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HATCH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sloping rear car door that is lifted to open

Synonyms:

hatch; hatchback; hatchback door; liftgate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

car door (the door of a car)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

Synonyms:

crosshatch; hachure; hatch; hatching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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 4

Meaning:

The production of young from an egg

Synonyms:

hatch; hatching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sit on (eggs)

Example:

The female covers the eggs

Synonyms:

brood; cover; hatch; incubate

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Emerge from the eggs

Example:

young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

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 3

Meaning:

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

Example:

hatch the sheet

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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 4

Meaning:

Devise or invent

Example:

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

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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 5

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A number of men, however, who were lounging about a companion-way between the galley and hatch, and who did not seem to be sailors, continued talking in low tones with one another.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

However, they gradually weaken as the hatching period approaches to make it easier for the chicks to break through the shell.

(Study paves way for healthier and more robust eggs, University of Granada)

After hatching in the Sargasso Sea, eel larvae move more than 5,000 kilometers with the Gulf Stream until they reach the continental slope off Europe.

(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)

Only a few days old, the young honeyguide uses these built-in weapons to kill its foster siblings as soon as they hatch, says Spottiswoode.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There were four newly hatched chicks, a day old—little specks of pulsating life no more than a mouthful; and he ate them ravenously, thrusting them alive into his mouth and crunching them like egg-shells between his teeth.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

If the young gentleman in the red tie who cried No, no, and who presumably claimed to have been hatched out of an egg, would wait upon him after the lecture, he would be glad to see such a curiosity.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Judge Scott did not know all things, and he did not know that he was party to a police conspiracy, that the evidence was hatched and perjured, that Jim Hall was guiltless of the crime charged.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

However, we returned to those monsters, with fresh wakefulness on my part, and we left their eggs in the sand for the sun to hatch; and we ran away from them, and baffled them by constantly turning, which they were unable to do quickly, on account of their unwieldy make; and we went into the water after them, as natives, and put sharp pieces of timber down their throats; and in short we ran the whole crocodile gauntlet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He saw himself, stripped to the waist, with naked fists, fighting his great fight with Liverpool Red in the forecastle of the Susquehanna; and he saw the bloody deck of the John Rogers, that gray morning of attempted mutiny, the mate kicking in death- throes on the main-hatch, the revolver in the old man's hand spitting fire and smoke, the men with passion-wrenched faces, of brutes screaming vile blasphemies and falling about him—and then he returned to the central scene, calm and clean in the steadfast light, where Ruth sat and talked with him amid books and paintings; and he saw the grand piano upon which she would later play to him; and he heard the echoes of his own selected and correct words, But then, may I not be peculiarly constituted to write?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now, said the father to the eldest son, take away the eggs without letting the bird that is sitting upon them and hatching them know anything of what you are doing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)