Sekirov Dictionary

hatch

/hæt͡ʃ/

verb 7
noun 15
forms 6
phrases 1

verb7

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to break out of an egg and come into the world, as a young bird does
- These three chicks hatched yesterday morning.
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To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
- She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching.
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To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
- I'm hatching this mysterious egg I found in the forest.
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To devise (a plot or scheme).
- World domination was only one of the evil schemes he had hatched over the years.
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To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
- Those hatching strokes of the pencil. — 1695
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To close with a hatch or hatches.
- 'Twere not amiss to keep our door hatched. — 1607
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(no longer used) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
- His weapon hatch'd in blood. — 1619

noun15

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A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground.
A trapdoor.
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An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.
A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
The act of hatching.
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The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
- The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago. — 1947
(informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
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A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- These pullets are from an April hatch.
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A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- The farmers lower down the brook pull up the hatches to let the flood pass. — 1879
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(figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.
- There's something in his soule? / O'er which his Melancholly sits on brood, / And I do doubt the hatch, and the disclose / Will be some danger, which to preuent / I haue in quicke determination — 1599
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
(slang) A gullet.
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(Scotland) A bedstead.
- It consisted of a rude wooden stool , and still ruder hatch or bed-frame — 1819

forms

hatched · hatcht · hatching · hatches · hatcheth · hatchest

Phrases with hatch

hatch out
To hatch from an egg.

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