A Quick and Simple Dictionary

hatch

1. Noun.  A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
2. Noun.  A trapdoor.
3. Noun.  An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items.
4. Noun.  A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
5. Noun.  A narrow passageway between the decks of a ship or submarine.
6. Noun.  (slang) A gullet.
7. Verb.  (intransitive) (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
8. Verb.  (intransitive) (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
10. Verb.  (transitive) To devise. (qualifier, hatch a plan) .
11. Noun.  (context, poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
12. Noun.  (Often as ''Mayfly hatch'') The phenomenon, lasting 1-2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location (to mate, having reached maturity).
13. Noun.  (informal) As in the phrase "'''hatched''', matched, and dispatched." A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
14. Verb.  (transitive) To shade an area of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines, particularly with lines which cross each other: '''cross-hatch'''.