hedge vs shuffle

hedge

verb
  • To obstruct or surround. 

  • To offset the risk associated with. 

  • To construct or repair a hedge. 

  • To enclose with a hedge or hedges. 

  • To reduce one's exposure to risk. 

  • To avoid verbal commitment. 

noun
  • Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements). 

  • A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land. 

  • Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate. 

  • 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. 

  • A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm. 

  • A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement. 

shuffle

verb
  • To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. 

  • To put in a random order. 

  • To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. 

  • To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another. 

  • To change; modify the order of something. 

  • To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. 

  • To use arts or expedients; to make shift. 

noun
  • An instance of walking without lifting one's feet. 

  • The act of shuffling cards. 

  • A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note. Sounds like a walker dragging one foot. 

  • The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player. 

  • A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth. 

  • A trick; an artifice; an evasion. 

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