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. The act of snapping one's fingers.
3. An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
4. 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. A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
8. A pawl or similar catch.
9. (obsolete,slang) A knock or blow.
10. A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.

Verb

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

Intj

The sound of a click.

Verb

To snatch.

Verb

Misspelling of clique.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/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”).

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