latching
present participle oflatch
latch
verb[IorT]
uk/lætʃ/us/lætʃ/toclose, orclosesomething, with a latch
Locking and bolting
- bar
- batten
- bolt
- handcuff
- hermetically
- latch
- lock
- lock (something) up
- locksomeoneout
- locksomethingaway
- locksomethingin
- lockable
- love lock
- manacle
- padlock
- relock
- shut
- shutsomeoneaway
- under lock and keyidiom
Phrasal verbs
latch on
latch ontosomething
latch ontosomeone
Examplesoflatching
latching
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The discussion of (a) will shed light on the process of grammaticallatchingdescribed in the previous section.
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Let us now discuss what this grammaticallatchingachieves interactionally.
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Palatal clefting prevents the baby fromlatchingon to the breast as suction cannot be developed.
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Is there any relationship between the types of casemarkers employed in given languages and the (im) possibility of long-distance grammaticallatchingto achieve the embedding of discourse within a sentence?
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Those gains were achieved sometimes bylatchingon to local independence movements or local revolutionary movements, infiltrating them and taking them over.
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In addition to the "latching-on" situation, the consultation situation has been farcical.
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They arelatchingonto that.
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Latchingswitches do not have this feature and therefore are normally not used with a magnetic starter.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Another example built with folding wings with automatic controllatching.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To reduce power consumption in the contactor coils,latchingcontactors are used, which have two operating coils.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Players must enter the stations, one at a time,latchingthe gate behind them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An earth leakage circuit breaker includes a specializedlatchingrelay.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Both of the satellites's solar arrays had to be jettisoned prior to retrieval when sensors indicated improperlatchingfollowing their retraction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Investigation showed that the handles on the hatches could be improperly forced shut without thelatchingpins locking in place.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Osteoclasts resorb the bones by firstlatchingonto the bone.
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- high dosage
- high drama
- high earner
- high education
- high efficiency
- high elasticity
- high elevation
- high-end
- high-end
- high-end fashion
- high-end model
- high-end product
- high-end restaurant
- high-energy electron
- high-energy particle
- high-energy photon
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- higher
- higher court
- higher-court
- higher education
- higher-education
- higher-income family
- higher-income household
- higher-up