different between hatch vs mayfly

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

Etymology

From May +? fly. Compare Saterland Frisian Moaifljooge (“blowfly”).

Noun

mayfly (plural mayflies)

1. Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults.

   Synonyms: shadfly, dayfly, ephemerid

   • 2002, John Gooderham, Edward Tsyrlin, The Waterbug Book, page 132,

     Adult mayflies have large compound eyes and most have two pairs of wings. […] Mayfly nymphs are distinguished by their three tails (two cerci and a terminal filament) and the set of gills on each side of their abdomen.

   • 2005, Terry Hellekson, Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art, page 213,

     Mayflies are fragile, gossamer-winged insects that arise from bodies of water and often swarm in great numbers.

   • 2010, Barbara L. Peckarsky, J. David Allan, Angus R. McIntosh, Brad W. Taylor, Chapter 9: Understanding the Role of Predation in Open Systems, Ian Billick, Mary V. Price (editors), The Ecology of Place, page 195,

     Stoneflies have negligible consumptive (thin solid line) and behavioral effects (thin dashed line) on mayfly abundance. Consumption by trout decreases the abundance of mayflies (solid line), but trout suppress mayfly emigration (drift) and thereby increase their abundance (thick dashed line).

Usage notes

In some English dialects, the alternative plural form is "mayfly". For example? While some animals take months to reproduce, mayfly need just one perfect day.

Translations

See also

• hatch

Further reading

• mayfly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia