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Hatch

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What's The Definition Of Hatch?
[n] a movable barrier covering a hatchway
[n] shading consisting of multiple crossing lines [n] the production of young from an egg [v] sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs" [v] emerge from the eggs; of birds, fish, or reptiles [v] draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper; "hatch the sheet" [v] devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software" [v] inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating Synonyms | Synonyms for Hatch: brood | concoct | cover | crosshatch | dream up | hachure | hatching | hatching | incubate | think of | think up Related Terms | Find terms related to Hatch: angle | archway | autolithograph | back door | barway | be a printmaker | be born | be gravid | be illegitimate | be knocked up | be pregnant | be with child | beget | blaze | blaze a trail | blemish | blotch | brand | breed | brew | bring forth | bring into being | brood | bulkhead | cabal | call into being | carriage entrance | carry | carry young | cartoon | carve | cause | cellar door | cellarway | chalk | chalk up | character | charcoal | check | check off | chisel | cicatrize | clutch | coin | collude | color | come forth | complot | conceit | conceive | conceptualize | concoct | connive | conspire | contrive | cook up | copy | counterfeit | countermine | counterplot | cover | crayon | crease | create | cribble | crosshatch | culture | cut | dapple | dash | dash off | daub | define | delimit | delineate | demarcate | depict | design | develop | devise | diagram | discolor | discover | doodle | door | doorjamb | doorpost | doorway | dot | draft | draw | dream up | enchase | engender | engineer | engrave | evolve | experience imaginatively | fabricate | fake | fancy | fantasize | farm | farrow | father | fatten | feed | fictionalize | finagle | finesse | fleck | forge | formulate | frame | frame up | freckle | French door | front door | fry | fudge | furrow | gash | gate | gatepost | gateway | generate | gestate | get | get up | give being to | give rise to | grave | groove | grow | hatch a plot | hatch up | hatchway | have birth | hoke up | ideate | imagine | impress | imprint | improvise | incise | incubate | induce | inscribe | intrigue | invent | issue forth | keep | lay a plot | limn | line | lintel | lithograph | litter | machinate | make | make a mark | make do with | make prints | make up | maneuver | manufacture | mark | mark off | mark out | mature | mint | mold | mottle | nest | nick | notch | nurture | occasion | operate | originate | paint | paint a picture | parent | pencil | pepper | picture | picturize | plan | plot | point | porch | portal | porte cochere | portray | postern | prick | print | procreate | produce | propylaeum | provoke | punch | punctuate | puncture | pylon | raise | ranch | rear | riddle | rig | run | scar | scarify | scheme | score | scotch | scrape | scratch | sculpture | scumble | scuttle | seal | seam | set | shade | shape | side door | sire | sit | sketch | spat | spawn | speck | speckle | splotch | spot | stain | stamp | stencil | stigmatize | stile | stipple | storm door | streak | striate | strike out | stripe | suppose | tattoo | think out | think up | threshold | tick | tick off | tint | tollgate | tool | trace | trap | trap door | trump up | turnpike | turnstile | underline | underscore | wangle | work up | young See Also | be born | birth | birthing | cargo hatch | cook up | create by mental act | create mentally | fabricate | giving birth | hatchway | idealise | idealize | inlay | invent | line | make up | manufacture | movable barrier | multiply | opening | parturition | procreate | reproduce | scuttle | shading | sit | sit down Hatch In Webster's Dictionary \Hatch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hatched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hatching}.] [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.
--Chapman.
Those hatching strokes of the pencil. --Dryden.
2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.]
His weapon hatched in blood. --Beau. & Fl.
\Hatch\, v. t. [OE. hacchen, hetchen; akin to G. hecken, Dan. hekke; cf. MHG. hagen bull; perh. akin to E. hatch a half door, and orig. meaning, to produce under a hatch. ???.] 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. 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. --Robynson (More's Utopia). 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. --Hooker. Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. --Tennyson. \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. 1. The act of hatching. 2. Development; disclosure; discovery. --Shak. 3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood. \Hatch\, n. [OE. hacche, AS. h[ae]c, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek gate, Sw. h["a]ck 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. --Shak. 2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. 3. A flood gate; a a sluice gate. --Ainsworth. 4. A bedstead. [Scot.] --Sir W. 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} (Naut.), 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. \Hatch\, v. t. To close with a hatch or hatches. 'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. --Shak. |
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