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Generate is a related term of hatch.


As a verb generate

is to bring into being; give rise to.

As a proper noun hatch is

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generate

English

Verb

(generat)
  • To bring into being; give rise to.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 9, author=Jonathan Wilson, work=the Guardian
    • , title= Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao , passage=In the last 20 minutes Athletic began to generate the sort of pressure of which they are capable, but by then it was far too late: the game had begun to slip away from them as early as the seventh minute.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= T time , passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
  • To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
  • To procreate, beget.
  • (mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
  • To appear or occur; be generated.
  • * 1883 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Three Strangers)
    • Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.

    Related terms

    * genus * generation * generative * generable * generic * general * degenerate

    Synonyms

    * (to bring into being) create

    Antonyms

    * (to bring into being) annihilate, extinguish * (to produce as a result of a chemical or physical process) erase

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    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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