Synonyms of the word hachure


HACHURECROSSHATCH - HATCH - HATCHING - SHADING

hachure

  • n. (cartography, chiefly historical) A line on a map indicating the steepness of a slope.
  • v. To mark a map with hachures.

crosshatch

  • n. A pattern of crossing lines.
  • v. To mark or fill with a crosshatch pattern.

hatch

  • n. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
  • n. A trapdoor.
  • n. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
  • n. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided…
  • n. An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.
  • n. (slang) A gullet.
  • n. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
  • n. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
  • n. (Scotland) A bedstead.
  • n. (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
  • v. (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
  • v. (intransitive) (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
  • v. (intransitive) (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
  • v. (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
  • v. (transitive) To devise.
  • n. The act of hatching.
  • n. Development; disclosure; discovery.
  • n. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
  • n. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one…
  • n. (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched…
  • v. (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

hatching

  • n. A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
  • n. A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
  • n. The act of an egg hatching, eclosion.
  • v. present participle of hatch.

shading

  • v. present participle of shade.

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