(n.) That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
(n.) A movable piece which holds anything in place by entering a notch or cavity; specifically, the catch which holds a door or gate when closed, though it be not bolted.
(n.) A latching.
(n.) A crossbow.
(n.) To catch so as to hold.
(n.) To catch or fasten by means of a latch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
(2) For studies of motor performance in the baboon, regarding precise finger movements, a new latch-box was developed.
(3) Arrieta recalls: “With my first child I sterilised everything my baby came into contact with and then I realised the American Pediatric Association doesn’t recommend that, while other studies show it increases the risk of allergies and asthma.” Arrieta points out: “A child who breastfeeds constantly will be latched on to skin which, microbiologically speaking, is very dirty.
(4) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
(5) The time course of light production, myosin light chain phosphorylation, shortening velocity at zero load, and active stress were measured in three stimulus protocols: depolarization with 109 mM potassium chloride at 22 degrees C, 37 degrees C, and 37 degrees C, followed by a reduction in potassium chloride to 20 mM to induce stress maintenance with basal phosphorylation (latch).
(6) Likud then voted in a new list in 2012 full of extremists who latched on to the xenophobia theme.
(7) LATCH has affected the medical library in several ways.
(8) In the bronchus, cross-sectional area of true muscle may constitute only 20-30% of the total tissue cross section, and load-independent cycling rate varies fourfold during the course of a contraction because of the occurrence of normally cycling and latch bridges.
(9) We have proposed a model that incorporates a dephosphorylated "latch bridge" to explain the mechanics and energetics of smooth muscle.
(10) Thus cross-bridge phosphorylation may suffice to determine force generation in vascular smooth muscle if both phosphorylated and dephosphorylated attached cross bridges (or latch bridges) contribute to active stress.
(11) Jimi Heselden, who latched on to an international craze for the upright, motorised "green commuter machines", was testing a cross-country version when he skidded into the river Wharfe which runs beside his Yorkshire estate.
(12) Since latch-up induction occurs at wave-lengths longer than 580 nm, it may depend on the 540 pigment or on an undetected red absorbing pigment.
(13) Koke latches onto a loose ball down the left and fires a low cross through the area.
(14) The moment had come for Defoe – initially very big on economy of effort – to use all that cleverly conserved energy to remind everyone of his enduring ability and, latching on to Johnson’s pass, the 33-year-old duly obliged.
(15) Inside the brain, THC latches on to what are called cannabinoid receptors.
(16) Liverpool 2-0 Cardiff City (Sterling 41) Luis Suarez turns provider, latching on to long defence-splitting pass from the back to catch the Cardiff City back four flat-footed.
(17) 7: 255-318, 1957) to the latch-bridge model to predict the relationship between isotonic shortening velocity and phosphorylation.
(18) On the campaign trail in Iowa on Wednesday, Obama latched on to some of the remarks made by Romney, in particular a bizarre one about being offered "whole binders full of women" when searching for female recruits to his cabinet when he was governor of Massachusetts.
(19) Most problems, such as sore nipples, engorgement and pain with latch-on, subside after several weeks; symptomatic relief and emotional support from the family physician during this period are crucial.
(20) Because stretch should detach cross bridges, I modified the aequorin-based latch-bridge model to account for stretch-induced cross-bridge detachment.
Natch
Definition:
(n.) The rump of beef; esp., the lower and back part of the rump.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sacs of the upper half of the everted intestine taken from bile fistula rats were incubated in a buffered solution containing mono-olein, (14)C-labelled oleic acid and bile salt (sodium taurocholate (NaTch) in concentrations exceeding the critical micellar concentration).2.
(2) ALICE TAYLOR Developer Major cities will look like Tokyo: whole families will live in tiny, boxlike apartments, with gadgets in every corner (including a multi-material 3D printer, natch) and grandparents living in - without functioning pensions, they will have to.
(3) Updated at 11.21pm BST 11.19pm BST QPR have signed Niko Kranjcar and Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Tom Carroll, Aitch confirms through his car window, natch.
(4) And while this being Beyoncé , the trainers are Isabel Marant (natch) and the flats by Charlotte Olympia, her look is still recognisably the staple wardrobe of the exhausted new mother.
(5) There were other eye-rolling moments during the weekend, like the conversation – over quinoa porridge, natch – about the merits of buckwheat pillows (consensus – they’re good); or the chorus of “Is it vegan?
(6) Fisheries minster Beynon another to announce he's leaving Govt (voluntarily natch).
(7) At 37 degrees C incubation temperature increasing the NaTch concentration enhanced both uptake and esterification.
(8) He's aided by slimy counsellor Petyr Baelish (Aidan Gillen – natch) and eunuch adviser Varys (Conleth Hill) who, happily, has achieved closure over the trauma around his missing crown jewels.
(9) Adding whole rat bile caused uptake to decrease at all NaTch concentrations but had only a slight and variable effect on esterification.3.
(10) I went on to do a PhD (Theories of Pleasure, natch) but I never finished it as the money ran out.
(11) Rachel Mayeri , who makes films for a chimp audience (using human actors dressed as chimps, natch), goes further: wildlife documentaries are yet more pernicious.
(12) Ben Wright (@wrightben) @ lengeldavid Unbelievable hitting by Sandoval but the groundwork being done by Pagan and Scutaro (both ex-Mets, natch), going deep into ABs.
(13) Meanwhile, those still wearing bras became "lingerie-dependent", sagging to the point of (natch) needing bras.
(14) lusoriae crossed the dorsal face of esophagus between the 4th and 2nd cervical vertebrae where they provoked at neat natch.
(15) The women who decline to call themselves feminist but are nevertheless labelled feminist by other people, usually, natch, feminists.