Definitions for hatch
hætʃhatch

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hatch, hatchingnoun

   the production of young from an egg

2. hatch, hatching, crosshatch, hachurenoun

   shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

3. hatchverb

   a movable barrier covering a hatchway

4. hatchverb

   emerge from the eggs

   "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"

5. think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoctverb

   devise or invent

   "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"

6. hatchverb

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

7. hatchverb

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

   "hatch the sheet"

8. brood, hatch, cover, incubateverb

   sit on (eggs)

   "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hatchnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. A brood excluded from the egg.2. The act of exclusion from the egg.3. Disclosure; discovery.

   Something’s in his soul,
   O’er which his melancholy sits on brood;
   And, I do doubt, the hatch and the disclose
   Will be some danger. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   4. [ hæca , Saxon; hecke, Dutch, a bolt.] The half door; the opening over the door.

   Something about, a little from the right,
   In at the window, or else o’er the hatch. William Shakespeare, K. John.

   5. [In the plural.] The doors or openings by which they descend from one deck or floor of a ship to another.

   To the king’s ship, invisible as thou art,
   There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
   Under the hatches. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

   There she’s hid;
   The mariners all under hatches stow’d. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

   So seas, impell’d by winds with added pow’r,
   Assault the sides, and o’er the hatches tow’r. Dryden.

   A ship was fasten’d to the shore;
   The plank was ready laid for safe ascent,
   For shelter there the trembling shadow bent,
   And skip’d and sculk’d, and under hatches went. Dryden.

   6. To be under Hatches. To be in a state of ignominy, poverty, or depression.

   He assures us how this fatherhood began in Adam, continued its course ’till the flood, got out of the ark with Noah, made and supported all the kings of the earth, ’till the captivity in Egypt, and then the poor fatherhood was under hatches. John Locke.

   7. Hatches.Floodgates. Robert Ainsworth

2. To Hatchverb

   Etymology: hecken, German, as Stephen Skinner thinks, from heghen, eghen, œg, egg, Saxon.

   1. To produce young from eggs by the warmth of incubation.

   When they have laid such a number of eggs as they can conveniently cover and hatch, they give over, and begin to sit. John Ray, on the Creation.

   He kindly spreads his spacious wing,
   And hatches plenty for th’ ensuing Spring. John Denham.

   The tepid caves, and fens and shores,
   Their brood as numerous hatch from th’ eggs, that soon
   Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclos’d
   Their callow young. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. vii.

   2. To quicken the egg by incubation.

   Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth, ’till it is able to shift for itself. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

   3. To produce by precedent action.4. To form by meditation; to contrive.

   Which thing they very well know, and, I doubt not, will easily confess, who live to their great both toil and grief, where the blasphemies of Arrians are renewed by them; who, to hatch their heresy, have chosen those churches as fittest nests where Athanasius’s creed is not heard. Richard Hooker, b. v. s. 42.

   He was a man harmless and faithful, and one who never hatched any hopes prejudicial to the king, but always intended his safety and honour. John Hayward.

   5. [From hacher, to cut.]To shade by lines in drawing or graving.

   Who first shall wound, through others arms, his blood appearing fresh,
   Shall win this sword, silver’d and hatcht. George Chapman, Iliads.

   Such as Agamemnon and the hand of Greece
   Should hold up high in brass; and such again
   As venerable Nestor, hatch’d in silver,
   Should with a bond of air, strong as the axle-tree
   On which heav’n rides, knit all the Grecian ears
   To his experienc’d tongue. William Shakespeare, Troil. and Cressida.

   Those tender hairs, and those hatching strokes of the pencil, which make a kind of minced meat in painting, are never able to deceive the sight. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

3. To Hatchverb

   1. To be in the state of growing quick.

   He observed circumstances in eggs, whilst they were hatching, which varied. Boyle.

   2. To be in a state of advance towards effect.

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1. hatch

   Hatch primarily has two different meanings depending on the context. In the context of animals, to hatch means the process by which an animal emerges from an egg. In the context of ships or other vehicles, a hatch is a door or opening, specifically in a ship, submarine, spacecraft, or aircraft.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hatchverb

   to cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching

2. Hatchverb

   to cross; to spot; to stain; to steep

3. Hatchverb

   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

4. Hatchverb

   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

5. Hatchverb

   to produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc

6. Hatchnoun

   the act of hatching

7. Hatchnoun

   development; disclosure; discovery

8. Hatchnoun

   the chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood

9. Hatchnoun

   a door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge

10. Hatchnoun

    a frame or weir in a river, for catching fish

11. Hatchnoun

    a flood gate; a a sluice gate

12. Hatchnoun

    a bedstead

13. Hatchnoun

    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

14. Hatchnoun

    an opening into, or in search of, a mine

15. Hatchverb

    to close with a hatch or hatches

16. Etymology: [OE. hacchen, hetchen; akin to G. hecken, Dan. hekke; cf. MHG. hagen bull; perh. akin to E. hatch a half door, and originally meaning, to produce under a hatch. 12.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hatch

   Hatch is a town in Garfield County, Utah, United States. The population was 127 at the 2000 census. It is approximately 217 miles from Salt Lake City.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hatch

   hach, n. a door with an opening over it, a wicket or door made of cross-bars; the covering of a hatchway.—v.t. to close as with a hatch.—ns. Hatch′-boat, a kind of half-decked fishing-boat; Hatch′way, the opening in a ship's deck into the hold, or from one deck to another.—Under hatches, below deck, off duty, under arrest. [A.S. hæc, a gate; Dut. hek, a gate.]

2. Hatch

   hach, v.t. to produce, especially from eggs, by incubation: to originate: to plot.—v.i. to produce young: to be advancing towards maturity.—n. act of hatching: brood hatched.—ns. Hatch′er, one who, or that which, hatches; Hatch′ery, a place for hatching eggs, esp. those of fish, by artificial means.—Count the chickens before they are hatched, to depend too securely on some future and uncertain event. [Early M. E. hacchen, from an assumed A.S. hæccean; cf. Mid. High Ger. hecken, Sw. häcka.]

3. Hatch

   hach, v.t. to shade by minute lines crossing each other in drawing and engraving.—n. Hatch′ing, the mode of so shading. [O. Fr. hacher, to chop.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hatch

   An opening in a ship

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HATCH

   To develop eggs. HATCHWAY Place for developing eggs; a hen-coop.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hatch

   A half-door. A contrivance for trapping salmon. (See HECK.)

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HATCH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hatch is ranked #1304 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Hatch surname appeared 26,903 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 9 would have the surname Hatch.
   
   86.9% or 23,403 total occurrences were White.
   6.8% or 1,848 total occurrences were Black.
   2.3% or 640 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.8% or 484 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.3% or 358 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.6% or 167 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Be Born
   • Create By Mental Act
   • Handicraft
   • Inlay
   • Line
   • Parturition
   • Shading

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How to pronounce hatch?

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How to say hatch in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hatch in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hatch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of hatch in a Sentence

1. Claire McCaskill:

   USPS has failed to implement sufficient controls to ensure compliance with the Hatch Act.

2. The Forest Service:

   Its hard to say this, but the odds of our Big Bear bald eagle nests eggs will hatch this year are diminishing each day, the window of successful hatching is closing.

3. Mitt Romney:

   I join the people of Utah in thanking my friend, Senator Orrin Hatch for his more than forty years of service to our great state and nation.

4. Adam Schiff:

   First of all, I dont know who the whistleblower is, i havent met them or communicated with him in any way. The conspiracy theory, which I think was outlined earlier, that the whistleblower colluded with the Intel Committee staff to hatch an impeachment inquiry is a complete and total fiction.

5. Nancy Berns:

   He said that seeing [Hatch] executed brought him a sense of closure, only because he knew that he wouldn't have to keep going back to trials, but when he met with [Ake] and forgave him, that's what brought him peace.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hatch
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=hatch
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hatch
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hatch
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=hatch
7. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf
8. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=hatch
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=hatch
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
11. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hatch