Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Definitioner

Substantiv

1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
2. The act of hatching.
3. Development; disclosure; discovery.
4. A trapdoor.
5. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
6. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
7. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
8. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1-2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
9. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.
10. (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."
11. (slang) A gullet.
12. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
13. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
14. (Scotland) A bedstead.
15. (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

Verb

1. (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
2. (intransitive) (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
3. (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
5. (intransitive) (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
6. (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
7. (transitive) To devise.