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1 [hach]
–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
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.
1. incubate, brood. 3. plan, plot.
hatch
2 [hach]
–noun
—Idiom| 1. | Nautical.
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| 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.
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| 10. | anything resembling a hatch. |
| 11. | batten down the or one's hatches,
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Origin:
bef. 1100; ME hacche, OE hæcc grating, hatch, half-gate; akin to D hek gate, railing
bef. 1100; ME hacche, OE hæcc grating, hatch, half-gate; akin to D hek gate, railing

ha⋅chure
[n. ha-shoo
r, hash-oo
r; v. ha-shoo
r]
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. |
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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
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.)
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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