click
see also: Click
Pronunciation Noun
Click
Proper noun
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see also: Click
Pronunciation Noun
click (plural clicks)
- A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock or a latch, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- There was a click in the front sitting-room. Mr. Pearce had extinguished the lamp.
- I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened; a click of one’s fingers
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
- tsk is a click in English.
- Sound made by a dolphin.
- The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
- The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
- With the right software you can program your mouse to do a double click with a single click (but that's cheating)
- (by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
- A pawl or similar catch.
- 1943, Chilton's Jewelers' Circular
- A wheel, with teeth in which a click or pawl engages to prevent backward motion; or the same with addition of another click through which power is imparted at intervals to move the wheel.
- 1943, Chilton's Jewelers' Circular
- German: Schnalzlaut, Klix
- Portuguese: clique
- Russian: щёлкающий звук
- Spanish: chasquido
- French: clic
- Russian: щёлканье
- Spanish: chasquido
- Russian: щёлканье
- French: clic
- German: Klick, Mausklick, Klicken
- Italian: clicca
- Portuguese: clique
- Russian: щелчо́к
- Spanish: clic, pulsado, aprieto
click (clicks, present participle clicking; past and past participle clicked)
- (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- 1603, Ben Jonson, Sejanus His Fall
- [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.
- She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Owl
- when merry milkmaids click the latch
- 1918, The Cosmopolitan (volume 66, page 61)
- His voice rose in a clacking chatter; his long whip curled over the backs of the dogs, and, eager for the thrill of the trail, the malemiuts leaped out in a straight tawny line, whimpering and whining and clicking their jaws […]
- 1603, Ben Jonson, Sejanus His Fall
- (transitive, computing, ambitransitive) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
- (transitive, computing) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
- (transitive, computing, advertising) To visit a web site.
- Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
- I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.
- From the home page, click through to the Products section.
- (intransitive) To emit a click.
- He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked.
- (intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
- Then it clicked - I had been going the wrong way all that time.
- (intransitive) To get on well.
- When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
- (dated, intransitive) To tick.
- the varnished clock that clicked behind the door
- (transitive, India) To take (a photograph) with a camera.
- 2014, Dhisti Desai, Innocent Desire (page 107)
- Brad immediately took out his Iphone
[ sic] and clicked a picture of the plant and posted it up on Google and clicked search.
- Brad immediately took out his Iphone
- 2014, Dhisti Desai, Innocent Desire (page 107)
- French: cliquer
- German: klicken
- Italian: cliccare
- Portuguese: apertar (button), clicar (mouse)
- Russian: щёлкать
- Spanish: hacer clic, clicar, cliquear
- French: (on: sur) cliquer
- German: klicken, click on anklicken
- Italian: (on: su) cliccare
- Portuguese: clicar
- Russian: щёлкать
- Spanish: hacer clic, cliquear, clicar
- Portuguese: cair a ficha
- Russian: дойти́
- Portuguese: encaixar
- The sound of a click.
- Click! The door opened.
- Portuguese: clique
- Russian: щёлк
- click one's fingers
- cliché
click (plural clicks)
- Alternative spelling of klick
click (plural clicks)
- A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
- (UK, dialect) The latch of a door.
click (clicks, present participle clicking; past and past participle clicked)
- (obsolete) To snatch.
click (plural clicks)
- (US) Misspelling of clique
click (clicks, present participle clicking; past and past participle clicked)
- (US) Misspelling of clique
Click
Proper noun
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