Dictionary Definition
hatch
Noun
1 the production of young from an egg [syn:
hatching]
3 a movable barrier covering a hatchway
Verb
1 emerge from the eggs; "young birds, fish, and
reptiles hatch"
2 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,
concoct]
3 inlay with narrow strips or lines of a
different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of
decorating
4 draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel,
on metal, wood, or paper; "hatch the sheet"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /hætʃ/, /h
Extensive Definition
Hatch may refer
to:
Actions and objects
- Hatching, also called "cross-hatching", an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects using closely spaced parallel lines. Also it is used to create curvature and shape to drawn objects.
- The emergence of young from an egg; see Egg (biology)
- Trapdoor, also called a hatch, a door on a floor or ceiling
- A sluice gate
- Hatchback, an automobile design
Places
- Hatch, New Mexico, a village in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States
- Hatch, Utah, a town in Garfield County, Utah, United States
- Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant, in the US state of Georgia
People
- Annia Hatch, a Cuban-American gymnast, who competed at the 2004 Olympics
- Carl Hatch, a Democrat United States Senator from New Mexico, serving from 1933 until 1949
- David Hatch, (1939–2007), was involved in production and management at BBC Radio
- Edward Hatch, (1832-89), an American general and Indian fighter
- Edwin Hatch, an English theologian
- George Hatch, a Democratic politician who was mayor of Cincinnati from 1861 to 1863
- Harry C. Hatch, (1884-1946), a self-made millionaire industrialist from Prince Edward County, Ontario
- Hector Hatch, is a former Fijian sportsman, politician and civil servant
- Herschel H. Hatch (1837-1920), a U.S. Representative from Michigan
- Jack Hatch, the Iowa State Senator from the 33rd District
- John Porter Hatch, (1822-1901), an American soldier
- Mike Hatch, former attorney general of Minnesota
- Orrin Hatch, a Republican United States Senator from Utah, serving since 1977
- Richard Hatch (actor), an American actor
- Richard Hatch (reality TV), winner of the first American Survivor series and contestant on Survivor: All-Stars
- Sidney Hatch, (1883–1966), an American athlete who competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics
- Thom Hatch, an American author
- Tony Hatch, an English composer, songwriter, pianist, music arranger and producer
- Wilbur Hatch, (1902-1969), an American music composer
Legislation
- Hatch Act of 1887, United States legislation which authorized federal funding for agricultural experiment stations
- Hatch Act of 1939, United States legislation prohibited civil servants from engaging in partisan political activity
Companies
- Hatch Ltd, an engineering and development consulting company based in Mississauga, Canada
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hatch in French:
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hatch in Korean:
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
French door, 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, 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