Door vs. Hatch

Door vs. Hatch — Is There a Difference?
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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 door

Hatchnoun

A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.

Doornoun

Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

the 24 doors in an Advent calendar

Hatchnoun

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.
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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.

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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 left

Hatchnoun

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 doorway

Hatchnoun

(Scotland) A bedstead.

Doornoun

anything providing a means of access (or escape);

we closed the door to Haitian immigrantseducation is the door to success

Hatchnoun

(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 us

Hatchnoun

The act of hatching.

Doornoun

a room that is entered via a door;

his office is the third door down the hall on the left

Hatchnoun

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 hatch

Hatchverb

devise or invent;

He thought up a plan to get rich quicklyno-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software

Hatchverb

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 sheet

Hatchverb

sit on (eggs);

Birds broodThe female covers the eggs