latch on   (TTS Sound)

The verb latch on has 3 senses

• latch on -- (take hold of or attach to; "The biochip latches onto the genes")


• take up, latch on, fasten on, hook on, seize on -- (adopt; "take up new ideas")


• catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it -- (understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on")