HATCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hatching mean? 

• HATCHING (noun)
  The noun HATCHING has 2 senses:

1. the production of young from an egg

2. shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

  Familiarity information: HATCHING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HATCHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The production of young from an egg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

hatch; hatching

Hypernyms ("hatching" is a kind of...):

birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition (the process of giving birth)

Derivation:

hatch (emerge from the eggs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

crosshatch; hachure; hatch; hatching

Hypernyms ("hatching" is a kind of...):

shading (graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting)

Derivation:

hatch (draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper)

 Context examples 

The results of a study have enabled researchers to better understand the role of eggshells in embryo development and hatching.

(Study paves way for healthier and more robust eggs, University of Granada)

This, researchers say, would have put dinosaurs at a disadvantage over animals with quicker-hatching eggs and their mammalian competitors.

(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)

Now, said the father to the eldest son, take away the eggs without letting the bird that is sitting upon them and hatching them know anything of what you are doing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They proved similar to the hatching lines in today's reptiles, and to neonatal growth lines in extant mammals.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

After hatching in the Sargasso Sea, eel larvae move more than 5,000 kilometers with the Gulf Stream until they reach the continental slope off Europe.

(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)

However, they gradually weaken as the hatching period approaches to make it easier for the chicks to break through the shell.

(Study paves way for healthier and more robust eggs, University of Granada)

The baby behemoths were active, capable of a wider array of maneuvers than adult members of their species, and didn't need parental care after hatching.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

The detailed microscopic features of the Rapetosaurus bones revealed patterns similar to those of living animals and made it possible for the scientists to reconstruct the beginning of the dinosaur's post-hatching life.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

The zones indicate the time of hatching in Rapetosaurus, and allowed the scientists to estimate the weight of the newly hatched Rapetosaurus — around 7.7 pounds.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)