transcription, транскрипция: [ hætʃ ]
( hatches, hatching, hatched)
1.
When a baby bird, insect, or other animal hatches , or when it is hatched , it comes out of its egg by breaking the shell.
As soon as the two chicks hatch, they leave the nest burrow...
The young disappeared soon after they were hatched.
VERB : V , be V-ed
2.
When an egg hatches or when a bird, insect, or other animal hatches an egg, the egg breaks open and a baby comes out.
The eggs hatch after a week or ten days...
During these periods the birds will lie on the cage floor as if trying to lay or hatch eggs.
VERB : V , V n
3.
If you hatch a plot or a scheme, you think of it and work it out.
He has accused opposition parties of hatching a plot to assassinate the Pope.
VERB : V n
4.
A hatch is an opening in the deck of a ship, through which people or cargo can go. You can also refer to the door of this opening as a hatch .
He stuck his head up through the hatch...
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5.
A hatch is an opening in a ceiling or a wall, especially between a kitchen and a dining room, which you can pass something such as food through. ( mainly BRIT )
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6.
If someone battens down the hatches , they prepare themselves so that they will be able to survive a coming difficulty or crisis.
Many firms are battening down the hatches and preparing to ride out the storm.
PHRASE : V inflects