hatch
part of speech
verb (hatch, hatches, hatched, hatching); noun (a hatch, hatches)
meaning for a pupil
1) To hatch is for a baby bird, reptile or fish to break out of its egg. tree →
2) To hatch an egg is for the egg to open and the baby come out. tree →
3) To hatch a plan is to make a secret plan. tree →
4) A hatch is a small door or opening in a floor, wall, ship or plane. tree →
sense 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 →
- Turtle eggs hatch in the warm sand. tree →
- Three eggs hatched this morning. tree →
- They hatched a plan to surprise Mum. tree →
- Climb up through the hatch into the attic. tree →
- The submarine's hatch closed. tree →
- Don't count your chickens before they've hatched. tree →
- Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. tree →
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 the corpora
- All clownfish hatch as males, and the biggest one in a group can turn into the female.
- Alligators bellow so deeply that the water on their backs dances, and babies call from inside their eggs when ready to hatch.
- Jonathan, a giant tortoise on the island of St Helena, hatched around 1832 and is the oldest known living land animal.
- Many female sea turtles come back to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched; scientists think they remember its magnetic signature.
- Supermarket eggs never hatch because the hens live without a cockerel, and a hen lays about one egg a day.
Trees and pragmatics
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