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hatch

1  [hach]
Use hatch in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to bring forth (young) from the egg.
2. to cause young to emerge from (the egg) as by brooding or incubating.
3. to bring forth or produce; devise; create; contrive; concoct: to hatch a scheme.
–verb (used without object)
4. to be hatched.
5. to brood.
–noun
6. the act of hatching.
7. something that is hatched, as a brood.
Origin:
1200–50; ME hacchen; akin to G hecken to hatch

Related forms:
hatch⋅a⋅ble, adjective
hatch⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
hatcher, noun

Synonyms:
1. incubate, brood. 3. plan, plot.

hatch

2  [hach]
–noun
1. Nautical.
a. Also called hatchway. an opening, usually rectangular, in the deck through which passengers can pass, cargo can be loaded or unloaded, etc.
b. the cover over such an opening.
2. an opening that serves as a doorway or window in the floor or roof of a building.
3. the cover over such an opening.
4. Slang. the throat as used for drinking: His usual toast was a muttered “Down the hatch!”
5. Aeronautics. an opening or door in an aircraft.
6. the lower half of a divided door, both parts of which can be opened separately.
7. a small door, grated opening, or serving counter in or attached to the wall of a building, room, etc., as for a merchant's stall.
8. a bin or compartment built into a confined space, esp. a deep storage bin.
9. Automotive.
a. the cargo area in a hatchback.
b. Also called liftgate. the hinged lid of a hatchback that swings upward to provide access to the cargo area.
10. anything resembling a hatch.
—Idiom
11. batten down the or one's hatches,
a. Nautical. prepare for stormy weather: used as a command.
b. to prepare to meet an emergency or face a great difficulty: The government must batten down its hatches before the election.
Origin:
bef. 1100; ME hacche, OE hæcc grating, hatch, half-gate; akin to D hek gate, railing

hatch

3  [hach]
–verb (used with object)
1. to mark with lines, esp. closely set parallel lines, as for shading in drawing or engraving.
2. hachure (def. 3).
–noun
3. a shading line in drawing or engraving.
Origin:
1470–80; earlier hache < MF hacher to cut up, deriv. of hache ax. See hatchet

ha⋅chure

  [n. ha-shoor, hash-oor; v. ha-shoor] noun, verb, -chured, -chur⋅ing.
–noun
1. one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
2. shading composed of such lines; hatching.
–verb (used with object)
3. Also, hatch. to indicate or shade by hachures.
Also, hatchure.

Origin:
1855–60; < F; see hatch 3 , -ure
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hatch 1   (hāch)   
n.  
    1. An opening, as in the deck of a ship, in the roof or floor of a building, or in an aircraft.
    2. The cover for such an opening.
    3. A hatchway.
    4. Nautical A ship's compartment.
  2. The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
  3. A floodgate.

[Middle English, small door, from Old English hæc, hæcc.]
hatch 2   (hāch)   
v.   hatched, hatch·ing, hatch·es

v.   intr.
To emerge from or break out of an egg.
v.   tr.
  1. To produce (young) from an egg.
  2. To cause (an egg or eggs) to produce young.
  3. To devise or originate, especially in secret: hatch an assassination plot.
n.  
  1. The act or an instance of hatching.
  2. The young hatched at one time; a brood.

[Middle English hacchen, from Old English *hæccan.]
hatch'er n.
hatch 3   (hāch)   
tr.v.   hatched, hatch·ing, hatch·es
To shade by drawing or etching fine parallel or crossed lines on.
n.  A fine line used in hatching.

[Middle English hachen, to engrave, carve, from Old French hacher, hachier, to crosshatch, cut up; see hash1.]
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Hatch

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

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

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

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

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

Hatch\, v. t. To close with a hatch or hatches.

'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. --Shak.
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Language Translation for : hatch
Spanish: ventanilla,
German: die Durchreiche,
Japanese: 連絡口
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hatch  (v1.)
"to produce young from eggs by incubation," from M.E. hachen (c.1250), probably from O.E. *hæccan, of unknown origin. Hatchery is first recorded 1880.

hatch  (n.)
O.E. hæc (gen. hæcce) "fence, gate," from P.Gmc. *khak- (cf. M.H.G. heck, Du. hek "fence, gate"). Sense of "plank opening in ship's deck" is first recorded 1233. Drinking phrase down the hatch first recorded 1931. Hatchback as a type of rear door of an automobile is from 1970.

hatch  (v2.)
"drawn fine parallel lines," 1389, from O.Fr. hacher "chop, hatch," from hache "axe" (see hatchet).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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hatch

see batten down the hatches; count one's chickens before they hatch; down the hatch.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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