Hatching vs. Hatchling — What's the Difference?

Hatching (hachure in French) is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing (or painting or scribing) closely spaced parallel lines. (It is also used in monochromatic heraldic representations to indicate what the tincture of a "full-colour" emblazon would be.) When lines are placed at an angle to one another, it is called cross-hatching.

In oviparous biology, a hatchling is a newly hatched fish, amphibian, reptile, or bird. A group of mammals called monotremes lay eggs, and their young are hatchlings as well.

Fine lines used in graphic arts to show shading.

A newly hatched animal.

The process of decorating with such lines.

A newly hatched bird, reptile or other animal that has emerged from an egg.

A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.

Any recently hatched animal (especially birds)

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.

Present participle of 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.

The production of young from an egg

Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines