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click

Pronunciation: /klɪk/

The English word “click” has 20 meanings listed here.

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. 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. A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
  8. A pawl or similar catch.
  9. A knock or blow.
  10. A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
  11. A click track.

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 one's 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 website).
  7. To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
  8. To make sense suddenly.
  9. To get along well.

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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