hedge

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

sebe

barreira

cerca viva

esquivar

evadir

evitar

obstáculo

presumir

proteção

proteger

estacada

paliçada

hedge

diminuir o risco

ser evasivo

sebes

varrer a sua testada

barda

cobertura de risco

cerca

cobertura

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

haie

Hecke

siepe

haag

seto

heg

steg

eludere

seto vivo

bardissa

barriera

afsluiting

Zaun

cobertura

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/hɛd͡ʒ/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: hegge

Herdado de inglês arcaico: heċġ

Cognato com holandês: heg

Cognato com alemão: Hecke

Herdado de inglês médio: 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.

Frases

The sun shines on both sides of the hedge .

O sol brilha nos dois lados da cerca.