different between hatch vs thatch

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.

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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

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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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æt?/
• Rhymes: -æt?

Etymology 1

Variant of thack, from Middle English thache, thach, from Old English þæc (“roof-covering”), from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þak? (“covering”), from (o-grade of) Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“cover”).

Cognate with Icelandic þak, Dutch dak, German Dach, Norwegian tak, Swedish tak, Danish tag; and with Latin toga, Albanian thak (“awn, beard, pin, peg, tassel, fringe”), Lithuanian stogas (“roof”). Related to Ancient Greek ????? (tégos, “roof”) and ????? (stég?, “roof”). See also English deech, deck.

Noun

thatch (countable and uncountable, plural thatches)

1. Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
2. (Caribbean) Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
3. A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
4. (by extension) Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.
   • 2008, Wallace Madding, The Country Club Killings: A Montana Story (page 21)

     An outgoing, story-telling Irishman from Butte, Montana, with his thatch of red hair and sandpapered face, Matt was the quintessential imp.

Synonyms

• (straw for covering roofs or stacks): haulm

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Etymology 2

From Middle English thacchen, from Old English þe??an, þe??ean (“to cover”), from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjan? (“to cover”), from Proto-Germanic *þak? (“cover, covering”, noun) (see above).

Cognate with West Frisian dekke, Dutch dekken, German decken, Danish tække, Swedish täcka. Alteration of vowel after Middle English perhaps due to the above noun.

Verb

thatch (third-person singular simple present thatches, present participle thatching, simple past and past participle thatched)

1. To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.

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Anagrams

• hatcht