(v. t.) To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
(v. t.) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
(v. t.) To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched.
(v. t.) To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy.
(v. i.) To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.
(n.) The act of hatching.
(n.) Development; disclosure; discovery.
(n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.
(n.) A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.
(n.) A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
(n.) A flood gate; a a sluice gate.
(n.) A bedstead.
(n.) An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door, or one of the covers used in closing such an opening.
(n.) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
(v. t.) To close with a hatch or hatches.
Example Sentences:
(1) % hatch X 20000) of ticks from treated cattle with that of ticks from untreated cattle.
(2) Larvae from fresh water eggs, cultured in fresh water and 'normal' laboratory cultures reached 50% infectivity in 3-5 days, losing potential infectivity in 11-15 days post-hatching.
(3) Hatching commenced in early October (after 23 wk), when air and water temperatures decreased to 20 and 15 degrees C, respectively, and continued until mid-December (32 wk) in the field.
(4) Prolactin plasma concentrations decreased rapidly at the end of incubation in ducks which successfully hatched young as well as in unsuccessful incubators.
(5) Although the chicks were behaviorally and electrophysiologically blind at the time of hatching, their retinas appeared morphologically comparable to normal chicks at this stage.
(6) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
(7) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
(8) In house flies, Musca domestica L., eggs fertilized with sperm that have chromosome deficiencies and duplications do not hatch, but develop to a stage where a fully differentiated, prehatch larva is formed.
(9) Results showed that embryos stimulated by clicks began breathing about nine hours in advance of unstimulated controls and hatched about 23 hours in advance.
(10) In hatched larvae around developmental stage 46, strong expression of 2NI-36 was observed in several tissues including the vascular endothelium, the pigmented epithelium and the inner layer of skin epidermis.
(11) The presence of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was investigated in neuroretina sections from hatching quail embryos by immunocytochemistry.
(12) Tibial breaking strength and tibial percentage ash of the progeny at hatching was markedly improved in proportion to maternal phosphorus and food intake.
(13) In contrast, the HNK-1 CSPG was present as early as embryonic day 4 and remained constant through hatching.
(14) Titers of the poults were monitored for 7 weeks, and poults were challenged by exposure to infected poults at 1, 7, 14, and 21 days post-hatch.
(15) Allomorphic relationships in chickens selected for high or low juvenile body weight and their reciprocal crosses were examined from hatch to 56 days of age (doa).
(16) Hatching readily occurred in deionized water, but the emerged miracidia did not swim longer than 5 to 10 min unless Na+ was added.
(17) The present study investigated the ontogeny of 3H-uridine incorporation into RNA as a measure for RNA synthesis in preimplantation porcine embryos from the two-cell stage up to the stage of the newly hatched blastocyst.
(18) Blastocyst formation, hatching of blastocysts, and the number of cells per embryo were affected by this increase in radiation risk.
(19) The embryogenesis of the proctodeal gland and development of the connective tissue of the associated lamina propria in the dorsal wall of the proctodeum of Common Coturnix (Coturnix c. japonica) were studied on embryos collected at 12-hour intervals from day 7 of incubation through hatching.
(20) Tooth germs are formed partly by cells of the stomodeal collar and partly by mesenchymal cells and calcification takes place before hatching.
Manhole
Definition:
(n.) A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.
Example Sentences:
(1) I went to the US point of arrival and opened the manhole they come up through: it was heavily piped, dark, uninteresting.
(2) The easiest thing to do would have been to get a manhole cover and record the real thing, but in those days location recording was considered to be too hard in New York City, so I had to do it in the studio,” said Lievsay.
(3) When entering manholes, employees must adhere strictly to all safety rules, such as the testing of the air before entry, ventilation of the air spaces, and the presence of a standby rescue worker.
(4) In Houston, on any given day, entomologists can be found clanking open manhole covers, wading into ditches or walking through backyards of obliging residents.
(5) It was a cursory, four-paragraph news story: the Times of India last October reported the case of four Indian workers who were killed while cleaning manholes in Doha.
(6) But somewhere between the non-coast guard approved rubber duckie floatation device and open manholes there is a happy middle ground.
(7) BT's fibre to the remote node (FTTRn) system brings optic fibre cables from the local telephone exchange to the street, where a small box will be attached to a telegraph pole, fixed to a wall or sunk into a manhole.
(8) If we hadn't discovered it in time, raw sewage could have started spurting out of manholes across the whole of Kingston.
(9) Residents say Carlos was trying to unclog a manhole and was carried by the force of the current and debris.
(10) The council also had to be invoked in LN-C's case because it had concreted over relevant manhole covers and she now has a working line.
(11) In May 2007 a manhole at Dounreay in northern Scotland was found to be contaminated with plutonium.
(12) One of the team tells me the furthest he had ever travelled underground away from a manhole or other exit was 600m.
(13) All along the side of this road at regular intervals were these manholes for individual people that had thick straw lids that you pull over to protect you from the bombs and the shrapnel.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Manhole covers, jam and allotments: Jeremy Corbyn on The One Show This is the party, after all, that suddenly announced the retirement age for 2.6 million women would jump from 60 to 66.
(15) The diagnosis of acute stagnant air syndrome for this type of accident is introduced herein, to alert industrial concerns and the medical professions about the existence of this occupational hazard confronting individuals who work in confined and poorly ventilated manholes.
(16) The American public doesn't respond to the bra burners, the fighters, the women who insist on calling manhole covers 'people-hole covers'.
(17) It is suggested that a simple locking device, similar to that employed on manhole covers, would eliminate this type of injury.
(18) queries his 13-year-old leading man, who then questions the position of the manhole cover.
(19) Come February, there may be a new name on the manhole cover, but it’ll still be the same sewer.
(20) First, he had an audition of sorts: Scorsese gave him a bit of film and said, “See what you can do with that.” It was a clip – later edited out of the movie – of Griffin Dunne crawling up out of a manhole, and they needed a sound for the scraping of the manhole cover as Dunne shoved it aside.