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click

1  [klik]
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–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.
6. 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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Slang Dictionary
click (with (so))

  1. in.
    to catch on with someone; to intrigue someone; to become popular with someone. : Sam and Mary are getting along fine. I knew they'd click.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

click 
1581, of imitative origin; the figurative sense of "fit together" first recorded 1915.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: click
Pronunciation: 'klik
Function: noun
: a short sharp sound heard in auscultation and associated with various abnormalities of the heart
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

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

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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