Difference between Brood and Hatch

What is the difference between Brood and Hatch?

Brood as a verb is to keep an egg warm to make it hatch. while Hatch as a verb is (of young animals) to emerge from an egg.

Brood

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To keep an egg warm to make it hatch. To protect. To dwell upon moodily and at length.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. The children in one family.

Example sentence: The thing I think about all the time is, what if I'd taken a job at Deloitte instead? They offered me one. I just think if I'd taken literally any other job, Cambridge Analytica wouldn't exist. You have no idea how much I brood on this.

Hatch

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (of young animals) To emerge from an egg.(of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.To devise. (hatch a plan)To shade an area of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines, particularly with lines which cross each other: cross-hatch.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.A trapdoor.An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items.A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.A narrow passageway between the decks of a ship or submarine.A gullet.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).As in the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched." A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).

Example sentence: No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

We hope you now know whether to use Brood or Hatch in your sentence.

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