Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Fine lines used in graphic arts to show shading.
- noun The process of decorating with such lines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In drawing, engraving, etc., the art of disposing lines, especially parallel lines, whether curved, straight, or wavy, so as to give the effect of shading, according to the shape and character of the object represented.
- noun A line made for this purpose, or such lines collectively.
- noun Also hachure, hatchure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also
crosshatching .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
- noun A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
- noun The act of an
egg hatching ,eclosion - verb Present participle of
hatch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the production of young from an egg
- noun shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
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Examples
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Rest of the year best to figure out what is hatching from the charts or stop into Gates 'or the Old AuSable and ask.
I have a cabin in Grayling, and flyfish the Au Sable River. 2009
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Rest of the year best to figure out what is hatching from the charts or stop into Gates 'or the Old AuSable and ask.
I have a cabin in Grayling, and flyfish the Au Sable River. 2009
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"Myers will play British Gen. Ed Fenech, a military mastermind who takes part in hatching a plot to wipe out Nazi leaders," writes the trade.
Mike Myers Joins Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Bastards’…Er, Is Anyone Else Concerned? » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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In Pennsylvania spring creeks, you can't get a brown to take a fly unless it perfectly matches the main hatching insects.
Why Do Fish Eat Indicators? Tim Romano 2008
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Economic stability is the only ruling ethic and people are born in hatching factories, where they've been preordained from the embryo to be
My Own Private Orwell: Why the high priest of dystopia still matters 2003
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Cracking a nut open that way is sometimes called hatching, and that is how I come by the name of Nuthatch.
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I have been sitting here upon ten eggs for three weeks past, and, of course, have another week to be confined; but then the thoughts of the pleasure I shall have in hatching and guiding my young ones to the water, is ample payment for all my pains.
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I guess the hatching is your background image or something, because it’s still visible on the left-hand side.
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For this new hatching, which is to turn a grub into a Bee, for this general remodelling, the delicacy of which demands absolute repose, all the precautions that make for safety have been taken.
The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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But I like the idea of hatching out our own eggs, and he protected his girls by attacking a hawk that swooped down to grab one of the hens, so we'll keep him around!
GHibbs commented on the word hatching
My adjectival use: 'You must not help a hatching bird escape from its egg.'
August 22, 2011