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Click

//klɪk// intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj

1
The sound of a click.
"Click! The door opened."

Proper Noun

1
A surname. countable, uncountable
2
A ghost town in Llano County, Texas, United States, named after settler Malachi Click. countable, uncountable

Noun

1
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.
"As I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened."
2
Alternative spelling of klick (“kilometers; kilometers per hour”). alt-of, alternative
3
A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
4
A kind of throw.
"inside click; outside click; cross click"
5
Misspelling of clique. US, alt-of, misspelling

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6
depression of a button on a computer mouse wordnet
7
The act of snapping one's fingers. British
8
The latch of a door. UK, dialectal
9
a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward wordnet
10
An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
"tsk is a click in English."
11
a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) wordnet
12
The sound made by a dolphin.
13
a short light metallic sound wordnet
14
The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
15
The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
16
A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed. broadly
"The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained."
17
A pawl or similar catch.
"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."
18
A knock or blow. UK, obsolete, slang
"This roused the tinker's choler, already provoked at Tugwell's amorous freedom with his doxy, and he gave him a click in the mazard. Tugwell had not been used tamely to receive a kick or a cuff; he, therefore, gave the tinker a rejoinder, […]"
19
A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
20
A click track. informal
"But I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track, which then was synced to the Moog Modular."

Verb

1
To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click. transitive
"[Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs."
2
To snatch. obsolete
"‘I take 'em to prevent abuses,’ Cants he, and then the Crucifix And Chalice from the Altar clicks."
3
Misspelling of clique. US, alt-of, misspelling
4
become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions wordnet
5
To emit a click. intransitive
"Surely that picture will be fixed for ever, for I heard the cameras clicking round me like crickets in a field."

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6
make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens wordnet
7
To snap one's fingers. British
8
produce a click wordnet
9
To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
10
cause to make a snapping sound wordnet
11
To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button. transitive
12
move or strike with a noise wordnet
13
To visit (a website). transitive
"Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com."
14
make a clicking or ticking sound wordnet
15
To navigate by clicking a mouse button. intransitive
"I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site."
16
click repeatedly or uncontrollably wordnet
17
To make sense suddenly. intransitive
"Then it clicked—I had been going the wrong way all that time."
18
To get along well. intransitive
"When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since."
19
To tick. dated, intransitive
"the varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door"
20
To take (a photograph) with a camera. India, transitive
"Brad immediately took out his Iphone^([sic]) and clicked a picture of the plant and posted it up on Google and clicked search."
21
To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time. India, intransitive
22
Of a film, to be successful at the box office. India, intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s. Compare Saterland Frisian klikke (“to click”), Middle Dutch clicken (Modern Dutch: klikken (“to click”)), Old High German klecchen (Modern German: klecken, klicken (“to click”)), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”), Norwegian klikke (“to click”), Norwegian klekke (“to hatch”).

Etymology 2

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Etymology 4

From Middle English clike, from Old French clique (“latch”).

Etymology 5

From Middle English cleken, a variant of clechen (“to grab”), perhaps from Old English *clēċan, *clǣċan, a byform of clyċċan (“to clutch”). More at clutch.

Etymology 6

From Middle English cleken, a variant of clechen (“to grab”), perhaps from Old English *clēċan, *clǣċan, a byform of clyċċan (“to clutch”). More at clutch.

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