HATCH
\hˈat͡ʃ], \hˈatʃ], \h_ˈa_tʃ]\
Definitions of HATCH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
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a movable barrier covering a hatchway
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the production of young from an egg
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emerge from the eggs; "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"
By Princeton University
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sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
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a movable barrier covering a hatchway
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the production of young from an egg
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emerge from the eggs; of birds, fish, or reptiles
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
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To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
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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.
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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.
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The act of hatching.
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Development; disclosure; discovery.
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The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
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A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
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A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
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A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
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A bedstead.
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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.
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An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
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To close with a hatch or hatches.
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To produce young; - said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; - said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
By Oddity Software
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To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
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To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
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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.
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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.
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The act of hatching.
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Development; disclosure; discovery.
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The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
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A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
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A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
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A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
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A bedstead.
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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.
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An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
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To close with a hatch or hatches.
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To produce young; - said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; - said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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To produce (young) from eggs; plot or contrive.
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The number of young produced from eggs at a sitting; a door with an opening over it; a half-door.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A door with an opening over it, a wicket or door made of cross bars: the covering of a hatchway.
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To produce, especially from eggs, by incubation: to originate: to plot.
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To produce young: to be advancing towards maturity.
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Act of hatching: brood hatched.
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To shade by minute lines crossing each other in drawing and engraving.
By Daniel Lyons
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A half-door; opening in a ship's deck, or its cover.
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Brood hatched.
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To produce from eggs; originate.
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To shade a picture by fine lines.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To mark with parallel or crossed lines.
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The act of hatching, or the brood hatched.
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An opening in a deck, floor, or roof; also, its cover.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A brood; the act of hatching; that which is hatched.
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An opening in a ship's deck, or the passage from one deck to another; the covering over the hatchway; an opening in a mine; a weir. To be under the hatches, to be confined below; to be in distress, depression, or slavery.
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To produce from eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to contrive or plot.
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To shade in a drawing or an engraving with lines crossing each other.
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To produce young; to bring the young to maturity.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To produce young from eggs, as by a hen or by artificial heat; to contrive or plot.
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A brood.
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The frame laid over the opening in a ship's deck; the opening itself.
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To shade or delineate by lines in drawing and engraving.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. As many chickens as are produced at once: a brood;—act of exclusion from the egg;—disclosure; discovery.
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A brood excluded from the egg; the act of exclusion from the egg; disclosure, discovery; the half-door; in the plural, the doors or openings by which they descend from one deck or floor of a ship to another; To be under hatches, to be in a state of ignominy, poverty, or depression.
By Thomas Sheridan
