'Hatch' definitions:
Definition of 'hatch'
From: WordNet
noun
The production of young from an egg [syn: hatch, hatching]
noun
noun
A movable barrier covering a hatchway
verb
Emerge from the eggs; "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"
verb
Devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software" [syn: think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct]
verb
Inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
verb
Draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper; "hatch the sheet"
verb
Definition of 'Hatch'
From: GCIDE
- Hatch \Hatch\, v. i. To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hatch'
From: GCIDE
- Hatch \Hatch\ (h[a^]ch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hatched (h[a^]cht); p. pr. & vb. n. Hatching.] [F. hacher to chop, hack. See Hash.]
- 1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching. [1913 Webster]
- Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- Those hatching strokes of the pencil. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- His weapon hatched in blood. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hatch'
From: GCIDE
- Hatch \Hatch\, v. t. [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. [root]12.]
- 1. 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. --Paley. [1913 Webster]
- As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. --Jer. xvii. 11. [1913 Webster]
- For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen] bring life into them and hatch them. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hatch'
From: GCIDE
- Hatch \Hatch\, n.
- 1. The act of hatching. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Development; disclosure; discovery. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hatch'
From: GCIDE
- Hatch \Hatch\, n. [OE. hacche, AS. h[ae]c, cf. haca the bar of a door, D. hek gate, Sw. h[aum]ck coop, rack, Dan. hekke manger, rack. Prob. akin to E. hook, and first used of something made of pieces fastened together. Cf. Heck, Hack a frame.]
- 1. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge. [1913 Webster]
- In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A flood gate; a sluice gate. --Ainsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A bedstead. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 5. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine. [1913 Webster]
- Booby hatch, Buttery hatch, Companion hatch, etc. See under Booby, Buttery, etc.
- To batten down the hatches (Naut.), to lay tarpaulins over them, and secure them with battens.
- To be under hatches, to be confined below in a vessel; to be under arrest, or in slavery, distress, etc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hatch'
From: GCIDE
- Hatch \Hatch\, v. t. To close with a hatch or hatches. [1913 Webster]
- 'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hatch'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- angle,
- archway,
- autolithograph,
- back door,
- barway,
- be a printmaker,
- be born,
- be gravid,
- be illegitimate,
- be knocked up,
- be pregnant,
- be with child,
- beget,
- blaze,
- blaze a trail,
- blemish,
- blotch,
- brand,
- breed,
- brew,
- bring forth,
- bring into being,
- brood,
- bulkhead,
- cabal,
- call into being,
- carriage entrance,
- carry,
- carry young,
- cartoon,
- carve,
- cause,
- cellar door,
- cellarway,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- character,
- charcoal,
- check,
- check off,
- chisel,
- cicatrize,
- clutch,
- coin,
- collude,
- color,
- come forth,
- complot,
- conceit,
- conceive,
- conceptualize,
- concoct,
- connive,
- conspire,
- contrive,
- cook up,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- countermine,
- counterplot,
- cover,
- crayon,
- crease,
- create,
- cribble,
- crosshatch,
- culture,
- cut,
- dapple,
- dash,
- dash off,
- daub,
- define,
- delimit,
- delineate,
- demarcate,
- depict,
- design,
- develop,
- devise,
- diagram,
- discolor,
- discover,
- doodle,
- door,
- doorjamb,
- doorpost,
- doorway,
- dot,
- draft,
- draw,
- dream up,
- enchase,
- engender,
- engineer,
- engrave,
- evolve,
- experience imaginatively,
- fabricate,
- fake,
- fancy,
- fantasize,
- farm,
- farrow,
- father,
- fatten,
- feed,
- fictionalize,
- finagle,
- finesse,
- fleck,
- forge,
- formulate,
- frame,
- frame up,
- freckle,
- French door,
- front door,
- fry,
- fudge,
- furrow,
- gash,
- gate,
- gatepost,
- gateway,
- generate,
- gestate,
- get,
- get up,
- give being to,
- give rise to,
- grave,
- groove,
- grow,
- hatch a plot,
- hatch up,
- hatchway,
- have birth,
- hoke up,
- ideate,
- imagine,
- impress,
- imprint,
- improvise,
- incise,
- incubate,
- induce,
- inscribe,
- intrigue,
- invent,
- issue forth,
- keep,
- lay a plot,
- limn,
- line,
- lintel,
- lithograph,
- litter,
- machinate,
- make,
- make a mark,
- make do with,
- make prints,
- make up,
- maneuver,
- manufacture,
- mark,
- mark off,
- mark out,
- mature,
- mint,
- mold,
- mottle,
- nest,
- nick,
- notch,
- nurture,
- occasion,
- operate,
- originate,
- paint,
- paint a picture,
- parent,
- pencil,
- pepper,
- picture,
- picturize,
- plan,
- plot,
- point,
- porch,
- portal,
- porte cochere,
- portray,
- postern,
- prick,
- print,
- procreate,
- produce,
- propylaeum,
- provoke,
- punch,
- punctuate,
- puncture,
- pylon,
- raise,
- ranch,
- rear,
- riddle,
- rig,
- run,
- scar,
- scarify,
- scheme,
- score,
- scotch,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- sculpture,
- scumble,
- scuttle,
- seal,
- seam,
- set,
- shade,
- shape,
- side door,
- sire,
- sit,
- sketch,
- spat,
- spawn,
- speck,
- speckle,
- splotch,
- spot,
- stain,
- stamp,
- stencil,
- stigmatize,
- stile,
- stipple,
- storm door,
- streak,
- striate,
- strike out,
- stripe,
- suppose,
- tattoo,
- think out,
- think up,
- threshold,
- tick,
- tick off,
- tint,
- tollgate,
- tool,
- trace,
- trap,
- trap door,
- trump up,
- turnpike,
- turnstile,
- underline,
- underscore,
- wangle,
- work up,
- young
Hatch, NM -- U.S. village in New Mexico
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Hatch, NM -- U.S. village in New Mexico
Population (2000) :
1673
Housing Units (2000) :
635
Land area (2000) :
3.097088 sq. miles (8.021422 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
3.097088 sq. miles (8.021422 sq. km)
FIPS code :
31820
Located within :
New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location :
32.664919 N, 107.158668 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
87937
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Hatch, UT -- U.S. town in Utah
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Hatch, UT -- U.S. town in Utah
Population (2000) :
127
Housing Units (2000) :
81
Land area (2000) :
0.269264 sq. miles (0.697390 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.269264 sq. miles (0.697390 sq. km)
FIPS code :
33760
Located within :
Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location :
37.650711 N, 112.435460 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.