(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.
Trapdoor
Definition:
(n.) A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.
(n.) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door.
Example Sentences:
(1) The material was used as an intrascleral implant in 100 trapdoor retinal procedures.
(2) Moreover, within the question of what provision goes where, lurk trapdoors.
(3) It allows primary closure of recipient and donor site without the formation of dog-ear or trapdoor deformity.
(4) This series included 192 trapdoor and scleral pouch procedures, and 183 operations in which a gelatin implant was used beneath a silicone rubber implant.
(5) Yet the fact remains that, since he left the Liberty Stadium in 2009, a section of the Swansea fans have branded him "El Judas" and City's 3-2 win in May pushed his Wigan side to the relegation trapdoor.
(6) The launch didn’t go well, which was bad news for their nuclear program but good news for the man-eating crocodiles that live under the trapdoor in Kim Jong-un’s bedroom.
(7) For marked trapdoor deformities, the combination of multiple, small Z-plasties along the semicircular scar and peripheral undermining about the trapdoor defect is the corrective procedure.
(8) For mild to moderately severe trapdoor deformities, multiple, small Z-plasties about the periphery of the nasolabial flap are indicated.
(9) Trapdoor fractures of the floor of the orbit were first described in 1965 by Soll and Poley.
(10) Sheath closure after tendon grafting was accomplished by trapdoor of the original sheath, vein patch, and vein conduit.
(11) It has recently been the source of three new kinds of plant, a trapdoor spider , another snail and new kind of Bent-toed Gecko .
(12) Intralesional triamcinolone acetonide injections may produce a "pharmacologic Z-plasty" effect in some trapdoor deformities.
(13) Tissue obtained at seven different time periods was studied by light and electron microscopy and showed only a mild inflammatory reaction of the same grade as or less than that surrounding nylon sutures used to close the scleral trapdoors.
(14) Animals were randomized into three groups based on the type of incision used: inferiorly based trapdoor, vertical slit, or horizontal H. Endoscopic, radiographic, and airflow studies, as well as cross-sectional areas, were compared on all animals surviving tracheal cannulation for eight days and subsequent decannulation for seven days.
(15) In 2009, when a veteran Washington reporter, Helen Thomas, asked Barack Obama in the first month of his presidency if he knew of any country in the Middle East with nuclear weapons, he dodged the trapdoor by saying only that he did not wish to "speculate".
(16) Fractured bone tips were classified to depressive and trapdoor types.
(17) In the modern benefits system, trapdoors abound: if you fail to get the employment and support allowance and find yourself on jobseeker's allowance, for example, you will not only suffer a 14% drop in income but may very well fall foul of the latter's demands and find yourself "sanctioned", with no benefits at all.
(18) The fractures were classified on the basis of the location (floor, medial wall or roof), extent (total, partial or linear) and type of fragments (punched-out or trapdoor).
(19) With regard to the type of fragments, all of the trapdoor type cases showed a favorable result with disappearance of double vision within three months.
(20) Success can be anticipated only in carefully selected cases with relatively circumscribed stenosis, if the so-called submucous resection with micro-trapdoor flap technique is employed.