Door vs. Hatch

Doornoun

A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.

Doornoun

Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.

Doornoun

(immigration) An entry point.

Doornoun

(figurative) A means of approach or access.

Doornoun

(figurative) A barrier.

Doornoun

A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.

Doorverb

To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

Doornoun

An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.

Doornoun

The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened.

Doornoun

Passage; means of approach or access.

Doornoun

An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads.

Doornoun

a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle;

Doornoun

the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close;

Doornoun

anything providing a means of access (or escape);

Doornoun

a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road);

Doornoun

a room that is entered via a door;

Doornoun

a hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard

Doornoun

a doorway

Doornoun

used to refer to the distance from one building in a row to another

Door

A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress into and egress from an enclosure. The created opening in the wall is a doorway or portal.

Hatchnoun

A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.

Hatchnoun

A trapdoor.

Hatchnoun

An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.

Hatchnoun

A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.

Hatchnoun

An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine.

Hatchnoun

(slang) A gullet.

Hatchnoun

A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.

Hatchnoun

A floodgate; a sluice gate.

Hatchnoun

(Scotland) A bedstead.

Hatchnoun

(mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

Hatchnoun

The act of hatching.

Hatchnoun

Development; disclosure; discovery.

Hatchnoun

(poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.

Hatchnoun

(often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.

Hatchnoun

(informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."

Hatchverb

(transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.

Hatchverb

(intransitive) (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.

Hatchverb

(intransitive) (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.

Hatchverb

(transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.

Hatchverb

(transitive) To devise.

Hatchverb

(transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).

Hatchverb

To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

Hatchverb

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

Hatchverb

To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

Hatchverb

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.

Hatchverb

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.

Hatchverb

To produce young; - said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; - said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.

Hatchverb

To close with a hatch or hatches.

Hatchnoun

The act of hatching.

Hatchnoun

Development; disclosure; discovery.

Hatchnoun

The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.

Hatchnoun

A door with an opening over it; a half door, sometimes set with spikes on the upper edge.

Hatchnoun

A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.

Hatchnoun

A flood gate; a sluice gate.

Hatchnoun

A bedstead.

Hatchnoun

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.

Hatchnoun

An opening into, or in search of, a mine.

Hatchnoun

the production of young from an egg

Hatchnoun

shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

Hatchnoun

a movable barrier covering a hatchway

Hatchverb

emerge from the eggs;

Hatchverb

devise or invent;

Hatchverb

inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating

Hatchverb

draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper;

Hatchverb

sit on (eggs);

Hatchnoun

a door in an aircraft, spacecraft, or submarine.

Hatchnoun

the rear door of a hatchback car

Hatchnoun

short for hatchback

Hatchnoun

a newly hatched brood

Hatchverb

(of an egg) open and produce a young animal

Hatchverb

incubate (an egg).

Hatchverb

(of a young bird, fish, or reptile) emerge from its egg

Hatchverb

cause (a young animal) to emerge from its egg

Hatchverb

conspire to devise (a plot or plan)

Hatchverb

(in fine art and technical drawing) shade (an area) with closely drawn parallel lines