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1.NounA horizontal door in a floor or ceiling."Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground."
2.NounA trapdoor.
3.NounAn opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through."The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch."
4.NounA small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
5.NounAn opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
6.NounA gullet.
7.NounA frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
8.NounA floodgate; a sluice gate.
9.NounA bedstead.
10.NounAn opening into, or in search of, a mine.
11.VerbTo close with a hatch or hatches.
12.VerbTo emerge from an egg."These three chicks hatched yesterday morning."
13.VerbTo break open when a young animal emerges from it."She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching."
14.VerbTo incubate eggs; to cause to hatch."I'm hatching this mysterious egg I found in the forest."
15.VerbTo devise (a plot or scheme)."World domination was only one of the evil schemes he had hatched over the years."
16.Verb↑ Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, s.v. “hecken” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005).
17.NounThe act of hatching.
18.NounDevelopment; disclosure; discovery.
19.NounA group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time."These pullets are from an April hatch."
20.NounThe phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
21.NounA birth, the birth records (in the newspaper)."hatch, match, and dispatch"
22.VerbTo shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
23.VerbTo cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.