click
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
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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”).
Inflected forms:
form: clicks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clicks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clicking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clicked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clicked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The act of snapping one's fingers.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
pos: noun
examples: tsk is a click in English.
gloss: The sound made by a dolphin.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
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.
gloss: A pawl or similar catch.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A knock or blow.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: This roused the tinker's choler, already provoked at Tugwell's amorous freedom with his doxy, and he gave him a click in the mazard. Tugwell had not been used tamely to receive a kick or a cuff; he, therefore, gave the tinker a rejoinder, […]
gloss: A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
pos: noun
gloss: A click track.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: But I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track, which then was synced to the Moog Modular.
gloss: To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [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.
His voice rose in a clacking chatter; his long whip curled over the backs of the dogs, and, eager for the thrill of the trail, the malemiuts leaped out in a straight tawny line, whimpering and whining and clicking their jaws […]
Dan clicked his tongue.
gloss: To emit a click.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Surely that picture will be fixed for ever, for I heard the cameras clicking round me like crickets in a field.
gloss: To snap one's fingers.
pos: verb
tags: UK
gloss: To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
pos: verb
gloss: To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To visit (a website).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.
gloss: To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.
From the home page, click through to the Products section.
gloss: To make sense suddenly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Then it clicked—I had been going the wrong way all that time.
gloss: To get along well.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.”
gloss: To tick.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: the varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door
gloss: To take (a photograph) with a camera.
pos: verb
tags: India
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
pos: verb
tags: India
intransitive
gloss: Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
pos: verb
tags: India
intransitive
gloss: The sound of a click.
pos: intj
examples: Click! The door opened.
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