hatch
noun
[ hatʃ ]
• a door in an aircraft, spacecraft, or submarine.
• the rear door of a hatchback car.
• "a spare wheel mounted on the rear hatch"
• short for hatchback.
Origin:
Old English hæcc (denoting the lower half of a divided door), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hek ‘paling, screen’.
hatch
verb
• (of an egg) open and produce a young animal.
• "eggs need to be put in a warm place to hatch"
• conspire to devise (a plot or plan).
• "the little plot that you and Sylvia hatched up last night"
Similar:
devise,
conceive,
contrive,
concoct,
brew,
invent,
plan,
design,
formulate,
think up,
make up,
dream up,
trump up,
put together,
cook up,
hatch
noun
• a newly hatched brood.
• "a hatch of mayflies"
Origin:
Middle English hacche ; related to Swedish häcka and Danish hække .
hatch
verb
• (in fine art and technical drawing) shade (an area) with closely drawn parallel lines.
• "the unused space has been hatched with lines"
Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘inlay with strips of metal’): from Old French hacher, from hache (see hatchet).
