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Definition: Hatching |
HatchingAdjective1. Good at incubating eggs especially a fowl kept for that purpose; "a brood hen". Noun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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: HatchingSynonyms: brood (adj), brooding (adj), crosshatch (n), hachure (n), hatch (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hatching |
| English words defined with "hatching": autosexing ♦ Eccaleobion, embryonal, embryonic ♦ Hatcher ♦ larva ♦ nidicolous, nidifugous ♦ Tritovum. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hatching": californian incubator, chicken fancier ♦ hatchery helper, Hatching success ♦ incubator helper, Incubators ♦ LABORER, POULTRY HATCHERY ♦ Martin's Running Footman ♦ Nest success ♦ POULTRY BREEDER, pullorum disease of chicks ♦ screen shape-up, SUPERVISOR, GAME FARM ♦ white diarrhoea of chicks. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hatching": hachure. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Two Hours After Hatching (1899) Eggs Hatching (1899) | |
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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. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) | |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 56.25% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (singular) | 43.75% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Total | 100.00% | 80 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "hatching": cross-hatching. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fetus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hatching": hatchings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hatching": crosshatching, thatching. (additional references) | |
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"Hatching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: huaching, Phatphong. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hatching" (pronounced ha"khing) |
| 4 | -a" kh i ng | attaching, catching, dispatching, latching, matching, patching, scratching, snatching. |
| 3 | -kh i ng | approaching, 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. | ||
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. | |
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