Meaning

7 senses
  1. (transitive)To close with a hatch or hatches.

  2. (intransitive)To emerge from an egg.

    These three chicks hatched yesterday morning.

    schlüpfen

    вылупля́тьсяvylupljátʹsja, вы́лупитьсяvýlupitʹsja

    вилу́плюватисяvylúpljuvatysja, ви́лупитисяvýlupytysja

    emerge from the eggs

  3. (intransitive)To break open when a young animal emerges from it.

    She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching.

    ausschlüpfen

    ло́патьсяlópatʹsja, ло́пнутьlópnutʹ

  4. (transitive)To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.

    I'm hatching this mysterious egg I found in the forest.

    brüten, ausbrüten

    выси́живатьvysíživatʹ, вы́сидетьvýsidetʹ, выводи́тьvyvodítʹ

    sit on (eggs)

  5. (transitive)To devise (a plot or scheme).

    World domination was only one of the evil schemes he had hatched over the years.

    ausbrüten, hecken

    разраба́тыватьrazrabátyvatʹ, разрабо́татьrazrabótatʹ, замышля́тьzamyšljátʹ

    devise or invent

  6. (transitive)To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).

  7. (obsolete, transitive)To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

Examples

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

    Не хвали дня до вечора. — hectorvk

    ruЦыплят по осени считают. — salikh

    deMan soll den Tag nicht vor dem Abend loben. — al_ex_an_der

  2. Tom tried to open the hatch.

  3. The eggs are starting to hatch.

  4. Tom helped me open the hatch.

  5. We wondered if the eggs would hatch.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
1. to emerge from an egg:
Русский
By meaning 4
1. to emerge from an egg:
2. of an egg, to break open:
3. to incubate eggs:
4. to devise:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
1. to emerge from an egg:
2. of an egg, to break open:
3. to incubate eggs:
4. to devise:

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.

From Middle French hacher (“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”), from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hakōn, *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hack”). More at hack.

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Forms

hatches, hatching, hatched, hatched
Base formhatch · to hatch
3rd person singularhatches
Present participlehatching
Past simplehatched
Past participlehatched

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhatch
he, she, ithatches

Past simpleLesson

all personshatched

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hatched
he, she, ithas hatched

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hatch

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

14 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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