obstacle

obstruction

prevaricate

pruning shears

rail

rail in

railing

rail off

rampart

rove

secateurs

shrub

shrubbery

shuffle

stockade

swan

🦢

tarry

temporize

tergiversate

Traduzioni

haie

Hecke

haag

heg

seto

sebe

seto vivo

steg

bardissa

cobertura

engel

Zaun

afsluiting

couverture

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/hɛd͡ʒ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: hegge

Ereditato da inglese antico: heċġ

Affine olandese: heg

Affine tedesco: Hecke

Ereditato da inglese medio: heggen

In summary

From Middle English hegge, from Old English heċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju, from Proto-Germanic *hagjō, from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”). Cognate with Dutch heg, German Hecke. Doublet of hey (a choreographic figure) and quay. More at haw.

Frasi

The sun shines on both sides of the hedge .

Il sole splende su entrambi i lati della siepe.