"glom on" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "gloms on",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glomming on",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glommed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glommed on",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "_dis1": "48 52",
      "word": "glom onto"
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        {
          "ref": "2016 October 8, Sally Adee, “It’s just common sense”, in New Scientist, number 3094, page 22:",
          "text": "But as Siri’s many noted missteps attest, a computer really has no idea what you’re talking about. It breaks your speech down, gloms on to keywords and makes a good guess at what you’re asking.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To attach oneself to something."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, slang) To attach oneself to something."
      ],
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        "slang"
      ]
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        },
        {
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        {
          "ref": "2015 October 10, Dan Lett, “Building great roads poses great challenge. Can science, planning finally trump Mother Nature, financial pressures?”, in The Free Press (Winnipeg):",
          "text": "Engineers began to glom on to the idea that properly laid crushed rock, interlocked in a particular way at the base of a road, could do much of what the metal reinforcement did — namely hold the structural integrity of the roadway but at a lower overall cost.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To comprehend something."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To comprehend something."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "9 91",
          "sense": "understand",
          "word": "cotton on"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "_dis1": "48 52",
      "word": "glomb on"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "48 52",
      "word": "glomp on"
    }
  ],
  "word": "glom on"
}

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    "English multiword terms",
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    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
    "English verbs",
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      "form": "gloms on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glomming on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glommed on",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "glommed on",
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "glom onto"
    }
  ],
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        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 October 8, Sally Adee, “It’s just common sense”, in New Scientist, number 3094, page 22:",
          "text": "But as Siri’s many noted missteps attest, a computer really has no idea what you’re talking about. It breaks your speech down, gloms on to keywords and makes a good guess at what you’re asking.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attach oneself to something."
      ],
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        "(intransitive, slang) To attach oneself to something."
      ],
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        "slang"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "ref": "2015 October 10, Dan Lett, “Building great roads poses great challenge. Can science, planning finally trump Mother Nature, financial pressures?”, in The Free Press (Winnipeg):",
          "text": "Engineers began to glom on to the idea that properly laid crushed rock, interlocked in a particular way at the base of a road, could do much of what the metal reinforcement did — namely hold the structural integrity of the roadway but at a lower overall cost.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To comprehend something."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To comprehend something."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "understand",
      "word": "cotton on"
    },
    {
      "word": "glomb on"
    },
    {
      "word": "glomp on"
    }
  ],
  "word": "glom on"
}