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

1. transitive verb. To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
2. transitive verb. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
3. transitive 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.
4. transitive 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.
5. intransitive verb. To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
6. noun. The act of hatching.
7. noun. Development; disclosure; discovery.
8. noun. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
9. noun. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
10. noun. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
11. noun. A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
12. noun. A bedstead.
13. noun. 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.
14. noun. An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
15. transitive verb. To close with a hatch or hatches.
16. noun. a movable barrier covering a hatchway
17. noun. shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

    Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatching

18. noun. the production of young from an egg

    Synonyms: hatching

19. verb. sit on (eggs)

    "Birds brood"

    "The female covers the eggs"

    Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate

20. verb. emerge from the eggs

    "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"

21. verb. draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper

    "hatch the sheet"

22. 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"

    Synonyms: concoct

23. verb. inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating

Synonyms

crosshatch, hachure, hatching, brood, cover, incubate, concoct

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hatch:

hacht

Common word forms

hatched, hatcher, hatches, hatching, hatchable, hatchment

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