hatch
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[edit] Etymology 1
[edit] Noun
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hatch (plural hatches)
- 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.
- 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.
- A narrow passageway between the decks of a ship or submarine.
- (slang) A gullet.
[edit] Translations
horizontal door
opening for serving food
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small door provided for access for maintenance
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[edit] Etymology 2
From Middle English hacchen; akin to Middle High German hecken (“‘to mate’”)
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to hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)
- (intransitive) (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
- (intransitive) (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
- (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
- (transitive) To devise. (hatch a plan)
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to emerge from an egg
of an egg, to break open
to incubate eggs
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[edit] Noun
hatch
- (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- These pullets are from an April hatch.
- (Often as Mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1-2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location (to mate, having reached maturity).
- (informal) As in the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched." A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
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birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time
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[edit] Etymology 3
From Middle French hacher (“‘to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines’”); Old French hachier
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to hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)
- (transitive) To shade an area of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines, particularly with lines which cross each other: cross-hatch.
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to shade an area
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