hatching
ha ching
- n the production of young from an egg
- n shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- v emerge from the eggs
- v devise or invent
- v inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
- v draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
- v sit on (eggs)
- FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials say no such devices have actually been discovered, nor is there any current intelligence that terrorists are hatching plots .
- Though al-Qaeda's lair in Afghanistan may have been smashed, he says, "The snake has already laid a thousand eggs, which are hatching and slipping off in all directions.
- Those movies, which in their Disney DVD versions have diverted many an American child, prove that Miyazaki is more than a giant brain hatching grand schemes.