click
Plural: clicks
Noun
- a short light metallic sound
- a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)
- a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
- depression of a button on a computer mouse
- "a click on the right button for example"
- 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.
- The act of snapping one's fingers.
- An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
- The 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 or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
- A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
- A pawl or similar catch.
- A knock or blow.
- A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
- Alternative spelling of klick (“kilometers; kilometers per hour”).
- A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
- The latch of a door.
- A kind of throw.
- Misspelling of clique.
Verb
Verb Forms: clicked, clicking, clicks
- To make a short, sharp sound; to succeed or become clear.
- move or strike with a noise
- "he clicked on the light"
- make a clicking or ticking sound
- click repeatedly or uncontrollably
- cause to make a snapping sound
- produce a click
- "Xhosa speakers click"
- make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
- To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- To emit a click.
- To snap one's fingers.
- To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
- To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
- To visit (a website).
- To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
- To make sense suddenly.
- To get along well.
- To tick.
- To take (a photograph) with a camera.
- To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
- Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
- To snatch.
- Misspelling of clique.
Intj
- The sound of a click.
Examples
- As I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened.
- Click! The door opened.
- Finally, the letters CLICKed into place, forming the perfect bingo word.
- From the home page, click through to the Products section.
- I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.
- inside click; outside click; cross click
- Then it clicked—I had been going the wrong way all that time.
- tsk is a click in English.
- Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.
- When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
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, suction stop, tick, click consonant
Scrabble Score: 13
click: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordclick: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
click: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary