Dictionary Entry
hatch
hatch is a 5-letter English word with 23 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 12 · 23 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
- 2transitive verb
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5intransitive verb
To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
- 6noun
The act of hatching.
- 7noun
Development; disclosure; discovery.
- 8noun
The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
- 9noun
A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
- 10noun
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- 11noun
A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
- 12noun
A bedstead.
- 13noun
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.
- 14noun
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- 15transitive verb
To close with a hatch or hatches.
- 16noun
a movable barrier covering a hatchway
- 17noun
shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
Synonyms
- 18noun
the production of young from an egg
Synonyms
- 19verb
sit on (eggs)
"Birds brood"
"The female covers the eggs"
- 20verb
emerge from the eggs
"young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"
- 21verb
draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
"hatch the sheet"
- 22verb
devise or invent
"He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"
"no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"
Synonyms
- 23verb
inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
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