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hatch

1  [hach]
Use hatched 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

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 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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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