Hatch vs. Spawn — What's the Difference?

A door in an aircraft, spacecraft, or submarine.

The eggs of aquatic animals such as bivalve mollusks, fishes, and amphibians.

The rear door of a hatchback car

Offspring, especially when occurring in large numbers.

Short for hatchback

A product or an outcome

A newly hatched brood

Mycelia of mushrooms or other fungi grown in specially prepared organic matter for planting in beds.

(of an egg) open and produce a young animal

To deposit eggs; produce spawn.

Conspire to devise (a plot or plan)

To produce offspring in large numbers.

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

To produce or deposit (spawn).

An opening, as in the deck of a ship, in the roof or floor of a building, or in an aircraft.

To produce (offspring).

The cover for such an opening.

To produce or give rise to

A hatchway.

To plant with mycelia grown in specially prepared organic matter.

A door that opens upward on the rear of an automobile; a hatchback.

(transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

A floodgate.

(transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.

The act or an instance of hatching from an egg or similar structure.

(transitive) To bring forth in general.

The act or an instance of emerging from a cocoon or chrysalis.

(transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.

The act or an instance of emerging from the water when transforming from an aquatic larval or pupal form to a winged form.

(transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.

A group of young organisms, especially birds, that hatch at one time; a brood.

(intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.

A group of adult insects that emerge at one time.

(intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.

A group of winged insects, as mayflies or caddisflies, that emerge at one time from a body of water.

(To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.

A fine line used in hatching.

The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.

To emerge from an egg or other structure that surrounds and protects an embryo.

Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.

To emerge from a cocoon or chrysalis.

Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.

To emerge from the water when transforming from an aquatic larval or pupal form to a winged form, as a mayfly or caddisfly.

(horticulture) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.

To produce (young) from an egg or eggs.

(video games) The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.

To cause (an egg or eggs) to produce young.

To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.

To devise or originate, especially in secret

To bring forth; to generate; - used in contempt.

To shade by drawing or etching fine parallel or crossed lines on.

To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.

A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.

To issue, as offspring; - used contemptuously.

A trapdoor.

The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.

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

Any product or offspring; - used contemptuously.

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

The buds or branches produced from underground stems.

(nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine

The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.

(slang) A gullet.

The mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs

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

Call forth

A floodgate; a sluice gate.

Lay spawn;

(Scotland) A bedstead.

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

The act of hatching.

(figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.

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

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

(informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).

(transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.

To emerge from an egg.

To break open when a young animal emerges from it.

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

(transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

To close with a hatch or hatches.

The act of hatching.

Development; disclosure; discovery.

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

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

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

A flood gate; a sluice gate.

A bedstead.

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.

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

The production of young from an egg

Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

A movable barrier covering a hatchway

Emerge from the eggs;

Devise or invent;

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

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

Sit on (eggs);