different between hatch vs author

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)

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

English

Alternative forms

• authour (obsolete)
• auctor (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from auge? (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in English autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??.??/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /??.??/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???.t??/
• Rhymes: -????(r)
• Hyphenation: au?thor

Noun

author (plural authors)

1. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

   • 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language Preface

     The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

   1. (with definite article: "the author") I, me. used in academic articles instead of a first-person pronoun.
   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

2. Someone who writes books for a living.
3. (obsolete, criminal law) Principal.
4. (obsolete) One's authority for something: an informant.
   • 1699, Seven new Colloquies translated out of Erasmus

     Let me inform you en passant, Ladies, that those Villains the Heathens, as my Authors tell me, (and I thought it wou'd^[sic] not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our Saviour Chrestus, and not Christus, by way of Contempt and Derision […]

Synonyms

• (creator of a work): bookwright, creator, artist, subcreator, fabulator, writer

Derived terms

• authoress, authress
• author of life

Related terms

• authorization or authorisation
• authority
• authorship
• auteur

Translations

Verb

author (third-person singular simple present authors, present participle authoring, simple past and past participle authored)

1. (chiefly US, sometimes proscribed) To create a work as its author.

Derived terms

• authorable

Translations

Anagrams

• Hotaru

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?au?.t?or/, [?äu?t???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?au?.tor/, [???u?t??r]

Noun

author m (genitive auth?ris); third declension

1. (proscribed) Alternative form of auctor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• author in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  auctor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• auctor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 184f.

Middle English

Noun

author

1. Alternative form of auctour