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What (who) is Hatch - definition
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Hatched; Hatch (disambiguation); Hatch (company); The Hatch
Hatch
·noun A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
II. Hatch ·noun A Bedstead.
III. Hatch ·noun Development; disclosure; discovery.
IV. Hatch ·vt To close with a hatch or hatches.
V. Hatch ·noun An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
VI. Hatch ·noun The act of Hatching.
VII. Hatch ·noun A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
VIII. Hatch ·noun The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
IX. Hatch ·noun A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
X. Hatch ·vt To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. ·see Hatching.
XI. Hatch ·vi To produce young;
- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg;
- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, ·etc.
XIII. Hatch ·vt To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched.
XIV. Hatch ·vt To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to Concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.
XV. Hatch ·noun An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an Opening.
hatch
hatch1
¦ noun
1. a small opening in a floor, wall, or roof allowing access from one area to another, in particular that in the deck of a boat leading to the cabin or lower level.
a door in an aircraft, spacecraft, or submarine.
2. short for hatchback.
Phrases
down the hatch informal used as a toast.
Origin
OE h?cc (denoting the lower half of a divided door), of Gmc origin.
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hatch2
¦ verb
1. (of a young bird, fish, or reptile) emerge from its egg.
(of an egg) open and produce a young animal.
cause (a young animal) to emerge from its egg.
2. conspire to devise (a plot or plan).
¦ noun a newly hatched brood.
Origin
ME hacche, related to Swed. hacka and Dan. h?kke.
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hatch3
¦ verb (in technical drawing) shade with closely drawn parallel lines.
Derivatives
hatching noun
Origin
C15 (in the sense 'inlay with strips of metal'): from OFr. hacher, from hache (see hatchet).
hatch
n.
1) to batten down the hatches
2) an escape hatch
Examples of use of Hatch
1. Hatch campaign director Dave Hansen said Urquhart called Hatch and the two had a cordial telephone conversation.
2. Exactly." These answers evidently satisfied Hatch.
3. Grissom escaped and said the hatch malfunctioned.
4. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Orrin Hatch of Utah.
5. Hatch said critics of the BioShield II bill were misguided.