Hatch
[hætʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a movable barrier covering a hatchway.
(noun.) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines.
(noun.) the production of young from an egg.
(verb.) emerge from the eggs; 'young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch'.
(verb.) draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper; 'hatch the sheet'.
(verb.) inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating.
Checked by Basil--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
(v. t.) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
(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.
(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.
(v. i.) To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
(n.) The act of hatching.
(n.) Development; disclosure; discovery.
(n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
(n.) A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
(n.) A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
(n.) A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
(n.) A bedstead.
(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.
(n.) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
(v. t.) To close with a hatch or hatches.
Typed by Jack
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Breed (from eggs).[2]. Quicken (by incubation or by heat).[3]. Concoct, devise, plan, contrive, plot, design, scheme, project, brew, lay out, chalk out, meditate upon.
n. [1]. Brood.[2]. Hatchway.
Editor: Marilyn
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prepare, concoct, devise, scheme, brew, plot, contrive, incubate
ANT:Disconcert, upset, expose, dissipate, counteract, baffle, mar, spoil,frustrate, neutralize
Editor: Sasha
Definition
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.
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.
v.t. to shade by minute lines crossing each other in drawing and engraving.—n. Hatch′ing the mode of so shading.
Edited by Eva
Unserious Contents or Definition
To develop eggs.
Typist: Robinson
Examples
- Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- By the scallop-shell of Compostella, I will make a martyr of him, if he loiters here to hatch treason among my domestics! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You know Mrs. Hatch, I think? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- On the 21st he had detached Colonel Hatch with one regiment to destroy the railroad between Columbus and Macon and then return to La Grange. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But I understood--I thought you were with Norma Hatch. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- If you have come here to say disagreeable things about Mrs. Hatch---- It is only with your relation to Mrs. Hatch that I am concerned. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Lily had not been long in this pallid world without discovering that Mrs. Hatch was its most substantial figure. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In this family several hen birds unite and lay first a few eggs in one nest and then in another; and these are hatched by the males. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- As I reached their side a glance showed me that all but a very few eggs had hatched, the incubator being fairly alive with the hideous little devils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- A dozen of the prisoners had hatched it before they came aboard, Prendergast was the leader, and his money was the motive power. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The period at which the perfect plumage is acquired varies, as does the state of the down with which the nestling birds are clothed when hatched. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- As it reaches its full size it _matures_, it begins to produce young, which are either born alive or hatched from eggs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The young are likewise hatched, and live for some time, on the coast. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the American cuckoo is in this predicament, for she makes her own nest and has eggs and young successively hatched, all at the same time. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- When it don't go astray for a long time, they get suspicious and throttle it anyhow, because they think it is hatching deviltry. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I noticed that their eggs were so much smaller than those I saw hatching in your incubator, I added. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Ah, well I know those two rascals are hatching plots against me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Just at the time of hatching out do not be tempted to frequently open the drawer. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The hatching which we had witnessed today was a fairly representative event of its kind, all but about one per cent of the eggs hatching in two days. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- A chick, for example, pecks accurately at a bit of food in a few hours after hatching. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was indeed an incubator, but the eggs were very small in comparison with those I had seen hatching in ours at the time of my arrival on Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Diggory, having returned to the brink of the pool, observed that the small upper hatches or floats were withdrawn. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Clym reached the hatches, the framework of which was shaken to its foundations by the velocity of the current. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Edited by Ben