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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 that are used to separate a road from adjoini ...
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 are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...
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 Abra ...
(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 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-traded funds, insu ...
, an investment made to limit loss
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Hedge fund
A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as sho ...
, a type of investment fund
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Hedge (linguistics)
In the linguistic sub-fields of 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 accuracy, certain ...
, 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, is roughly spherical, b ...
'' 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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