Difference between Door and Hatch

What is the difference between Door and Hatch?

Door as a noun is a portal of entry into a building or room, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. doors are frequently made of wood or metal. may have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key. while Hatch as a noun is a horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.

Door

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A portal of entry into a building or room, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key. An non-physical entry into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc. A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in the front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

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: I would say that as a government employee, I am subject to the Hatch Act.

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

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