hatching

IPA: hˈætʃɪŋ

A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
The act of an egg hatching, eclosion
Patterns used in construction drawings to represent various materials.

Examples of "hatching" in Sentences

Upon hatching, the altricial chicks are brooded until the nestling phase.
Cracking a nut open that way is sometimes called hatching, and that is how I come by the name of Nuthatch.
I guess the hatching is your background image or something, because it’s still visible on the left-hand side.
Rest of the year best to figure out what is hatching from the charts or stop into Gates 'or the Old AuSable and ask.
In Pennsylvania spring creeks, you can't get a brown to take a fly unless it perfectly matches the main hatching insects.
Economic stability is the only ruling ethic and people are born in hatching factories, where they've been preordained from the embryo to be
"Myers will play British Gen. Ed Fenech, a military mastermind who takes part in hatching a plot to wipe out Nazi leaders," writes the trade.
But I like the idea of hatching out our own eggs, and he protected his girls by attacking a hawk that swooped down to grab one of the hens, so we'll keep him around!
For this new hatching, which is to turn a grub into a Bee, for this general remodelling, the delicacy of which demands absolute repose, all the precautions that make for safety have been taken.
I have been sitting here upon ten eggs for three weeks past, and, of course, have another week to be confined; but then the thoughts of the pleasure I shall have in hatching and guiding my young ones to the water, is ample payment for all my pains.