different between catchment vs hatchment

English

Etymology

catch +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kat?m?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæt?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: catch?ment

Noun

catchment (plural catchments)

1. (often attributive) Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.
2. A catchment area, or the people it serves.

Derived terms

• catchment area
• catchment basin

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Verb

catchment (third-person singular simple present catchments, present participle catchmenting, simple past and past participle catchmented)

1. To divide into catchment areas.

   the catchmenting of mental health services

Further reading

• catchment area on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• drainage basin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle French hachement, a modification of Old French acesmement; not, as is often claimed, an alteration of achievement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæt?m?nt/

Noun

hatchment (plural hatchments)

1. (heraldry) An escutcheon of a deceased person, placed within a black lozenge and hung on a wall
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 7:

     Having passed through Gaunt Square into Great Gaunt Street, the carriage at length stopped at a tall gloomy house between two other tall gloomy houses, each with a hatchment over the middle drawing-room window; as is the custom of houses in Great Gaunt Street, in which gloomy locality death seems to reign perpetual.

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