Usually means: Opening for entering or exiting.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hatch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hatch, hatch, hatch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hatch, hatch, hatch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hatch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hatch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hatch, hatch: Wordnik
  7. hatch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hatch, hatch: Wiktionary
  9. hatch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hatch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hatch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hatch, hatch: Dictionary.com
  13. hatch (n.), hatch (v1.), hatch (v2.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hatch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hatch (e-commerce company), Hatch (surname), Hatch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hatch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hatch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hatch: Rhymezone
  19. hatch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hatch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hatch: Free Dictionary
  22. hatch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hatch: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  4. hatch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hatch (door), hatch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HATCH: Acronym Finder
  2. hatch: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hatch, hatch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hatch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. HATCH: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See hatchability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
noun:  A trapdoor.
noun:  An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
noun:  A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
noun:  (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
noun:  (slang) A gullet.
noun:  A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
noun:  A floodgate; a sluice gate.
noun:  (Scotland) A bedstead.
noun:  (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
verb:  (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
verb:  (intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
verb:  (intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
verb:  (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
verb:  (transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).
noun:  The act of hatching.
noun:  (figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.
noun:  (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
noun:  (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
noun:  (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
verb:  (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
noun:  A surname.

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