Hatching

  

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Hatching

Definition: Hatching

Hatching

Adjective

1. Good at incubating eggs especially a fowl kept for that purpose; "a brood hen".

Noun

1. The production of young from an egg.

2. Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hatching" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Hatching \Hatch"ing\, noun. [See 1st Hatch.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Hatching

DomainDefinition

Mining

A. Brist. An underground way or self-acting inclined plane, in a thin seam of coal, extending from 60 to 80 yd (55 to 73 m) to the rise. (references)

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Synonyms: Hatching

Synonyms: brood (adj), brooding (adj), crosshatch (n), hachure (n), hatch (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hatching

English words defined with "hatching": autosexingEccaleobion, embryonal, embryonicHatcherlarvanidicolous, nidifugousTritovum. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hatching": californian incubator, chicken fancierhatchery helper, Hatching successincubator helper, IncubatorsLABORER, POULTRY HATCHERYMartin's Running FootmanNest successPOULTRY BREEDER, pullorum disease of chicksscreen shape-up, SUPERVISOR, GAME FARMwhite diarrhoea of chicks. (references)
Etymologies containing "hatching": hachure. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hatching

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Two Hours After Hatching (1899)

Eggs Hatching (1899)

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Commercial Usage: Hatching

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chicken Run: Hatching the Movie (reference)

  • Hatching (reference)

  • Hatching a Plan (reference)

  • Hatching Magic (reference)

  • Parrot Incubation Procedures: A Methodical Guide to Incubation, Hatching, and Problem Hatches for the Aviculturist (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Hatching

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Photo Album: Hatching

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Chicks hatching. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Port side of main deck of FISH-HAWK, showing portion of hatching machinery. In: "Report on the Construction and Work in 1880 of United States Fish Commission Steamer FISH-HAWK", by Lieutenant Zera Luther Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IX. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. Plate II, p. 53. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Hatching cylinders, on port side of FISH-HAWK. In: "Report on the Construction and Work in 1880 of United States Fish Commission Steamer FISH-HAWK", by Lieutenant Zera Luther Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IX. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. Plate III, p. 53. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Paraphernalia used in fish hatching operations. In: "Report on the Construction and Work in 1880 of United States Fish Commission Steamer FISH-HAWK", by Lieutenant Zera Luther Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IX. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. Plate IV, p. 53. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Chicks hatching. Credit: USDA.

Hatching something?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Uncle Sam's hand reaching to grab potential soldiers hatching from eggs. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hatching

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Nymphs mature into adults about 7 days after hatching. (references)

Economic History

Trinidad

TT breeders import approximately 8,000 cases of hatching eggs per month. (references)

Nicaragua

Poultry and Livestock Genetics: In 2000, U.S. exports of hatching eggs to Nicaragua reached $4.3 million, compared to $2.7 million the previous year. (references)

Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago is nearly self-sufficient in poultry production, but imports a large number of baby chicks and hatching eggs from the U.S. Producers prefer U.S. chicks, because they are stronger and more resistant to disease than locally produced chicks. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

Special health certificates, stamped by the competent authorities of the country of origin, are required for the import of horses, bovine animals, farm animals, certain domestic animals, bees and eggs for hatching, as well as for meat, game, seafood, beeswax and comb honey. (references)

Bangladesh

Other items completely banned on either religious/social/health grounds or on economic grounds in the case of textile products that compete directly with locally produced items, including: live pigs, pig and poultry fat, eggs (except hatching eggs), poppy seeds and dried posto dana, marijuana, opium, tendu leaves, lard, lard and tallow oil, solid or semi-solid palm oil, raw sugar, un-denatured ethyl alcohol (80.0% or higher) and other spirits denatured of any strength, wine, artificial mustard oil, selected petroleum products, woven fabrics of silk or silk waste, pig hair, some kinds of cloth, selected insecticides, nylon and polyethylene ropes, fishing nets (gillnets), used or new rags, vessels more than 15 years old, motorbikes more than three years old, and single phase electricity meters. (references)

Brazil

Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Hatching

"Hatching" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 56.25% of the time. "Hatching" is used about 80 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)56.25%4550,900
Noun (singular)43.75%3558,339
                    Total100.00%80N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Hatching

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "hatching": cross-hatching.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hatching

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hatching eggs

139

baby clip hatching video worm

7

duck eggs hatching

44

bird hatching

7

chicken hatching

34

eggs hatching peacock

6

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34

hatching peacock

6

eggs hatching turtle

32

duck egg hatching

6

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28

baby chick hatching

6

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21

eggs goose hatching

6

hatching brine shrimp

21

hatching real time

5

eggs hatching quail

18

eggs guinea hatching

5

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15

hatching turkey

5

bird eggs hatching

15

eggs hatching sale

5

hatching egg

13

eggs hatching painted turtle

5

eggs hatching turkey

13

egg hatching robin

5

eggs hatching pheasant

11

ducklings hatching

5

hatching quail

9

eggs hatching turkey wild

4

hatching turtle

9

buying eggs hatching

4

cross hatching

8

butterfly hatching

4

egg hatching quail

8

cockatiel eggs hatching

4

hatching pheasant

7

bird egg hatching

4

eggs hatching robin

7

chicken egg hatching

4

eggs hatching snapping turtle

4
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Modern Translation: Hatching

Language Translations for "hatching"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vizim (hatch), mbushje me vija paralele. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فقس (hatch). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

новоизлюпено пиле, пилило (flight, hatch, set). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

孵化 (hatched, incubate, Incubated, Incubating). (various references)

   

Czech

  

líhnutí (incubation). (various references)

   

Danish

  

udrugning (breed, brooding, hatch, incubation), udklaekning, skravering. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

uitkomen (appear, be appropriate, be suitable, bevel, bud, come out, come to pass, come true, emerge, exit, go out, perform, result, sprout, suit), uitbroeden (hatch out), schaduwing (hill shading), kleurzoom, broeden (incubate, sit), arcering. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

haudonta (bathing, brooding, fomentation, incubation), kuoriutuminen (scaling). (various references)

   

French

  

hachure, éclosion (hatch). (various references)

   

German

  

schraffierung (hachures, shading). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γραμμοσκιά, γραμμοσκίαση (hill shading), χρωματισμός με γραμμές, εκκόλαψη (incubation), επώαση (brooding, incubation). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

""'ר" (incubation), "'יר" (brooding, incubation, sitting), בקיע" (breach, cleaving, cracking, fissure, herniation, splitting). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kikeltés, csirke kikelése. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pengeraman (hatch), arsiran (shaded in area). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tratteggio (hachure, hachure line). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

孵化 (incubation), 孵卵 (incubation). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふか (addition, annexation, appendage, bad, burden, empty show, frivolity, imposition, improper, inadvisable, incubation, levity, levy, load, shark, suburban districts, unjustifiable, wealthy family, within an urban-prefecture, wrong), ふら" (decompose, decomposition, incubation, space without columns, ulcerate, ulceration). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

부". (various references)

   

Manx

  

guirragh (broody, clucky, nesting, rotten, sitting, sitting of fowl), guirr (brood, fester, hatch, incubate, incubation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atchinghay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

linhas e pontos, incubação (breed, brooding, hatch, incubation), contorno (contour, cutout, dide view, girth, lay, lineament, outline, profile, shape). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

штриховка, насечка (notching). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

gur (at your, brood of birds, festering, precedes n. and adj. beginning in con., that). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

senčenje (shading, shadowing). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

incubación (incubation, sitting). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skuggning (shading), kläckning (hatch, incubation). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yumurtadan çıkma, yumurtadan çıkan hayvanlar, tasarlama (hatcher), tarama (carding, combing, crosshatching, hachure, hachures, hatch, line drawing, scanning, screening, sweep), kurma (building, constitution, construction, contrivance, erecting, erection, establishment, forming, foundation, hatcher, installation, installment, instalment, institution, promotion, wind, winding up), kuluçkadan çıkma, civcivler (brood, hatch). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

штриховка, насічка (hacking, notching, wound). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hatching

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

fetus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hatching

Derivations

Words beginning with "hatching": hatchings. (additional references)

Words ending with "hatching": crosshatching, thatching. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Hatching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: huaching, Phatphong. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hatching"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "hatching" (pronounced ha"khing)
4-a" kh i ngattaching, catching, dispatching, latching, matching, patching, scratching, snatching.
3-kh i ngapproaching, arching, beaching, belching, bleaching, branching, breaching, broaching, bunching, clinching, clutching, coaching, crouching, crunching, ditching, drenching, encroaching, enriching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hitching, impeaching, inching, itching, launching, leaching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, mulching, munching, overarching, overreaching, pinching, pitching, poaching, preaching, punching, quenching, ranching, reaching, researching, retouching, retrenching, scorching, screeching, searching, sketching, slouching, snitching, squelching, stanching, stitching, stretching, switching, teaching, torching, touching, twitching, unflinching, vouching, watching, witching, wrenching.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Hatching

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-h-i-n-t"

-1 letter: gnathic.

-2 letters: aching, acting, canthi, hating.

-3 letters: acing, actin, aitch, antic, chain, chang, chant, china, giant, hatch, hight, hitch, natch, night, thigh, thing.

-4 letters: agin, anti, cain, cant, chat, chia, chin, chit, gain, gait, ghat, gnat, hang, hant, hath, high, hint, inch, itch, nigh, tach, tain, tang, than, thin, ting.

-5 letters: act, ain, ait, ani.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-h-i-n-t"
 

+1 letter: hatchings, hatchling, thatching.

 

+2 letters: hatcheling, hatchlings.

 

+3 letters: hatchelling.

 

+4 letters: chitchatting, ethnographic.

 

+5 letters: crosshatching, hectographing, hypothecating, shortchanging.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Bibliography


  

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