unlatched

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Took around 5 unlatched ones off me this summer, about 5 more latched and unlatched from my dog and a few off my gf.

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Quick take

Of a gate, etc., not latched, or that has been unlatched.

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adjective

Of a gate, etc., not latched, or that has been unlatched.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for unlatched.

adjective

Of a gate, etc., not latched, or that has been unlatched.

Example sentences

Took around 5 unlatched ones off me this summer, about 5 more latched and unlatched from my dog and a few off my gf.

If the door is unlatched, the dishes are dirty.

Was that a A fully unlatched hood or one that is caught by the manual safety latch?

A Honda recall that involved a kids seat suddenly becoming unlatched and possibly catapulting a child during a car crash.

The fans are large so they move a high volume of air at a low speed, the door doesn't move is left unlatched.

The door can still be designed to open outward and also able to be unlatched from the inside: those aren’t mutually exclusive properties.

It could be a frictionless spring-loaded door with latches to hold it open or closed and it bounces between states when it's unlatched.

And later that they entered through an unlocked door, which they (it sounds like) kept unlatched by inserting something between the latch and the doorjamb.

Except the Roger beep coming from the repeater, which is semi-important in that it denotes that the repeater has unlatched and the transmit timer is reset.

Windows here are unlatched from May to September.

I've seen what an unlatched hood can do at highway speeds.

Do you also have the seatbelt unlatched?

Quote examples

In an actual UI, you will have labels or indicators telling you what the toggle means and what the options are - "Safety door unlatched" vs "Control motors engaged".

So my guess based on the article is that when he “threw his weight against the door” he didn't realize, and maybe still doesn’t even after the fact, that his hand naturally grabbed that handle which unlatched the door.