hatch
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (5)hatches, hatched, hatching
- emerge from the eggs“young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch”More general be bornSimilar brood, cover
- devise or invent“He thought up a plan to get rich quickly”“no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software”Synonyms: think upthink ofdream upconcoctMore general create by mental act, create mentallyMore specific fabricate, idealize
- inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decoratingMore general inlay
- draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper“hatch the sheet”More general line
- sit on (eggs)“Birds brood”“The female covers the eggs”Synonyms: broodcoverincubateMore general reproduce, procreateInvolves sit down, sitSimilar breed
Noun (4)hatches
- the production of young from an eggSynonyms: hatchingType of parturition, birth
- shading consisting of multiple crossing linesSynonyms: hatchingcrosshatchhachureType of shading
- a sloping rear car door that is lifted to openSynonyms: hatchbackhatchback doorliftgateType of car door
- a movable barrier covering a hatchwayType of movable barrierKinds cargo hatchPart of hatchway, opening
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. hacher to chop, hack. See Hash.
1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.— George Chapman
Those hatching strokes of the pencil.— John Dryden
2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. obsolete
His weapon hatched in blood.— Francis, & Fletcher, John. Beaumont
Origin: OE. hacchen, hetchen; akin to G. hecken, Dan. hekke; cf. MHG. hagen bull; perh. akin to E. hatch a half door, and originally meaning, to produce under a hatch. √12.
1. 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. Paley, William
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.— Jer. xvii. 11.
For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen] bring life into them and hatch them.— Raphe Robynson
2. 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. Richard Hooker
Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness.— Alfred Tennyson
To produce young; — said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; — said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
1. The act of hatching.
2. Development; disclosure; discovery. William Shakespeare
3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
Origin: OE. hacche, AS. hæc, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek gate, Sw. häck coop, rack, Dan. hekke manger, rack. Prob. akin to E. hook, and first used of something made of pieces fastened together. Cf. Heck, Hack a frame.
1. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
In at the window, or else o'er the hatch.— William Shakespeare
2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
3. A flood gate; a sluice gate. Robert Ainsworth
4. A bedstead. Scottish Sir Walter Scott
5. 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.
6. Mining An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
Booby hatch, Buttery hatch, Companion hatch, etc. See under Booby, Buttery, etc. — To batten down the hatches Nautical, to lay tarpaulins over them, and secure them with battens. — To be under hatches, to be confined below in a vessel; to be under arrest, or in slavery, distress, etc.
To close with a hatch or hatches.
'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched.— William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54