1. A door or opening, especially in a floor, ceiling, or vehicle
   "They climbed through the escape hatch"
    
2. An entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship
   "The sailors descended through the hatch to the lower deck";
   - hatchway, opening, scuttle
    
3. A sloping rear car door that is lifted to open
   "He struggled to close the heavily loaded hatch door";
   - hatchback, hatchback door, liftgate [US]
    
4. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
   "The artist used hatch marks to create depth in the drawing";
   - hatching, crosshatch, hachure
    
5. A group of eggs or newly hatched animals
   "The second hatch of chicks was smaller than the first"
    
6. The production of young from an egg
   "The hatch of sea turtle eggs on the beach was a sight to behold";
   - hatching

1. Emerge from the egg
   "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"
    
2. Sit on (eggs)
   "The hen hatched the eggs for three weeks";
   - brood, cover, incubate
    
3. Devise or invent
   "He hatched a plan to get rich quickly";
   - think up, think of, dream up, concoct, hit on
    
4. Draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
   "hatch the sheet"
    
5. Inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
   "The jeweller hatched the watch face with gold lines"

Derived forms: hatching, hatched, hatches

Type of: be born, birth, birthing, car door, create by mental act, create mentally, entrance, entranceway, entrée, entry, entryway, giving birth, inlay, line, movable barrier, multiply, parturition, procreate, reproduce, shading

Encyclopedia: Hatch, New Mexico