click

noun

/klɪk/

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”).

derived from clique — “latch”
inherited from clike

Definitions

1
A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the…
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.
- There was a click in the front sitting-room. Mr. Pearce had extinguished the lamp.
The act of snapping one's fingers.
3
An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
- tsk is a click in English.
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1. The sound made by a dolphin.
2. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
3. The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a…
  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.
4. 7
  A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
  - Internet traffic to legal pornography sites in the UK comprised 8.5% of all "clicks" on web pages in June – exceeding those for shopping, news, business or social networks, according to new data obtained exclusively by the Guardian.
5. 8
  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.
6. A knock or blow.
7. A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
8. 11
  A click track.
  - But I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track, which then was synced to the Moog Modular.
9. 12
  To cause to make a click
  To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
  - [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.
  - She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash.
  - When merry milkmaids click the latch, / And rarely smells the new-mown hay, / […] / Alone and warming his five wits, / The white owl in the belfry sits.
10. 13
  To emit a click.
  - Surely that picture will be fixed for ever, for I heard the cameras clicking round me like crickets in a field.
11. To snap one's fingers.
12. To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
13. To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
14. 17
  To visit (a website).
  - Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.
15. 18
  To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
  - I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.
  - From the home page, click through to the Products section.
16. 19
  To make sense suddenly.
  - Then it clicked—I had been going the wrong way all that time.
17. 20
  To get along well.
  - When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
  - After tea, the bright boys wash, clean their boots, and change into their “second-best” attire, and stroll forth[…]; sometimes to saunter, in company with others, up and down that parade until they “click” with one of the “birds.”
18. 21
  To tick.
  - the varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door
19. 22
  To take (a photograph) with a camera.
  - Brad immediately took out his Iphone^([sic]) and clicked a picture of the plant and posted it up on Google and clicked search.
  - They clicked some pictures outside his sea facing bungalow and left dejected again.
20. To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
21. Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
22. 25
  The sound of a click.
  - Click! The door opened.
23. Alternative spelling of klick (“kilometers
  Alternative spelling of klick (“kilometers; kilometers per hour”).
24. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to…
  A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
25. The latch of a door.
26. 29
  To snatch.
  - ‘I take 'em to prevent abuses,’ Cants he, and then the Crucifix And Chalice from the Altar clicks.
27. 30
  A kind of throw.
  - inside click; outside click; cross click
28. Misspelling of clique.
29. A surname.
30. A ghost town in Llano County, Texas, United States, named after settler Malachi Click.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for click. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA