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Meaning of CLICK

Pronunciation:  klik

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  depression of a button on a computer mouse; "a click on the right button for example"
  2. [n]  a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
  3. [n]  a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)
  4. [n]  a short light metallic sound
  5. [v]  become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"
  6. [v]  make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
  7. [v]  produce a click; "Xhosa speakers click"
  8. [v]  cause to make a snapping sound; of fingers
  9. [v]  move or strike with a click; "then the brightness as he clicked on the light."
  10. [v]  make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away"
  11. [v]  click repeatedly or uncontrollably, as of teeth
 
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 Synonyms: chatter, chink, clack, clink, cluck, come home, dawn, detent, dog, fall into place, flick, get across, get through, mouse click, pawl, penetrate, sink in, snap, snap, suction stop, tick
 
 See Also: articulate, catch, depression, emit, enounce, enunciate, go, let loose, let out, move, move, occlusive, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, pronounce, rachet, ratch, ratchet, say, sound, sound, sound out, stop, stop, stop consonant, understand, utter

 

 

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Click\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Clicked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Clicking}.] [Prob. an onomatopoetic word: cf. OF. cliquier.
    {See Clack}, and cf. {Clink}, {Clique}.]
    To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such
    noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
          The varnished clock that clicked behind the door.
                                                   --Goldsmith.
    
  2. \Click\, v. t.
    1. To move with the sound of a click.
             She clicked back the bolt which held the window
             sash.                                 --Thackeray.
    2. To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking
       together, or against something.
             [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs. --Ben Jonson.
             When merry milkmaids click the latch. --Tennyson.
    
  3. \Click\, n.
    1. A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a
       pistol.
    2. A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern
       Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or
       some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth
       with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking
       sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are
       called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or
       clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in
       urging a horse forward.
    
  4. \Click\, v. t. [OE. kleken, clichen. Cf. {Clutch}.]
    To snatch. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
    
  5. \Click\, n. [Cf. 4th {Click}, and OF. clique latch.]
    1. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs
       of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust.
       of {Ratched wheel}.
    2. The latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]
    
 
Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

To press and release a button on a mouse or other pointing device. This generates an event, also specifying the screen position, which is processed by the window manager or application program. On a mouse with more than one button, the unqualified term usually implies pressing the left-most button (with the right index finger), other buttons would be qualified, e.g. "right-click". Keyboard modifiers may also be used, e.g. "shift-click", meaning to hold down the shift key on the keyboard while clicking the mouse button.

If the mouse moves while the button is pressed then this is a drag.

 
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