Meaning

15 senses
  1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.

    Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground.

    Luke

    люкljuk, лазlaz

    люкljuk

  2. A trapdoor.

  3. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.

    The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.

    Durchreiche

    люкljuk

    люкljuk

  4. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.

    люкljuk, лазlaz, лазе́йкаlazéjka

    люкljuk

  5. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine

    шлюзšljuz

  6. (slang)A gullet.

  7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.

  8. A floodgate; a sluice gate.

  9. (Scotland)A bedstead.

  10. An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

  11. The act of hatching.

  12. (figuratively)Development; disclosure; discovery.

More definitions
  • a movable barrier covering a hatchway
  • shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
  • the production of young from an egg
  • a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open

Examples

104 sentences
  1. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

    Не хвали дня до вечора.

    ruЦыплят по осени считают.

    deMan soll den Tag nicht vor dem Abend loben.

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  2. Tom tried to open the hatch.

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  3. The eggs are starting to hatch.

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  4. Tom helped me open the hatch.

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  5. We wondered if the eggs would hatch.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
1. horizontal door:
Русский
By meaning 4
1. horizontal door:
4. small door provided for access for maintenance:
5. an opening through the deck of a ship or submarine:
birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
1. horizontal door:
3. opening for serving food:

Origin

From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju

From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.

From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English *hæċċan, āhaċċian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną.

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Forms

plural: hatches
Singularhatch
Pluralhatches

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

16 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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