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hedge
A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced (3 feet or closer) 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 that are used to separate ...
is a line of closely spaced shrubs planted to act as a barrier or boundary.
Hedge or Hedges may also refer to:
Places
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Hedges, California, a former mining town in Imperial County, California, United States
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Hedging, Somerset, a
location
In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous bou ...
in England
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Hedges, Washington, unincorporated community in Benton County, Washington, United States
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The Hedges, a historic building in New York state
People and fictional characters
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Hedge (surname), a surname (including a list of people and fictional characters)
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Hedges (surname), a surname (including a list of people and fictional characters)
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Hedge Thompson (1780–1828), American politician from New Jersey
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Hedges Eyre Chatterton
Hedges Eyre Chatterton (5 July 1819 – 30 August 1910) was an Irish Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently Vice-Chancellor of Ireland.
Biography
He was born in Cork, the eldest son of ...
(1819–1910), Irish politician
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Hedges Worthington-Eyre (1899–1979), British sprinter
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Hedge (character), a fictional character in the ''Old Kingdom'' series of novels
Other uses
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Hedge (finance)
A hedge is an investment Position (finance), position intended to offset potential losses or gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. A hedge can be constructed from many types of financial instruments, including stocks, exchange-t ...
, an investment made to limit loss
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Hedge fund
A hedge fund is a Pooling (resource management), pooled investment fund that holds Market liquidity, liquid assets and that makes use of complex trader (finance), trading and risk management techniques to aim to improve investment performance and ...
, a type of investment fund
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Hedge (linguistics)
In linguistics (particularly sub-fields like applied linguistics and pragmatics), a hedge is a word or phrase used in a sentence to express ambiguity, probability, caution, or indecisiveness about the remainder of the sentence, rather than full ac ...
, intentionally non-committal or ambiguous sentence fragments
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Maclura pomifera
''Maclura pomifera'', commonly known as the Osage orange ( ), is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, native to the south-central United States. It typically grows about tall. The distinctive fruit, a multiple fruit that resembles an immatur ...
'' or Osage orange tree, often called a hedge in the United States
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Edge (disambiguation)
Edge or EDGE may refer to:
Technology Computing
* Edge computing, a network load-balancing system
* Edge device, an entry point to a computer network
* Adobe Edge, a graphical development application
* Microsoft Edge, a web browser developed by ...
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Henge (disambiguation)
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