I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
booby hatch
eggs hatch (= break open to allow the baby out )
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The eggs hatch in 26 days.
hatch a plot (= make one )
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They have admitted hatching a plot to kill the president.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
newly
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Newly hatched wood storks cry for food, sending parents to hunt for newly plentiful minnows.
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Newly hatched birds were prepared to accept practically anything as their parent.
■ NOUN
chick
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It must time the laying of its eggs so that its chicks hatch when caterpillars are most abundant, and most palatable.
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Once he put a broody hen on a clutch of eggs and ten little chicks hatched out.
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As the chicks hatched , they were moved into an out-building and then, when fully fledged, up to the pool.
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Nor can the nest accommodate the chick when it hatches .
egg
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It must time the laying of its eggs so that its chicks hatch when caterpillars are most abundant, and most palatable.
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The well-wrapped single egg then hatches , and the larva eats its home as its parent leaves.
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A few live in huge colonies on volcanoes, their eggs hatched by the earth's heat.
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Breakfast consisted of coffee the texture of loose sand, pineapple slices, and eggs which would have hatched the next day.
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Once the eggs have hatched all surplus rockwork can be removed, to ensure that fry do not get trapped under it.
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In some cases, more than 90 percent of the eggs hatching from clutches were females.
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Most pairs in Britain lay in the middle two weeks of May, with the eggs hatching 12 or 13 days later.
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The warm eggs hatch as larger babies than the cool ones.
plan
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And so the Tortoise now began To hatch a very subtle plan .
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Meanwhile Mrs hatched her plans , abetted by the man of the world.
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Police are probing allegations that Sage, 16, hatched a bizarre plan to kill his dad's handyman.
plot
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The court heard that a desperate financial crisis and debts of more than £40,000 drove Shooter to hatch his unsuccessful plot .
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One police source said Petrovits hatched the plot to take the child before he was born.
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The Witch King of Naggaroth hatched a new plot .
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Police believe this was when he hatched his plot to kill.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Millions of mosquito eggs will have hatched out by May.
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The eggs should hatch any day now.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All three seeds hatch the same adult.
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Breeze, who had hatched a good many herself, quickened her steps to a run, for her two friends were waiting.
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He has, in addition, hatched his own solution to the challenge of balancing love and work.
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Most pairs in Britain lay in the middle two weeks of May, with the eggs hatching 12 or 13 days later.
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The court heard that a desperate financial crisis and debts of more than £40,000 drove Shooter to hatch his unsuccessful plot.
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The egg is hatched without any direct help from either parent.
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The well-wrapped single egg then hatches, and the larva eats its home as its parent leaves.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
escape
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Taking hold of a strong branch, he finally cleared the escape hatch with his legs and dropped to the ground.
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Unlike the cecropia and promethea moths, however, these two do not have built-in escape hatches for the emerging adults.
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Some experts suggested that the escape hatch might have been damaged.
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There was also an escape hatch in the inner hard cocoon.
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Although normally kept shut, there is an escape hatch for the after cabin in each of the cockpit seats.
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The two sides were now on a collision course: Khrushchev could not allow West Berlin to remain as an escape hatch .
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Another escape hatch that Olson slams shut upon us is the device of distinguishing between Pound-the-man and Pound-the-poet.
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Even more important, birth control has a crucial escape hatch .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
batten down the hatches
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Businesses are focused on survival - everyone's battening down the hatches.
don't count your chickens (before they're hatched)
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Getting an Oscar would be wonderful, but I think it's too early to count my chickens.
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If you want to go on a date sometime, you can ask me. But don't count your chickens.
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You'll probably get the job, but don't count your chickens just yet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The astronauts were fixing a hatch aboard the Mir space station.
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The oil spill will affect next spring's hatch .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Did some one forget to close the hatch ?
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Its designer shows how it can be fitted through a small kayak hatch in its assembled state.
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Kalchu went to the chicken coop and lifted the hatch .
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She had fallen from the hatch .
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The glassy rear hatch opens wide and the boot has low loading lip.