Latch On

Definition: Latch On

Latch On

Verb

1. Adopt, as of ideas.

2. Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Latch On

A leaky rear latch on the listing bark lifted right up and the water rushed in. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Latch on to Literature: A Teacher's Guide to 12 Caldecott Medal and Honor Books (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Steel production. Molten steel for war industries. A ladle of molten iron is poured into an opne hearth furnace for coversion into steel. Note safety latch on the crane hook. Republic, Youngstown. Credit: Library of Congress.

Latch on the door of the mess hall in a lumber camp in Forest County, Wisconsin. This is a common type of construction in the cut-over regions, especially in lumber camps. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Expression using "latch on": latch on to. Additional references.

Chinese 

抱粗腿 (latch on to the rich and powerful). (various references)

German

sich festhalten (hang on, hold on), sich festbeißen, sich einschließen (join in), schalten (change gear, connect, get it, get the message, place, react, shift, switch), kapieren (catch on, dig, get, savvy, twig, understand). (various references)

Hungarian

csatlakozik vmihez (to join in, to latch on to sg), bekapcsolódik vmibe (to latch on to sg). (various references)

Pig Latin

atchlay onay.(various references)

Romanian

pricepe (apprehend, catch, catch on, come it, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton, enter into, perceive, pick out, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, take, take in, tumble to, understand), înţelege (agree, apprehend, bottom, catch, come it, compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, grasp, interpret, make of, perceive, read, realize, savvy, scheme, see, see into, seize, take, tumble to, twig, understand). (various references)

Spanish

comprender (appreciate, bear in, catch, catch the point, come across, comprehend, comprise, cover, dig, follow, get, grasp, include, incorporate, interpret, perceive, Pierce, realise, realize, savvy, see, see the light, take in, to understand, trace, twig, understand). (various references)

Swedish

omfatta (comprehend, cover, embrace, encompass, espouse, include, latch on to, span), fatta (catch, compass, conceive, cotton on, get, grasp, latch on to, lay hold of, pick up, savvy, see, seize, take, take in, understand), förstås (catch, comprehend, figure out, follow, gather, grasp, have, Ken, know, latch on to, realise, see, take, understand), förstå (catch, comprehend, comprehending, figure out, follow, gather, grasp, have, Ken, know, latch on to, realize, see, take, understand), få tag i (come across, find, get hold of, latch on to, obtain, track), ansluta sig till (accede to, associate oneself with, attach oneself to, espouse, fall in with, join, latch on to, second). (various references)

Thai

เข้าสิ่งที่พู�" (โ�"ยเฉพาะเรื่องที่ตลก). (various references)

Turkish

kavramak (absorb, apperceive, appreciate, apprehend, bite, catch, catch on, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, come home, compass, comprehend, conceive, cup, dawn on, digest, discern, fathom, get, get a grip, get hold of, grasp, grip, hold, latch on to, nail, perceive, pick up, realize, see into, seize, sum up, twig, understand), benimsemek (adopt, assimilate, be sold on, commandeer, embrace, espouse, interiorize, internalize, latch on to, seize, seize upon, take up seriously), asılı durmak (be slung from, hang, hang on, latch on to, poise), anlamak (absorb, accept, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, be knowledgeable about, be up to, catch, catch on, click, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton on to, dawn on, deduce, dig, discern, discover, distinguish, fathom, feel, figure out, get, get a grip, get a grip on, get the message, grasp, grip, latch on to, make of, pick out, read, realize, rumble, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, sum up, take in, twig, understand, wake to, waken, work out). (various references)

Ukrainian

причеплюватися. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chalot, lochan.

-2 letters: altho, canto, chant, cloth, cotan, latch, loach, loath, lotah, nacho, natch, notal, notch, octal, octan, talon, tolan, tonal.

-3 letters: alto, calo, cant, chao, chat, chon, clan, clon, clot, coal, coat, cola, colt, halo, halt, hant, holt, lath, loan, loca, loch, lota, loth, nota, oath, tach, taco, talc, than, tola.

-4 letters: act.

+2 letters: chelation, decathlon, haplontic.

+3 letters: anacolutha, blackthorn, catholicon, chelations, chlorinate, coelacanth, decathlons, inchoately, nonchalant, nonethical, postlaunch.

+4 letters: anacoluthic, anacoluthon, anthropical, antialcohol, blackthorns, catholicons, cephalothin, chlorinated, chlorinates, chlorinator, coelacanths, granolithic, hypocentral, lycanthrope, lycanthropy, nonathletic, notochordal, potlatching, sycophantly, thrasonical, trichomonal, untouchable.

+5 letters: anacoluthons, anthological, biotechnical, cartoonishly, cephalothins, chlorinating, chlorination, chlorinators, commonwealth, cytochalasin, dechlorinate, echolocation, endotracheal, ethnological, flowcharting, geotechnical, hallucinator, hypnotically, inchoatively, lycanthropes, lycanthropic, nonchalantly, nontechnical, phenotypical, phonetically, photonuclear, plainclothes, technobabble, trochanteral, unhistorical, unrhetorical, untouchables, zootechnical.