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Hatching vs Patching - What's the difference?

hatching | patching |

As nouns the difference between hatching and patching

is that hatching is a method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines while patching is the act of one who patches.

As verbs the difference between hatching and patching

is that hatching is while patching is .

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)

    • patching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who patches.
  • * 1766 , Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
    • all this is not neatness, but frippery. These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings , will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.

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