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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

click1

[klik] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	a slight, sharp sound: At the click of the latch, the dog barked.

2.	a small device for preventing backward movement of a mechanism, as a detent or pawl.

3.	Phonetics. any one of a variety of ingressive, usually implosive, speech sounds, phonemic in some languages, produced by suction occlusion and plosive or affricative release.

4.	any one of a variety of familiar sounds used in calling or urging on horses or other animals, in expressing reprimand or sympathy, or produced in audible kissing.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to emit or make a slight, sharp sound, or series of such sounds, as by the cocking of a pistol: The door clicked shut.

Informal.

a.	to succeed; make a hit: If the play clicks, the producer will be rich.

b.	to fit together; function well together: They get along in public, but their personalities don't really click.

c.	to become intelligible.

7.	Computers. to depress and release a mouse button rapidly, as to select an icon.

–verb (used with object)

8.	to cause to click.

9.	to strike together with a click: He clicked his heels and saluted.

[Origin: 1575–85; perh. imit., but perh. < D klick (n.), klikken (v.)

]

—Related forms

clickless, adjective

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click2

[klik] Pronunciation Key

–noun Slang.

a kilometer.

Also, klick, klik.

[Origin: ‡ 1970–75; prob. special use of click¹, but sense development unclear

]

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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

click (klĭk) Pronunciation Key
n.

A brief, sharp sound: the click of a door latch.
A mechanical device, such as a pawl, that snaps into position.
Computer Science An instance of pressing down and releasing a button on a pointing device, such as a mouse.
Linguistics Any of various implosive stops, such as that of English tsk, produced by raising the back of the tongue to make contact with the palate and simultaneously closing the lips or touching the teeth or alveolar ridge with the tip and sides of the tongue, and found as phonemic consonants especially in the Khoisan and some Bantu languages. Also called suction stop. See Usage Note at !Kung.

v. clicked, click·ing, clicks

v. intr.

To produce a click or series of clicks.
Computer Science To press down and release a button on a pointing device in order to select an item on a display screen or activate a command or function.
Slang
1. To be a great success: The play clicked on Broadway.
2. To function well together; hit it off.
3. To become clear; fall into place.

v. tr.

To cause to click, as by striking together: clicked his heels.
Computer Science To press down and release (a button on a pointing device). Often used with on.

[Imitative.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
click

1581, of imitative origin; the figurative sense of "fit together" first recorded 1915.

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WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This

click
noun
1.	a short light metallic sound [syn: chink]
2.	a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) [syn: suction stop]
3.	a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward [syn: pawl]
4.	depression of a button on a computer mouse; "a click on the right button for example"
verb
1.	move or strike with a noise; "he clicked on the light"; "his arm was snapped forward" [syn: snap]
2.	make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away"
3.	click repeatedly or uncontrollably; "Chattering teeth" [syn: chatter]
4.	cause to make a snapping sound; "snap your fingers" [syn: snap]
5.	produce a click; "Xhosa speakers click"
6.	make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens [syn: cluck]
7.	become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"

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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

click (klĭk)
n.
A slight sharp sound, such as that heard from the heart during systole.

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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

click hardware
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". Multiple clicks in quick succession, e.g. a double-click, often have a different meaning from slow single clicks. 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.
(1995-03-14)

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Click

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.

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Click

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.

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Click

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.

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Click

Click\, v. t. [OE. kleken, clichen. Cf. Clutch.] To snatch. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

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Click

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.]

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