hatch in WordNet English dictionary

1. sit on (eggs)
   "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
   brood  hatch  cover  incubate 
   
2. devise or invent
   "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"
   think up  think of  dream up  hatch  concoct 
   
3. emerge from the eggs
   "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"
   hatch 
   
4. draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
   "hatch the sheet"
   hatch 
   
5. inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
   hatch 
   

1. shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
   hatch  hatching  crosshatch  hachure 
   
2. a movable barrier covering a hatchway
   hatch 
   
3. the production of young from an egg
   hatch  hatching