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