Definition of hatch Hatch
/hæˈʧ/ - [hatch] - hatch
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WordNet
NounPlural: hatches |
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| hatch - shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | ||
| hatching, crosshatch, hachure | ||
| shading a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades | ||
| hatch - the production of young from an egg | ||
| hatching | ||
| birthing, giving birth, parturition, birth the process of giving birth | ||
| hatch - a movable barrier covering a hatchway | ||
| movable barrier a barrier that can be moved to allow passage | ||
| hatchway, scuttle, opening an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | ||
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| hatch - emerge from the eggs; "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch" | ||
| be born come into existence through birth; "She was born on a farm" | ||
| hatch - draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper; "hatch the sheet" | ||
| line reinforce with fabric; "lined books are more enduring" | ||
| hatch - inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating | ||
| inlay decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal | ||
| handicraft a craft that requires skillful hands | ||
| hatch - sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs" | ||
| brood, cover, incubate | ||
| procreate, multiply, reproduce combine or increase by multiplication; "He managed to multiply his profits" | ||
| hatch - devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software" | ||
| think up, think of, dream up, concoct | ||
| create by mental act, create mentally create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands | ||
| idealise, idealize form ideals; "Man has always idealized" | ||
| cook up, fabricate, invent, manufacture, make up make up something artificial or untrue | ||
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Wiktionary 
- hatch (Noun)
A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling. - hatch (Noun)
A trapdoor. - hatch (Noun)
An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through . - hatch (Noun)
A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance. - hatch (Noun)
A opening through the deck of a ship or submarine. - hatch (Noun)
A gullet. - hatch (Noun)
The act of hatching. - hatch (Noun)
Development; disclosure; discovery. - hatch (Noun)
A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time. - hatch (Noun)
Often as Mayfly hatch The phenomenon, lasting 1-2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity. - hatch (Noun)
A birth, the birth records in the newspaper — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched. ". - hatch (Verb)
To close with a hatch or hatches. - hatch (Verb)
Of young animals To emerge from an egg. - hatch (Verb)
Of eggs To break open when a young animal emerges from it. - hatch (Verb)
To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch. - hatch (Verb)
To devise. - hatch (Verb)
To shade an area of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other: cross-hatch.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hatch (v. t.)
To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching. - hatch (v. t.)
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. - hatch (v. t.)
To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. - hatch (v. t.)
To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. - hatch (v. i.)
To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc. - hatch (n.)
The act of hatching. - hatch (n.)
Development; disclosure; discovery. - hatch (n.)
The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood. - hatch (n.)
A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge. - hatch (n.)
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. - hatch (n.)
A flood gate; a a sluice gate. - hatch (n.)
A bedstead. - hatch (n.)
An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening. - hatch (n.)
An opening into, or in search of, a mine. - hatch (v. t.)
To close with a hatch or hatches.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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hatch
A narrow passageway between the decks of a ship or submarine.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hatch
hach, n. a door with an opening over it, a wicket or door made of cross-bars; the covering of a hatchway.—v.t. to close as with a hatch.—ns. Hatch′-boat, a kind of half-decked fishing-boat; Hatch′way, the opening in a ship's deck into the hold, or from one deck to another.—Under hatches, below deck, off duty, under arrest. [A.S. hæc, a gate; Dut. hek, a gate.] -
hatch
hach, v.t. to produce, especially from eggs, by incubation: to originate: to plot.—v.i. to produce young: to be advancing towards maturity.—n. act of hatching: brood hatched.—ns. Hatch′er, one who, or that which, hatches; Hatch′ery, a place for hatching eggs, esp. those of fish, by artificial means.—Count the chickens before they are hatched, to depend too securely on some future and uncertain event. [Early M. E. hacchen, from an assumed A.S. hæccean; cf. Mid. High Ger. hecken, Sw. häcka.] -
hatch
hach, v.t. to shade by minute lines crossing each other in drawing and engraving.—n. Hatch′ing, the mode of so shading. [O. Fr. hacher, to chop.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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hatch
or HATCHWAY, ecoutille, a square or oblong opening in the deck of a ship, of which there are several, forming the passages from one deck to another, and into the hold, or lower apartments. See the DECK, plate III. where A represents the main-hatchway of the lower deck; N N, the fore-hatchway; and O O, the after-hatchway.There are likewise hatches of a smaller kind, called scuttles. See U U in the same figure, as also the article SCUTTLE.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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hatch
A half-door. A contrivance for trapping salmon. (See HECK.)
Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary 🤡
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hatch
To develop eggs.
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