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Flap vs Hatch - What's the difference?

flap | hatch |

As a noun flap

is anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.

As a verb flap

is to move (something broad and loose) back and forth.

As a proper noun hatch is

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flap

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • a cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx
  • *
  • A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
  • An upset, stir, scandal or controversy
  • The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
  • * , chapter=4
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
  • A disease in the lips of horses.
  • (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
  • (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
  • (slang) The female genitals.

    • Synonyms

    * (upset)

    See also

    * ("flap" on Wikipedia) * * lappet

    Verb

    (flapp)
  • To move (something broad and loose) back and forth.
    • The crow slowly flapped its wings.
  • *
  • To move loosely back and forth.
    • The flag flapped in the breeze.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 29 , author=Tom Rostance , title=Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber flapped at his first Delap throw but was given a soft free-kick by referee Antony Gautier.}}

    Derived terms

    * cat flap * flapper * unflappable ----

    hatch

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) hache, from (etyl) ‘hedge’. More at hedge.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
  • A trapdoor.
  • An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A .
    • The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch .
  • A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
  • An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.
  • (slang) A gullet.
  • A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
  • A floodgate; a sluice gate.
    • (Ainsworth)
  • (Scotland) A bedstead.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
    • Derived terms
    * down the hatch * hatchwise

    Verb

  • To close with a hatch or hatches.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 'Twere not amiss to keep our door hatched .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) hacchen ‘to propagate’, cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish ; akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “hecken” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbucher Vertrag, 2005).

    Verb

    (es)
  • (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
  • (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
  • To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
  • To devise.
    • to hatch''' a plan or a plot; to '''hatch mischief or heresy
    Derived terms
    * hatchling
    References

    Noun

    (head)
  • The act of hatching.
  • Development; disclosure; discovery.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
    • These pullets are from an April hatch .
  • The phenomenon, lasting 1-2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
  • * Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947', Charles K. Fox, ''Redistribution of the Green Drake'', '''1997 , Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), ''Limestone Legends , page 104,
    • The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago.
  • * 2004 , Ed Engle, Fishing Small Flies , page 118,
    • The major application of the parachute is for mayfly hatches', but it's also useful for midge ' hatches .
  • * 2007 , John Shewey, On the Fly Guide to the Northwest , page 70,
    • Many years the mayfly hatch' begins by the time the lake opens in April. Otherwise, expect strong '''hatches''' by mid-May. The ' hatches continue through midsummer.
  • (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
  • * Dryden
    • Those hatching strokes of the pencil.
  • * Chapman
    • Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched .
  • (obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • His weapon hatched in blood.

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