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孵化,舱口孵,孵出,策划孵化
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Hatch \Hatch\, n.
1. The act of hatching.
2. Development; disclosure; discovery. --Shak.
3. The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a
brood.
Hatch \Hatch\, v. i.
To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the
egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
Hatch \Hatch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hatched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hatching}.] [F. hacher to chop, hack. See {Hash}.]
1. To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and
engraving. See {Hatching}.
Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.
--Chapman.
Those hatching strokes of the pencil. --Dryden.
2. To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep. [Obs.]
His weapon hatched in blood. --Beau. & Fl.
Hatch \Hatch\, v. t. [OE. hacchen, hetchen; akin to G. hecken,
Dan. hekke; cf. MHG. hagen bull; perh. akin to E. hatch a
half door, and orig. meaning, to produce under a hatch. ???.]
1. To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation,
or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as,
the young when hatched. --Paley.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them
not. --Jer. xvii.
11.
For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by
keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the
husbandmen] bring life into them and hatch them.
--Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
2. To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into
being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch
mischief; to hatch heresy. --Hooker.
Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness.
--Tennyson.
Hatch \Hatch\, n. [OE. hacche, AS. h[ae]c, cf. haca the bar of a
door, D. hek gate, Sw. h["a]ck coop, rack, Dan. hekke manger,
rack. Prob. akin to E. hook, and first used of something made
of pieces fastened together. Cf. {Heck}, {Hack} a frame.]
1. A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set
with spikes on the upper edge.
In at the window, or else o'er the hatch. --Shak.
2. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
3. A flood gate; a a sluice gate. --Ainsworth.
4. A bedstead. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
5. An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse
which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway;
also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in
closing such an opening.
6. (Mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
{Booby hatch}, {Buttery hatch}, {Companion hatch}, etc. See
under {Booby}, {Buttery}, etc.
{To batten down the hatches} (Naut.), to lay tarpaulins over
them, and secure them with battens.
{To be under hatches}, to be confined below in a vessel; to
be under arrest, or in slavery, distress, etc.
Hatch \Hatch\, v. t.
To close with a hatch or hatches.
'T were not amiss to keep our door hatched. --Shak.
资料来源 : WordNet®
hatch
n 1: the production of young from an egg [syn: {hatching}]
2: shading consisting of multiple crossing lines [syn: {hatching},
{crosshatch}, {hachure}]
3: a movable barrier covering a hatchway
v 1: emerge from the eggs; "young birds, fish, and reptiles
hatch"
2: devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich
quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece
of software" [syn: {think up}, {think of}, {dream up}, {concoct}]
3: inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance
such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
4: draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal,
wood, or paper; "hatch the sheet"
5: sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
[syn: {brood}, {cover}, {incubate}]