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hatch | American Dictionary

hatch
verb
us/hætʃ/

hatchverb (BREAK EGG)

[ I/T ]
to break an egg so a baby animal can come out:
[ I ]The birds hatched out the next afternoon.

hatchverb (PLAN)

[ T ]
to create or decide on a plan, esp. a secret plan:
They hatched a plan for a surprise birthday party.
hatch
noun[ C ]
us/hætʃ/

hatchnoun[C] (OPENING)

an opening through a floor or wall, or the cover for an opening, esp. on a ship:
a cargo hatch

Examples of hatch

hatch
With development, the egg substantially enlarges before hatching.
Another explanation of apparent recovery of hatching ability over time is stage of juvenile development.
Depression of egg hatch after 5 days' exposure was somewhat less severe, expressed as a percentage of the control, than at 2 days.
The study of the biology suggested that infestation might be checked by delaying harvesting until after the larvae hatched.
The amount of actin filaments was prominent at hatching embryos compared with other developmental stages of embryos.
There is also some effect on the viability of larvae after hatching.
Juveniles for the determinations were selected at random from among those hatched.
The eggs hatched after eight days under favourable conditions, such as those under which the female was kept; they did not hatch in the cold.
Puparia were then extracted from sawdust and kept in separate containers until they hatched.
Cumulative hatching curves were then calculated and expressed as the number of juveniles emerging/week as a percentage of the viable egg contents.
The speed regimes (12) correspond to the two 'gaps' (shown as hatched) in the phase velocity curves.
Numbers in parentheses indicate pairs in which hatched eggs were not found.
These low hatch rates were observed using essentially the same technique described here.
Clutches that were not monitored from the first day after egg deposition or not observed daily while hatching were excluded.
Because larvae that hatch from the same egg mass often quest in clusters, several of them may attach to the same individual host.
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