Meaning of hatch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
3. The act of hatching.
4. A trapdoor.
5. Development; disclosure; discovery.
   figuratively
6. Drink up. Often used as a toast.
7. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
8. A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
9. To shade by drawing or etching fine parallel or crossed lines on.
10. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
11. The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
    often
12. A fine line used in hatching.
13. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
14. A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
    informal
15. down the hatch, (used as a toast.)
16. A gullet.
    slang
17. (the door or cover of) an opening in a wall, floor, ship's deck etc. There are two hatches between the kitchen and dining-room for serving food. luik; skeepsluik فَتْحَة في حائِط بين غُرْفَتَيْن отвор portinhola servírovací okénko die Durchreiche luge; lem άνοιγμαventanilla luuk دريچه luukku passe-plats אֶשנָב הַגָשָה तल में बना द्वार, विपाट द्वार otvor, vratašca lejáró; tálalóablak pintu op, lúga, dyr portello, mezza porta* 連絡口 (배의 갑판에 있는) 해치, 창구(艙口) anga, liukas lūka hac luikluke, lemotwór,...
    etc
18. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
19. an opening, especially in a ship's deck. luikgat فتْحَة في سَطْح السَّفينَه стълбище от палубата escotilha palubní jícen die Luke luge καταπακτήescotilla laevaluuk دریچه kulkuaukko écoutille כַּוָוה विपाट मार्ग grotlo (palubni otvor za krcanje) lejáró (hajón) lubang palka lestarop, lúgugat boccaporto 昇降口 (갑판의) 승강구 liukas lūka lubang hac luikluke, lemluk كړكۍ ( د بيړۍ په غولى يا بام كى چه د ماتو د كښته پورته دپاره وى escotilha tambuchi люк palubný otvor odprtina (v ladijskem krovu) šuber skepp...
    especially
20. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
21. An opening, as in the deck of a ship, in the roof or floor of a building, or in an aircraft.
22. A bedstead.
    Scotland
23. A door that opens upward on the rear of an automobile; a hatchback.
24. An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
25. A floodgate.
26. To emerge from an egg or other structure that surrounds and protects an embryo.

Equivalents

Examples

“Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground.”

“The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.”

“A service hatch with sliding shutter is situated at the end of the kitchen next to the dining compartment.”

“A surprising number of incidents is due to roof hatches being left loose or in the raised position when locomotives return to service after maintenance. On one occasion, a 25kV overhead line was damaged by an open hatch.”

“The farmers lower down the brook pull up the hatches to let the flood pass.”

“It consisted of a rude wooden stool , and still ruder hatch or bed-frame”

“There's ſomething in his ſoule? / O'er which his Melancholly ſits on brood, / And I do doubt the hatch, and the diſcloſe / Will be ſome danger, which to preuent / I haue in quicke determination”

“These pullets are from an April hatch.”

“a. 1947, Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947, Charles K. Fox, Redistribution of the Green Drake, 1997, Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), Limestone Legends, page 104, The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago.”

“The major application of the parachute is for mayfly hatches, but it's also useful for midge hatches.”

“Many years the mayfly hatch begins by the time the lake opens in April. Otherwise, expect strong hatches by mid-May. The hatches continue through midsummer.”

“hatch, match, and dispatch”

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