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LATCHING

Definitions: LATCHING

LATCHING

Noun

1. A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Latch

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LATCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references)



Specialty Definitions: LATCHING

DomainDefinitions

Computing

An arrangement whereby a circuit is held in position, e. g. in read-out equipment, until previous operating circuits are ready to change this circuit. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym by domain: lock-in (mechanical engineering).

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Crosswords: LATCHING

English words defined with "LATCHING": Lasket. (references)
Specialty definitions using "LATCHING": accumulative latching mechanical systemFINAL INSPECTOR, TRUCK TRAILER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: LATCHING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Modern Rugmaking and Tapestry Techniques: Speed Hook Tufting, Rya and Double-Time Latching (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "LATCHING".

PlayCaption
Closing and latching a squeaky chain-link gate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: LATCHING

"LATCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LATCHING" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%2274,468

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: LATCHING

Expression using "LATCHING": accumulative latching mechanical system. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LATCHING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

latching relay

33

latching relays

15

latching solenoid

5

latching

3

latching solenoids

3

circuit latching

3

latching switch

2

latching magnetic solenoids

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LATCHING

Language Translations for "LATCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

"上 (keyed, Keying, latched). (various references)

   

Danish

  

fastlåsning (clutching, locking), falle (dog, latch, lock, pawl). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

latching (locking), vergrendeling (activation, brake, clutching, interlock, interlocking, locking, safety lock), vastzetpal (dog, latch, lock, pawl). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lukitus (capture, capturing, clamping, interlocking, lock, locking, lock-on). (various references)

   

French

  

verrouillage (latch), cliquet (latch). (various references)

   

German

  

Zwischenspeichern, einschnappend, einklinkend. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καστάνια (catch, dog, latch, lock, pawl, ratchet, ratchet and pawl, ratchet gearing), άγκιστρο αναστολέας (dog, latch, lock, pawl), "με κλείδωμα". (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

penggrendelan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

gancio nottolino (dog, latch, lock, pawl), gancio d'arresto (dog, latch, lock, pawl), bloccaggio (blanking, blockage, blocking, clutching, deadlock, interlock, lock, locking, mute, scotching), arresto (adjustable stop, apprehension, arrest, blowing out, bolt, capture, catch, check, click, close-down, cut out, deadlock, detention, disconnect, dog, extinction, halt, hangup, imprisonment, latch, laying down, lock, locking, outer control lever, pawl, pin, position stop, put out of operation, put out of service, rack element, ratchet, reactor shutdown, retainer, scotching, sentence of detention, shutdown, shut-down, stall, stalling, stand, standstill, stop, stoppage, taking off the line, to blow down, to blow out, to de-commission). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

差し手 (slipping one's hand beneath the opponent's arm and latching on to the underside of his belt). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さして (a move, slipping one's hand beneath the opponent's arm and latching on to the underside of his belt). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

걸 를 거. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atchinglay

   

Portuguese

  

lingueta (bolt, catch, craddle, dog, feather, feed gate, gate, latch, lock, pallet, pawl, spline, tongue), bloqueio (atrioventricular block, A-V block, binding, blanking, block, blockade, blockage, bolting, cardiac block, heart block, heart-block, interlock, jamming, lock, locking, mute), bloqueamento (deadlock, hangup, lock out, locking, lock-out, protection). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

запирать защелкивание. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gatillo de parada (dog, latch, lock, pawl), enclavamiento (interlock, interlocking, locking). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

låsning (clamping, deadlock, interlocking, lock, locking). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: LATCHING

Derivations

Words ending with "LATCHING": potlatching, unlatching. (additional references)


Misspellings

"LATCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alchin, lacting, lithping, Lutschine. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LATCHING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "LATCHING" (pronounced la"khing)
4-a" kh i ngattaching, catching, dispatching, hatching, matching, patching, scratching, snatching.
3-kh i ngapproaching, arching, beaching, belching, bleaching, branching, breaching, broaching, bunching, clinching, clutching, coaching, crouching, crunching, ditching, drenching, encroaching, enriching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hitching, impeaching, inching, itching, launching, leaching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, mulching, munching, overarching, overreaching, pinching, pitching, poaching, preaching, punching, quenching, ranching, reaching, researching, retouching, retrenching, scorching, screeching, searching, sketching, slouching, snitching, squelching, stanching, stitching, stretching, switching, teaching, torching, touching, twitching, unflinching, vouching, watching, witching, wrenching.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: LATCHING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-l-n-t"

-1 letter: catling, gnathic, halting, lathing, talcing.

-2 letters: aching, acting, alight, canthi, catlin, chital, glitch, haling, hating, lacing, tincal.

-3 letters: acing, actin, aitch, algin, align, antic, chain, chang, chant, china, clang, cling, giant, glint, laich, laigh, laith, latch, lathi, liang, licht, ligan, light, linac, linga, natch, night, thing, tical.

-4 letters: agin, alit, anil, anti, cain, cant, chat, chia, chin, chit, clag, clan, clit, gain, gait, ghat, gilt, glia, gnat, hail, halt, hang, hant, hila, hilt, hint, inch, itch, laic, lain, lang, lath, lati, lich, ling, lint, nail, nigh, tach, tail, tain, talc, tali, tang, than, thin, ting.

-5 letters: act, ail, ain, ait, alt, ani, ant, can, cat, chi, cig, gal, gan, gat, ghi, gin, git, hag, hat, hic, hin, hit, ich, lac, lag, lat, lin, lit, nag, nah, nil, nit, nth, tag, tan, tic, til, tin.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-l-n-t"
 

+1 letter: chelating, hatchling, trachling.

 

+2 letters: claughting, hatcheling, hatchlings, scathingly, trauchling, unlatching.

 

+3 letters: candlelight, granolithic, hatchelling, latchstring, potlatching.

 

+4 letters: anthological, antilynching, backlighting, candlelights, cartwheeling, chlorinating, enchantingly, ethnological, flowcharting, geotechnical, latchstrings.

 

+5 letters: blacksmithing, candlelighted, candlelighter, catholicizing, changeability, flowchartings, hallucinating, laughingstock, stickhandling, technological.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LATCHING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 54 43 48 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .-    -    -.-.    ....    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01010100 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#84 &#67 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0054 0043 0048 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4635543742434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Sounds
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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