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hatch
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)
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- A trapdoor.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- (slang) A gullet.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
- (Scotland) A bedstead.
- (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)
- (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)
- (intransitive) (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
- (intransitive) (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
- (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
- (transitive) To devise.
Derived terms
- hatchling
Translations
References
Noun
hatch (plural hatches)
- The act of hatching.
- (figuratively) Development; disclosure; discovery.
- (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- (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.
- 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,
- (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)
- (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.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- (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
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hatchability
English
Etymology
hatch +? -ability
Noun
hatchability (uncountable)
- (of an egg) The state of being likely to hatch; a measure of that ability
- (of a bird etc) The state of being able to produce hatchable eggs; a measure of that ability
Translations
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