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Definition of Latch on

1. Verb. Take hold of or attach to. "The biochip latches onto the genes"

2. Verb. Adopt. "Take up new ideas"

3. Verb. Understand, usually after some initial difficulty. "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"

Definition of Latch on

1. Verb. To grasp firmly; to become attached to. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Latch On

lasts lat latah latahs latakia latakias latamoxef latanier latanier palm latanoprost

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Literary usage of Latch on

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"-»ng—Principle of the Magnetic latch on the 1914 Caa\\\at. N. T>a\to ufi tre not drawn to «cale but »re exaggerated in order \.o ..."

2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1888)
"The Swed. laka pâ, to put hot wa into a mashing-tub (Widegren), is precisely the prov. latch on, to put water on the mash when the first wort 1 run off ..."

3. Notes on English Etymology: Chiefly Reprinted from the Transactions of the by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"E. latch on, to put water on the mash when the first wort has run off (Halliwell). The prov. E. latch, to catch, is from a different root; ..."

4. Reclaiming the Old House by Charles Edward Hooper (1913)
"The latch on the opposite side with its simple working parts is hardly less ... A farmer who had a fine old latch on his front door volunteered the ..."

5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"HaL Sw. bjork-taka, the juice of birch-trees ; sal-laka, brine ; laka pâ, as E. to leek, or latch on in brewing. The same root is seen in Lat. ..."

6. Railway Maintenance Engineering: With Notes on Construction by William Hamilton Sellew (1915)
"The small circles at the intersection of the vertical lines and the horizontal lines show the lever by which the bar is worked, for example, the latch on ..."

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