different between generate vs hatch

English

Etymology

From Latin gener?tus, perfect passive participle of gener? (“beget, procreate, produce”), from genus (“a kind, race, family”); see genus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??n.?.?e?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??n.?.e?t/

Verb

generate (third-person singular simple present generates, present participle generating, simple past and past participle generated)

1. (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.

2. (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.

3. (transitive) To procreate, beget.

4. (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.

5. (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
   • 1883, Thomas Hardy, The Three Strangers

     Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.

Synonyms

• (to bring into being): create, spawn

Antonyms

• (to bring into being): annihilate, degenerate, extinguish
• (to produce as a result of a chemical or physical process): erase

Derived terms

• regenerate

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• generate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• generate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• green tea, renegate, teen-ager, teenager

Italian

Verb

generate

1. second-person plural present of generare
2. second-person plural present subjunctive of generare
3. second-person plural imperative of generare
4. feminine plural past participle of generare

Anagrams

• argentee, reagente

Latin

Participle

gener?te

1. vocative masculine singular of gener?tus

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?ch, IPA^(key): /hæt?/
• Hyphenation: hatch
• Rhymes: -æt?

Etymology 1

From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæ?, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.

Noun

hatch (plural hatches)

1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
2. A trapdoor.
3. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.

4. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
5. (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
6. (slang) A gullet.
7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
8. A floodgate; a sluice gate.

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9. (Scotland) A bedstead.
10. (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

1. (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.

Etymology 2

From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English hæ??an, ?ha??ian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjan?.

Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.

Verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

1. (intransitive) (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
2. (intransitive) (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
3. (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
4. (transitive) To devise.

Derived terms

• hatchling

Translations

References

Noun

hatch (plural hatches)

1. The act of hatching.
2. (figuratively) Development; disclosure; discovery.
3. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.

5. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
   • a. 1947, Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947, Charles K. Fox, Redistribution of the Green Drake, 1997, Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), Limestone Legends, page 104,

     The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago.
6. (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle French hacher (“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”), from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hak?n, *hakk?n, from Proto-Germanic *hakk?n? (“to chop; hack”). More at hack.

Verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

1. (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Those hatching strokes of the pencil.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

   • His weapon hatch'd in blood.

Translations

See also

• Hatch End

Further reading

• Hatch in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Thach, tchah