Hatch vs Intrigue - What's the difference?
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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 .
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.
(Scotland) A bedstead.
(mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
To close with a hatch or hatches.
* Shakespeare
(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.
The act of hatching.
Development; disclosure; discovery.
(poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
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 ,
* 2004 , Ed Engle, Fishing Small Flies ,
* 2007 , John Shewey, On the Fly Guide to the Northwest ,
(informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."
To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
* Dryden
* Chapman
(obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
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To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
* Dr. J. Scott
As a proper noun hatch
is .As a verb intrigue is
.hatch
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) hache, from (etyl) ‘hedge’. More at hedge.Noun
(es)- The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch .
- (Ainsworth)
- (Sir Walter Scott)
Derived terms
* down the hatch * hatchwiseVerb
- '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)- to hatch''' a plan or a plot; to '''hatch mischief or heresy
Derived terms
* hatchlingReferences
Noun
(head)- (Shakespeare)
- These pullets are from an April hatch .
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- The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago.
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- The major application of the parachute is for mayfly hatches', but it's also useful for midge ' hatches .
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- 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.
Etymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
(es)- Those hatching strokes of the pencil.
- Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched .
- His weapon hatched in blood.
External links
intrigue
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Alternative forms
* entrigueNoun
(en noun)Verb
(intrigu)citation, passage=Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.}}
- How doth it [sin] perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!