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hatching
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hatching has 2 senses
- hatching(n = noun.process) hatch - the production of young from an egg; Array is a kind of birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition
- hatching(n = noun.attribute) crosshatch, hachure, hatch - shading consisting of multiple crossing lines; Array is a kind of shading
Derived form verb hatch1
Derived form verb hatch4
CIDE DICTIONARY
hatching, n. [See 1st Hatch.].
A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hatching, n. Art & Archit. close parallel lines forming shading esp. on a map or an architectural drawing.
THESAURUS
hatching
accouchement, arabesque, authorship, band, bar, basketry, basketwork, beginning, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, burr, cancellation, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, chiseling, coinage, conception, concoction, confinement, contrivance, contriving, creation, creative effort, cross-hatching, crossing-out, dash, delineation, delivery, demitint, devising, diagonal, dotted line, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, fabrication, filigree, fret, fretwork, gem-engraving, generation, genesis, giving birth, glass-cutting, glyptic, grate, grating, graving, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hairline, half tint, having a baby, improvisation, incision, inscript, inscription, interlacement, intertexture, intertwinement, invention, labor, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, line, lineation, lining, making do, marking, mesh, meshes, meshwork, mintage, multiparity, nascency, nativity, net, netting, network, origination, parturition, plexure, plexus, raddle, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, screen, screening, sieve, slash, slashing, stipple, stippling, streak, streaking, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, texture, the Nativity, the stork, tint, tissue, tooling, tracery, travail, trellis, trelliswork, type-cutting, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork
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