HATCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hatch mean? 

• HATCH (noun)
  The noun HATCH has 4 senses:

1. the production of young from an egg

2. shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

3. a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open

4. a movable barrier covering a hatchway

  Familiarity information: HATCH used as a noun is uncommon.

• HATCH (verb)
  The verb HATCH has 5 senses:

1. emerge from the eggs

2. devise or invent

3. inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating

4. draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper

5. sit on (eggs)

  Familiarity information: HATCH used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HATCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The production of young from an egg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

hatch; hatching

Hypernyms ("hatch" is a kind of...):

birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition (the process of giving birth)

Derivation:

hatch (sit on (eggs))

hatch (emerge from the eggs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

crosshatch; hachure; hatch; hatching

Hypernyms ("hatch" is a kind of...):

shading (graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting)

Derivation:

hatch (draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper)

hatch (inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A sloping rear car door that is lifted to open

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hatch; hatchback; hatchback door; liftgate

Hypernyms ("hatch" is a kind of...):

car door (the door of a car)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A movable barrier covering a hatchway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hatch" is a kind of...):

movable barrier (a barrier that can be moved to allow passage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hatch"):

cargo hatch (hatch opening into the cargo compartment)

Holonyms ("hatch" is a part of...):

hatchway; opening; scuttle (an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship)

• HATCH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hatch    ... he / she / it hatches   
Past simple: hatched   
Past participle: hatched   
-ing form: hatching   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emerge from the eggs

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch

Hypernyms (to "hatch" is one way to...):

be born (come into existence through birth)

Verb group:

brood; cover; hatch; incubate (sit on (eggs))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

hatch (the production of young from an egg)

hatchery (a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs))

hatching (the production of young from an egg)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Devise or invent

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up

Context example:

no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software

Hypernyms (to "hatch" is one way to...):

create by mental act; create mentally (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hatch"):

idealise; idealize (form ideals)

cook up; fabricate; invent; make up; manufacture (concoct something artificial or untrue)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he hatch his major works over a short period of time?

Sense 3

Meaning:

Inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "hatch" is one way to...):

inlay (decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal)

Domain category:

handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

hatch (shading consisting of multiple crossing lines)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

hatch the sheet

Hypernyms (to "hatch" is one way to...):

line (mark with lines)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

hachure; hatch; hatching (shading consisting of multiple crossing lines)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Sit on (eggs)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

brood; cover; hatch; incubate

Context example:

The female covers the eggs

Hypernyms (to "hatch" is one way to...):

multiply; procreate; reproduce (have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant)

"Hatch" entails doing...:

sit; sit down (take a seat)

Verb group:

breed; cover (copulate with a female, used especially of horses)

hatch (emerge from the eggs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

hatch (the production of young from an egg)

 Context examples 

The zones indicate the time of hatching in Rapetosaurus, and allowed the scientists to estimate the weight of the newly hatched Rapetosaurus — around 7.7 pounds.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

Scientists had thought dinosaur eggs were more like those of modern birds than modern reptiles, but this long hatch time is far more reminiscent of monitor lizard than magpie.

(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)

Then she went on sitting, and hatched them: and in a few days they crawled out, and had only a little red streak across their necks, where the tailor had sewn them together.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

For example, in the latter case, you may hear a confession of love or hatch a plan to move in together.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

However, when in contact with water, they quickly hatch and develop into larvae that become adult mosquitoes after 15 days.

(Thyme oil and corn starch prove deadly for mosquito larvae, SciDev.Net)

It was a sharp twenty minutes, but we beat her people down below, made the hatches fast on them, and towed her into Seaham.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A fight betwixt spurred cock and new hatched chicken!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, he's dead now and under hatches; but for two year before that, shiver my timbers, the man was starving!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The eggs hatch inside your intestines.

(Pinworms, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

A dozen of the prisoners had hatched it before they came aboard, Prendergast was the leader, and his money was the motive power.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)