Synonyms of the word

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.

birth

• n. (uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life.
• n. (countable) An instance of childbirth.
• n. (countable) A beginning or start; a point of origin.
• n. (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
• n. That which is born.
• n. Misspelling of berth.
• adj. A familial relationship established by childbirth.
• v. (dated or regional) To bear or give birth to (a child).
• v. (figuratively) To produce, give rise to.

birthing

• n. (sometimes attributive) The act of giving birth.
• n. (nautical) Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.

brood

• n. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same…
• n. (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
• n. The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together…
• n. The children in one family.
• n. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
• n. (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
• v. (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
• v. (transitive) To protect.
• v. (intransitive) To dwell upon moodily and at length (with adpositions generally being either about or over).

concoct

• v. To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.
• v. To contrive something using skill or ingenuity.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

crosshatch

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

hachure

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

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.

incubate

• v. (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal…
• v. (transitive) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation…

inlay

• n. The material placed within a different material in the form of a decoration.
• n. (dentistry) A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented…
• n. The piece of paper or the booklet inside the case of a CD or DVD.
• v. To place pieces of a foreign material within another material to form a decorative design.
• v. (dentistry) To place an inlay in a tooth.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

multiply

• v. (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication on (a number).
• v. (intransitive) To grow in number.
• v. (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
• v. (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
• v. (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
• n. (computer science) An act or instance of multiplying.
• adv. In many or multiple ways.

parturition

• n. The act of giving birth; childbirth.

procreate

• v. (transitive) To beget or conceive (offspring).
• v. (transitive) To originate, create or produce something.
• v. (intransitive) To reproduce.

reproduce

• v. To produce an image or copy of something.
• v. (biology) To generate offspring (sexually or asexually), or organisms.
• v. To produce again; to recreate.
• v. To bring something to mind; to recall.

shading

• v. present participle of shade.