Sekirov Dictionary

click

/klɪk/

verb 14
noun 14
exclamation 1
forms 3
phrases 4

verb14

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To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs. — 1603
to push down one of the buttons of a computer mouse and let it go
To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
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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. — 1929
(UK) To snap one's fingers.
(old-fashioned) To tick.
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To visit (a website).
- Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.
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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.
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To make sense suddenly.
- Then it clicked—I had been going the wrong way all that time.
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To get along well.
- When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
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(India) 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. — 2014
(India) To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
(India) Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
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(no longer used) To snatch.
- ‘I take 'em to prevent abuses,’ Cants he, and then the Crucifix And Chalice from the Altar clicks. — 1716

noun14

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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.
The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
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.
A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
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An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
- tsk is a click in English.
The sound made by a dolphin.
(UK) The act of snapping one's fingers.
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(informal) 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. — 2013
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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. — 1943
A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
(dialect, UK) The latch of a door.
A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
A kind of throw.
(slang, no longer used) A knock or blow.

exclamation1

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The sound of a click.
- Click! The door opened.

forms

clicked · clicking · clicks

Phrases with click

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