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latch

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English

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latch

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Pronunciation

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enPR:lăch,IPA^(key): /læt͡ʃ/
Audio(US): (file)
Rhymes:-ætʃ

Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishlacchen(“to seize, catch, grasp”,verb), fromOld Englishlæċċan(“to grasp, take hold of, catch, seize”), fromProto-Germanic*lakjaną,*lakwijaną,*lakkijaną(“to seize”), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)leh₂g-,*(s)leh₂gʷ-(“to take, seize”). Cognate withMiddle Dutchlakken(“to grasp, catch”).

Verb

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latch (third-person singular simple presentlatches,present participlelatching,simple past and past participlelatchedor(obsolete)laught)

Toclose orlock as if with a latch.
(transitive) Tocatch;lay hold of.
- c.1606 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene iii]:
  Where hearing should notlatch them.
(databases) To use a latch(kind of lightweight lock).

Derived terms

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Translations

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to close with a latch

Esperanto:rigli
Finnish:salvata (fi),panna säppiin
Galician:pechar (gl)
German:verriegeln (de),einrasten (de),einklinken (de),sperren (de),zuschnappen (de),schließen (de),zuklinken
Maori:whakarawa
Ottoman Turkish:مانداللامق(mandallamak)
Portuguese:trincar (pt)
Spanish:apestillar (es),acerrojar (es)
Swedish:regla (sv)
Turkish:mandallamak (tr)

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishlatche,lacche(“a latch; a trap”), fromlacchen(“to seize, catch, grasp”), fromOld Englishlæċċan(“to grasp, take hold of, catch, seize”). See above for more.

Noun

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latch (plurallatches)

Afastening for adoor that has abar that fits into anotch orslot, and islifted by alever orstring from either side.
- 1912 October,Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, inThe All-Story, New York, N.Y.:Frank A. Munsey Co.,→OCLC; republished as chapter 4, inTarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.:A. L. Burt Company,1914 June,→OCLC:
  The cleverly constructedlatch which Clayton had made for the door had sprung as Kerchak passed out; nor could the apes find means of ingress through the heavily barred windows.
(electronics) Anelectronic circuit that is like aflip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
(obsolete) Alatching.
(obsolete) Acrossbow.
(obsolete) That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
- c.1360s (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e.,Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Romaunt of the Rose”, in [William Thynne], editor,The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for]Iohn Reynes […], published1542,→OCLC:
  Love will none other birde catch,
  Though he set either nette orlatch
  (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
Abreastfeeding baby'sconnection to thebreast.
(databases) Alightweight lock toprotect internal structures from being modified by multipleconcurrent accesses.

fastening for a door

Albanian:reze (sq),bakllama (sq)
Arabic:زِلاَج,ضَبَّة(ḍabba),مِزْلاَج
Armenian:please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani:qapı sürgüsü
Belarusian:клямка f(kljamka)
Bulgarian:резе (bg) n(reze),мандало (bg) n(mandalo)
Catalan:pestell (ca) m,llisquet (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin:門閂 /门闩 (zh)(ménshuān),門釦 /门扣 (zh)(ménkòu),门釦 (zh)(ménkòu)
Czech:petlice f
Dutch:klink (nl) f
Esperanto:anso,klinko,riglilo
Finnish:säppi (fi),salpa (fi)
French:loquet (fr) m
Galician:pecho (gl) m,caravilla f,martabela f
Georgian:please add this translation if you can
German:Riegel (de) m,Falle (de) f,Klinke (de) f,Sperre (de) f,Verriegelung (de) f,Schnappverschluss m,Schnappriegel m,Anschlag (de) m,Verschluss (de) m,Verschlusshebel m,Schnapper (de) m,Schnäpper m,Rastklinke f,Arretierung (de) f
Greek:μάνταλο (el) m(mántalo),σύρτης (el) m(sýrtis)
Hebrew:בריח (he) m(baríakh)
Hindi:सिटकनी(siṭaknī),कुंडी (hi)(kuṇḍī),अर्गल (hi)(argal)
Hungarian:retesz (hu)
Icelandic:please add this translation if you can
Indonesian:selot (id)
Italian:chiavistello (it) m,fermo (it) m
Japanese:掛け金 (ja)(かけがね, kakegane),ラッチ (ja)(ratchi)
Khmer:គន្លឹះទ្វារ(kɔɔnlɨh tviə)
Korean:걸쇠(geolsoe)
Latvian:please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian:please add this translation if you can
Malayalam:കുറ്റി (ml)(kuṟṟi)
Maltese:please add this translation if you can
Maori:tūtaki,whakarawa,rawe (mi)
Mongolian:түгжээ (mn)(tügžee),оньс (mn)(onʹs)
Nepali:please add this translation if you can
Ottoman Turkish:ماندال(mandal),كلید(kilid),مغلاق(miğlak)
Persian:کلون (fa)(kolun)
Polish:zasuwa (pl) f,rygiel (pl) m,antaba (pl) f
Portuguese:tranca (pt) f,trinco (pt)
Romanian:zăvor (ro) n,zăvoare n pl
Russian:щеко́лда (ru) f(ščekólda),задви́жка (ru) f(zadvížka),защёлка (ru) f(zaščólka),(дверно́й)запо́р (ru) m(zapór),засо́в (ru) m(zasóv)
Serbo-Croatian:zasun (sh),reza (sh),zavoranj (sh) m
Spanish:cerrojo (es) m,pestillo (es) m,falleba (es) f,piesllo m,picaporte (es) m
Swedish:hasp,regel (sv)
Tagalog:busulan
Tajik:лукидон(lukidon)
Thai:กลอน (th)(glɔɔn)
Ukrainian:за́сув m(zásuv)
Uzbek:gaʻlaqa,loʻkidon (uz)
Vietnamese:chốt cửa,then cửa
Welsh:clicied f

flip-flop electronic circuit

Chinese:
Mandarin:锁存器 (zh)(suǒcúnqì)
Finnish:salpa (fi),kiikku (fi)
German:Klinkenschalter m,Auffangregister n,Signalschalter m
Greek:μανταλωτής (el) m(mantalotís),μανδαλωτής (el)(mandalotís)
Polish:przerzutnik m
Portuguese:flip-flop m
Spanish:biestable (es) m
Swedish:låskrets

latching

crossbow

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Telugu:^{(pleaseverify)}గడియ (te)(gaḍiya)

Etymology 3

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CompareFrenchlécher(“to lick”).

Verb

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latch (third-person singular simple presentlatches,present participlelatching,simple past and past participlelatched)

(obsolete) Tosmear; toanoint.
- c.1595–1596 (date written),William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene ii]:
  But hast thou yetlatch'd the Athenian's eyes
  With the love-juice , as I did bid thee do?