click

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. (British) The act of snapping one's fingers.
3. An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
4. The sound made by a dolphin.
5. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
6. 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.
7. (broadly) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
8. A pawl or similar catch.
9. (UK, obsolete, slang) A knock or blow.
10. A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
2. (intransitive) To emit a click.
3. (British) To snap one's fingers.
4. To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
5. (transitive) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
6. (transitive) To visit (a website).
7. (intransitive) To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
8. (intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
9. (intransitive) To get along well.
10. (dated, intransitive) To tick.
11. (India, transitive) To take (a photograph) with a camera.
12. (India, intransitive) To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
13. (India, intransitive) Of a film, to be successful at the box office.

Intj

The sound of a click.

Verb

To snatch.

Verb

Misspelling of clique.

Synonyms

snap

tick

crack

clack

pawl

detent

clatter

flick

chink

chatter

rattle

cluck

sink in

get along well with

penetrate

suction stop

clink

get across

get through

ratchet

dawn

tap

clank

ticktock

knock

dog

🐕

clap

👏

mouse click

fillip

fall into place

hit it off

jingle

light up

match

obstruction

of

on

🔛

pop

pullback

quack

rap

safety catch

smack

smash

suit

ticking

ticktack

tongue

👅

trigger

whip

Translations

cliquer

clic

klicken

klikken

clique

hacer clic

claquer

clicar

cliquear

schnalzen

clic

chasquear

cliccare

Klick

Pronounced as (IPA)

/klɪk/

Etymology

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: klikke

Cognate with Middle Dutch: clicken

Inherited from Middle English: clike

Inherited from Middle English: cleken

Inherited from Old English: *clēċan

In summary

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”).

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