hatch-v; 4 Senses

Sense Number 1: emerge from an egg, chrysalis, etc.

Examples:
The chick hatched with its feet malformed.
Young orb-weaver spiders hatch from eggs and look like tiny adults.

Mappings:
VerbNet: grow-26.2
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: hatch.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: incubate; cause to hatch

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1 HATCH NP2[patient[concrete]]

Examples:
Jeremy hatched the egg at the next full moon.
Zoo Atlanta hatched a rare Arakan forest turtle this week.
Can scientists hatch a dinosaur egg?
Force-air incubators are large, have a fan, and hatch a larger number of eggs.

Mappings:
VerbNet: grow-26.2
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: hatch.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5

Sense Number 3: devise or create

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1 HATCH NP2[patient[abstract]]

Examples:
Three Investors Hatch A New Way of Life
Doonesbury' and Apple hatched a comic surprise.
East Harlem hatched a model for public school choice.
Vets hatched a creative plan to lure an elephant to surgery.
Jefferson hatched a plot to rob Bradford.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: Invention
PropBank: hatch.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 4: mark with thin, closely spaced lines

Commentary:
NOTE: The lines or bands may be etched, inlayed, drawn, etc.

Examples:
The area hatched with plain lines represents the set of points (x, y).
The drawing was inked with a brush and hatched with a micron pen.
The rapier was hatched with silver.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3, 4