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# hatch

verb (hatch, hatches, hatched, hatching); noun (a hatch, hatches)

«hatch» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To hatch is for a baby bird, reptile or fish to break out of its egg. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/#m1)
2. To hatch an egg is for the egg to open and the baby come out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/#m2)
3. To hatch a plan is to make a secret plan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/#m3)
4. A hatch is a small door or opening in a floor, wall, ship or plane. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/#m4)

### In the lessons

In science lessons pupils watch chicks or butterflies hatch and learn life cycles: egg → chick → hen; caterpillars hatch from eggs too. In stories children hatch a plan or climb through a hatch into the loft. Phrases: hatch out, hatch a plan, escape hatch, don't count your chickens before they've hatched.

### Examples

- The chick hatched out of its egg. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/#x1)
- Turtle eggs hatch in the warm sand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/#x2)
- Three eggs hatched this morning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/#x3)
- They hatched a plan to surprise Mum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/#x4)
- Climb up through the hatch into the attic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/#x5)
- The submarine's hatch closed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/#x6)
- Don't count your chickens before they've hatched. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/#x7)
- Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/#x8)

### Note

Regular verb (hatched). Plural noun: hatches (add -es). The proverb means don't be sure of good results before they really happen. In maths, «12 eggs, 9 hatched» means 3 did not hatch.

## In Jewish tradition

Used for snakes and nests, as in Isaiah, meaning to bring forth young; also for wicked people hatching evil plans.

**Interpretation.** Isaiah pictures wicked plans as deadly eggs, and the ruined land is left to wild creatures.

### Examples

- They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. (Prophets ISA.59.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hatch/#x1)
- There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and brood under her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate. (Prophets ISA.34.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hatch/#x2)

### Note

Regular verb (hatched). Plural noun: hatches (add -es). The proverb means don't be sure of good results before they really happen. In maths, «12 eggs, 9 hatched» means 3 did not hatch.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hatch» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hatch/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hatch» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hatch.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «hatch» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hatch/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hatch» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/hatch.html) on Mova free.