hatch
Plural: hatches
Noun
- the production of young from an egg
- shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- a movable barrier covering a hatchway
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- A trapdoor.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- 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
- A gullet.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- A bedstead.
- An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- The act of hatching.
- Development; disclosure; discovery.
- A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
- A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
Verb
Verb Forms: hatched, hatching, hatches
- To emerge from an egg, or to devise a plan.
- emerge from the eggs
- "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"
- devise or invent
- inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
- draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
- "hatch the sheet"
- sit on (eggs)
- To close with a hatch or hatches.
- To emerge from an egg.
- To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
- To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
- To devise (a plot or scheme).
- To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
- To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
Examples
- hatch, match, and dispatch
- He tried to HATCH a plan to use his ’Q’ without a ’U’, a common Scrabble challenge.
- I'm hatching this mysterious egg I found in the forest.
- Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground.
- She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching.
- The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.
- These pullets are from an April hatch.
- These three chicks hatched yesterday morning.
- World domination was only one of the evil schemes he had hatched over the years.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.
Synonyms
brood, concoct, cover, crosshatch, dream up, hachure, hatching, incubate, think of, think up, hatch up
Scrabble Score: 13
hatch: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhatch: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hatch: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary