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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 non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As a proper noun hatch
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.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.
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Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.