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latching

verb

Meaning

  1. To close or lock as if with a latch.
  2. To catch; lay hold of.
  3. To smear; to anoint.
  4. A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail.
  5. The situation where one speaker's utterance immediately follows another speaker's utterance, without pause or overlap.
  6. Of something that latches.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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