See hedging in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "hedging",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "hedge"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of hedge"
],
"id": "en-hedging-en-verb-PiorR0f9",
"links": [
[
"hedge",
"hedge#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɛd͡ʒɪŋ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hedging.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "hedging"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "hedging bill"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "hedging-bill"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "over-hedging"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "under-hedging"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "hedgings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "hedging (plural hedgings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The act of one who hedges (in various senses)."
],
"id": "en-hedging-en-noun-8VCwlXL2"
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "13 65 18 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 61 17 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 80 8 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Any plant used to form a hedge."
],
"id": "en-hedging-en-noun-a-JXhukm",
"links": [
[
"plant",
"plant"
],
[
"hedge",
"hedge"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Pragmatics",
"orig": "en:Pragmatics",
"parents": [
"Linguistics",
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487:",
"text": "Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The use of intentionally ambiguous or noncommittal statements."
],
"id": "en-hedging-en-noun-nrTLA7Zr",
"links": [
[
"pragmatics",
"pragmatics"
],
[
"ambiguous",
"ambiguous"
],
[
"noncommittal",
"noncommittal"
],
[
"statement",
"statement"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(pragmatics, composition) The use of intentionally ambiguous or noncommittal statements."
],
"tags": [
"composition"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"pragmatics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɛd͡ʒɪŋ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hedging.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "hedging"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "hedging",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "hedge"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of hedge"
],
"links": [
[
"hedge",
"hedge#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɛd͡ʒɪŋ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hedging.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "hedging"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "hedging bill"
},
{
"word": "hedging-bill"
},
{
"word": "over-hedging"
},
{
"word": "under-hedging"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "hedgings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "hedging (plural hedgings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The act of one who hedges (in various senses)."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Any plant used to form a hedge."
],
"links": [
[
"plant",
"plant"
],
[
"hedge",
"hedge"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Pragmatics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487:",
"text": "Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The use of intentionally ambiguous or noncommittal statements."
],
"links": [
[
"pragmatics",
"pragmatics"
],
[
"ambiguous",
"ambiguous"
],
[
"noncommittal",
"noncommittal"
],
[
"statement",
"statement"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(pragmatics, composition) The use of intentionally ambiguous or noncommittal statements."
],
"tags": [
"composition"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"pragmatics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɛd͡ʒɪŋ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hedging.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hedging.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "hedging"
}
Download raw JSONL data for hedging meaning in English (3.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.