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Latching vs Hatching - What's the difference?

latching | hatching |

As verbs the difference between latching and hatching

is that latching is while hatching is .

As nouns the difference between latching and hatching

is that latching is (nautical) a loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail while hatching is a method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.

As an adjective latching

is of something that es.

latching

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • Of something that es.
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    • , author=(Henry Petroski) , title=Opening Doors , volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3 , magazine= citation , passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail.

    • 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)