Door vs. Hatch
Difference Between Door and Hatch
Doornoun
A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
I knocked on the vice president's doorHatchnoun
A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
Doornoun
Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
the 24 doors in an Advent calendarHatchnoun
A trapdoor.
Doornoun
(immigration) An entry point.
Hatchnoun
An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.Doornoun
(figurative) A means of approach or access.
Learning is the door to wisdom.Hatchnoun
A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
Doornoun
(figurative) A barrier.
Keep a door on your anger.Hatchnoun
An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.
Doornoun
A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
Hatchnoun
(slang) A gullet.
Doorverb
To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.
Hatchnoun
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
Doornoun
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle;
he knocked on the doorhe slammed the door as he leftHatchnoun
A floodgate; a sluice gate.
Doornoun
the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close;
he stuck his head in the doorwayHatchnoun
(Scotland) A bedstead.
Doornoun
anything providing a means of access (or escape);
we closed the door to Haitian immigrantseducation is the door to successHatchnoun
(mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
Doornoun
a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road);
the office next doorthey live two doors up the street from usHatchnoun
The act of hatching.
Doornoun
a room that is entered via a door;
his office is the third door down the hall on the leftHatchnoun
Development; disclosure; discovery.
Hatchnoun
(poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
These pullets are from an April hatch.Hatchnoun
(often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
Hatchnoun
(informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."
Hatchverb
(transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
Hatchverb
(intransitive) (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
Hatchverb
(intransitive) (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
Hatchverb
(transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
Hatchverb
(transitive) To devise.
Hatchverb
(transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
Hatchverb
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
Hatchnoun
the production of young from an egg
Hatchnoun
shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
Hatchnoun
a movable barrier covering a hatchway
Hatchverb
emerge from the eggs;
young birds, fish, and reptiles hatchHatchverb
devise or invent;
He thought up a plan to get rich quicklyno-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of softwareHatchverb
inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
Hatchverb
draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper;
hatch the sheetHatchverb
sit on (eggs);
Birds broodThe female covers the eggs
