Patching and Hatching

noun

• The act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it.

verb

• To join or unite the pieces of.
  • usage: "patch the skirt"
  • synonyms: patch, piece
• Provide with a patch; also used metaphorically.
  • usage: "The field was patched with snow"
  • synonyms: patch
• Mend by putting a patch on.
  • usage: "patch a hole"
  • synonyms: patch, patch up
• Repair by adding pieces.
  • usage: "She pieced the china cup"
  • synonyms: piece, patch

noun

• The production of young from an egg.
  • synonyms: hatch
• Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines.
  • synonyms: hatch, crosshatch, hachure

verb

• Emerge from the eggs.
  • usage: "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"
  • synonyms: hatch
• Devise or invent.
  • usage: "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"
  • synonyms: think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct
• Inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating.
  • synonyms: hatch
• Draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper.
  • usage: "hatch the sheet"
  • synonyms: hatch
• Sit on (eggs. )
  • usage: "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
  • synonyms: brood, hatch, cover, incubate

• (n.) 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.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Hatch.