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Hatching vs Crosshatching - What's the difference?

hatching | crosshatching |

As nouns the difference between hatching and crosshatching

is that hatching is a method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines while crosshatching is a method of showing shading by means of multiple small lines that intersect.

As verbs the difference between hatching and crosshatching

is that hatching is present participle of lang=en while crosshatching is present participle of lang=en.

hatching

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
  • A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
    • We got a good hatching from the Swallowtail eggs.
  • The act of an egg hatching, eclosion

    • Verb

    (head)

    • crosshatching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (arts) A method of showing shading by means of multiple small lines that intersect.
  • A method of indicating terrain on a map by using the same technique.
    • English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs