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UK
/hˈætʃɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈhætʃɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈhætʃɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- the production of young from an egg
How To Use hatching In A Sentence
- Hatching may be synchronous or asynchronous (one or two days apart).
- They are accused of hatching a decade-long plot to keep wholesale oil prices artificially high. The Sun
- Nest initiation dates were estimated by candling incubating nests and assuming an incubation period of 24 to 26 days for hatching nests.
- Their conjugal affection still is ty'd,And still the mournful race is multiply'd:They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd,Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest:A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind,Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind;Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease,And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata
- He has accused opposition parties of hatching a plot to assassinate the Pope.
- The thatching is begun at the apex of the roof on boards and worked towards the bottom. Bunratty Castle, Ireland « Colleen Anderson
- The female builds the nest and incubates and broods alone, but both parents feed the chicks, which fledge within 14-16 days of hatching.
- In this manner the shrimp are easily collected and can be shaken into the aquarium and water obtained for the next hatching.
- As seams they may be thick or thin -- borderlands of crosshatching or palimpsesting inhabitable in their own right or thresholds crossed with a step; they may be sealed tightly with crossings only possible through a portal or a rift, or they may be stitched loosely with crossings possible at any point along the long threshold. Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
- There she was, sitting as usual, and I was so concerned, believing that due to my interference all the eggs had addled—for I thought the hatching time was three weeks.