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hatch
  1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
  2. A trapdoor.
  3. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
  4. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
  5. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.
  6. (slang) A gullet.
  7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
  8. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
  9. (Scotland) A bedstead.
  10. (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “The young lady sitting there didn't see the two soldiers enter through the hatch as Marcus had blocked her view.”
hatch
  1. The act of hatching.
  2. Development; disclosure; discovery.
  3. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
  4. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
  5. (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The young lady sitting there didn't see the two soldiers enter through the hatch as Marcus had blocked her view.”
hatching
hatchwork
  1. (art) Crosshatching; ornamentation using a crosshatch pattern
  2. (uncountable, shipping) The apparatus around the hatches of a vessel, particularly the cargo hatch
hatchability
  1. (of an egg) The state of being likely to hatch; a measure of that ability
  2. (of a bird etc) The state of being able to produce hatchable eggs; a measure of that ability
  3. Examples:
    1. “If female broiler breeders are fed ad libitum then egg production and hatchability are poor.”
      “By the hatchability of eggs, we then mean the percentage of eggs set that hatch chicks able to walk and eat.”
      “Eggs set under hens usually give a hatchability of 50 per cent.”
hatcher
  1. One who hatches (transitive senses)
  2. One who hatches (intransitive senses)
  3. Examples:
    1. “It's done real quickly, and the birds are put in a hatcher, where they dry off real quick.”
      “Fitzpatrick and hatcher, and old Bill Williams, well-known leaders of trapping parties, soon arrived with their bands.”
      “Empowering Women in the Workplace For hatcher and P.A.C.E. the results have already been encouraging.”
hatchery
  1. A facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish or poultry.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It was found that the loss of eggs was not due to bad water or any defective method of handling the eggs in the hatchery, but due to the nonfertilization of the eggs.”
      “Most Japanese oysters are maricultured, which means they are actually born in a hatchery where egg and sperm are artificially combined.”
      “After the tiny oysters have grown to a certain size, they are ready to be removed from the hatchery.”
hatchboat
  1. (nautical) A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches, chiefly used in fishing.
hatchway
  1. A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Other small huts on the deck cover a hatchway below decks and the rigging store.”
      “They sat on the open deck, using a battened hatchway as a table, and feasted on fresh produce purchased on the quay.”
      “She was now approaching the bent wreckage of a hatchway door, so she slowed and maneuvered carefully around it.”
hatchman
  1. A prison guard charged with checking on the prisoner by looking through the hatch.
hatchboats
  1. plural of hatchboat
hatchworks
  1. plural of hatchwork
hatchmen
  1. plural of hatchman
hatchings
hatchways
  1. plural of hatchway
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Soldiers began to emerge from the swollen hatchways on the surface like ants pouring forth from their hill.”
      “The bulkheads were low and sections were separated with hatchways that sat about eight inches above the floor.”
      “Those hatchways weren't really meant for human access, but she was a little double-jointed so she'd been able to wriggle up and into the ship without too much problem.”
hatcheries
  1. plural of hatchery
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The second block is a windowless building containing various controlled environments for animals, fly breeding and hatcheries.”
      “Workers at both hatcheries keep the plants healthy and repot the tillers, the product of asexual reproduction, which grow into mature plants.”
      “Creation of artificial hatcheries and placing restraining cages over nests proved counter-productive.”
hatchers
  1. plural of hatcher
hatches
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