hatch

Definition

  • noun: an opening in the deck of a ship or in the floor, wall, or roof of a building
  • noun: a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship)
  • verb: to come out of an egg
  • verb: to produce young by incubation
  • usually used as '(be) hatched'
  • synonyms: cross, spot, stain

Examples

  • He squeezed into/through the 'hatch' and crawled below deck.

  • They 'hatched' a plot to overthrow the government.

  • a whiskey that goes 'down the hatch' smoothly

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Fifteen years ago, it's what caused the melt down! It was an electro magnetic pulse. That's what it's building to... converting all that radiation until it hatches. You have to shut down. Secure the grid! Wildfire protocols! All personnel, clear the first perimeter immediately! (..)
    2014 Godzilla