Incubation vs Hatch - What's the difference?
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Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.
(pathology) The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
(chemistry) A period of little reaction which is followed by more rapid reaction.
Sleeping in a temple or other holy place in order to have oracular dreams.
* 1978 , Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine , Routledge 1978, p. 144:
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
As a noun incubation
is sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.As a proper noun hatch is
.incubation
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Noun
(en noun)- Incubation in the vicinity of burial places, cremation grounds, holy wells and sacred streams was common. The ancient Hebrews visited vaults or slept among tombs to get meaningful dreams.
Derived terms
* incubation periodhatch
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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.
