Hatch or The Hatch may refer to:

Common meanings

Biology

* Hatch, to emerge from an

egg An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the ...

* Hatch(ing), the process of

egg incubation Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release. Egg incubation is done under favorable environmental conditions, possibl ...

Portals

Cargo hatch 120px, View of the hold of a container ship A ship's hold or cargo hold is a space for carrying cargo in a ship or airplane compartment. Description Cargo in holds may be either packaged in crates, bales, etc., or unpackaged (bulk cargo). Acc ...

of a ship * Hatch, a sealed or secure

door A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress (entry) into and egress (exit) from an enclosure. The created opening in the wall is a ''doorway'' or ''portal''. A door's essential and primary purpose is to provide securit ...

of a spacecraft * Hatch, the bottom half of a

Dutch door A Dutch door (American English), stable door (British English), or half door (Hiberno-English) is a door divided in such a fashion that the bottom half (the hatch) may remain shut while the top half opens. They were known in early New Englan ...

* Hatch, the reardoor of a

Hatchback A hatchback is a car body style, car body configuration with a rear door that swings upward to provide access to the main interior of the car as a cargo area rather than just to a separated trunk. Hatchbacks may feature fold-down second-row sea ...

car * Hatch, a sealed or secure horizontal door in the bottom of a deck of a ship, submarine or aircraft, see

ship door A compartment is a portion of the space within a ship defined vertically between decks and horizontally between bulkheads. It is analogous to a room within a building, and may provide watertight subdivision of the ship's hull important in retaini ...

* Hatch, a

sluice gate A sluice ( ) is a water channel containing a sluice gate, a type of lock to manage the water flow and water level. There are various types of sluice gates, including flap sluice gates and fan gates. Different depths are calculated when design s ...

* Hatch, a

trapdoor A trapdoor or hatch is a sliding or hinged door that is flush with the surface of a floor, ceiling, or roof. It is traditionally small in size. It was invented to facilitate the hoisting of grain up through mills, however, its list of uses has ...

, a door on a floor or ceiling

Places

Antarctica

* Hatch Islands, Wilkes Land, Antarctica * Hatch Plain, Coats Land, Antarctica

Australia

* The Hatch, New South Wales, a suburb within

Port Macquarie-Hastings Council Port Macquarie-Hastings Council is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is located adjacent to the Hastings River, the Pacific Highway (Australia), Pacific ...

England

Hatch, Bedfordshire Hatch is a hamlet in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It is located a little over a mile south-west of the market town of Sandy, and forms part of the Northill civil parish. Budna and Thorncote Green Thorncote G ...

, a hamlet *

Hatch Beauchamp Hatch Beauchamp is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated south east of Taunton. The village has a population of 620. History The manor of "Hache" dates from Saxon times and became the ''caput'' of a feudal barony after ...

, Somerset * Hatch Park, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Kent * East Hatch and

West Hatch West Hatch is a hamlet and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated south east of Taunton. It has a population of 306. History The name of the hamlet indicates it lies to the west of Hatch Beauchamp. The parish of West Hatch was part of t ...

, hamlets within the parish of West Tisbury, Wiltshire *

, hamlet and civil parish in Somerset

United States

Hatch, Idaho Hatch is an unincorporated community in Caribou County, in the U.S. state of Idaho Idaho ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain states, Mountain West subregions of the Western United States. It borders ...

, an unincorporated community * Hatch, Missouri, an unincorporated community *

Hatch, New Mexico Hatch is a village in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,648 at the 2010 census. The town is experiencing moderate growth, along with its outliers of Salem, Arrey, Derry, and Rincon. Hatch is widely known as th ...

, a village *

Hatch, Utah Hatch is a town in Garfield County, Utah, United States. The population was 132 at the 2020 census. It is south of Salt Lake City. History Hatch was originally called "Mammoth", and under the latter name was settled in 1872. A post office cal ...

, a town * Hatch Airport, an airport in

Stayton, Oregon Stayton is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States, located southeast of the state Capital (political), capital, Salem, Oregon, Salem, on Oregon Route 22. It is south of Sublimity, Oregon, Sublimity and east of Aumsville, Oregon, Aumsvill ...

People with the name

Hatch (surname) Hatch is an English surname taken by people living near an important gate or entrance of some kind, or people living in a locality with this or a similar name. The Old English for gate is ''hœcce''. Many notable people have this surname, amo ...

* Harrison

Hatch Rosdahl Harrison Lynn Rosdahl (August 24, 1941 – June 15, 2004) was an American professional football defensive lineman who played three seasons in the American Football League (AFL) with the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs. Rosdahl played college ...

(1941–2004), American football player

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Hatch, a magazine website published by Australian college

Macleay College Macleay College is an Australian accredited higher education provider located in Sydney and Melbourne. Established in 1988, the college offers two-year bachelor's degrees in advertising and media, digital media, journalism and business; and on ...

* Hatch, a bug-like villain from the TV show ''

Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 ''Hot Wheels Battle Force 5'' is an animated science fiction television series created by Mattel, Nelvana, and Nerd Corps Entertainment, based on the Hot Wheels toy line by the American toy maker, Mattel which was introduced in 1968. A two-epis ...

'' * The Hatch, the third DHARMA Initiative station in the television show ''Lost''

Other uses

Hatch chile New Mexico chile or New Mexican chile (Scientific name: ''Capsicum annuum'' 'New Mexico Group'; , ) is a cultivar group of the chile pepper from the US state of New Mexico, first grown by Pueblo and Hispano communities throughout Santa Fe de Nuev ...

, sub-cultivars of the New Mexico chile pepper cultivar group grown near Hatch, New Mexico *

Hatch (e-commerce company) Hatch is an Amsterdam-based ecommerce platform that was founded in July 2011 under the name Iceleads by serial entrepreneur Joris Kroese and founding partner Icecat as being part of the iMerge group that provided EUR 500,000 seed capital. The com ...

, an ecommerce platform based in Amsterdam *

Hatch Ltd Hatch is a global multidisciplinary management, engineering and development consultancy. Its group companies have more than 10,000 staff in 70+ offices. In 2015, Hatch was ranked as a top 20 International Design Firm according to the Engineerin ...

, an engineering and development consulting company based in Canada * ''Hatch''-class lifeboat, formerly operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution of the United Kingdom and Ireland *

Mini Hatch The Mini (stylised as MINI) supermini range, marketed under various names such as Mini Cooper, Mini Hatch, Mini Hardtop, Mini One, and Mini John Cooper Works, are a family of Retro-style automobile, retro-styled three-door hatchback, two-door ...

, a supermini car