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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: take hold of or attach to; "The biochip latches onto the genes"
2: adopt; "take up new ideas" [syn: take up, latch on, fasten on, hook on, seize on]
3: understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on" [syn: catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see latch onto