hatch

• brood
• door
• double door
• dutch door
• french door
• gate
• incubate
• lattice
• lay
• portal
• portcullis
• postern
• revolving door
• set
• sit
• spawn
• storm door
• trapdoor
• wicket

• noun
  1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
  2. A trapdoor.
  3. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
  4. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
  5. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.
  6. A gullet.
  7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
  8. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
  9. A bedstead.
  10. An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
  11. The act of hatching.
  12. Development; disclosure; discovery.
  13. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
  14. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
  15. A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched.".
• verb
  1. To close with a hatch or hatches.
  2. (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
  3. (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
  4. To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
  5. To devise.
  6. To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
  7. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

• The bird began to hatch after three weeks of incubation.
• He tried to hatch a plan to surprise his friend.
• We watched the chick hatch from its egg.
• The criminals attempted to hatch a scheme to rob the bank.
• She lifted the hatch to check the engine compartment.

fabricate

machinate

quarterback

fake

laid

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