Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CLICK

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Definitions of CLICK

1. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
2. A pawl or similar catch.
3. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
4. The sound of a click.
5. 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.
6. A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
7. (US) Misspelling of clique.
8. (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
9. (GUI) 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.
10. (by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
11. (UK, slang, obsolete) A knock or blow.
12. (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
13. (intransitive) To emit a click.
14. (computing) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
15. (transitive, GUI) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
16. (intransitive, GUI) To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
17. (intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
18. (intransitive) To get along well.
19. (dated, intransitive) To tick.
20. (transitive, India) To take (a photograph) with a camera.
21. (intransitive, India) To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
22. (intransitive, India) Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
23. (UK, dialect) The latch of a door.
24. (obsolete) To snatch.
25. A surname.
26. (British) The act of snapping one's fingers.
27. The sound made by a dolphin.
28. (British) To snap one's fingers.
29. (transitive, computing, advertising) To visit (a website).
30. Alternative spelling of klick ("kilometers; kilometers per hour").
31. (wrestling) A kind of throw.
32. A ghost town in Llano County, Texas, USA, named after settler Malachi Click.

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Examples of Using CLICK in a Sentence

• Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa.
• Event (computing), a software message indicating that something has happened, such as a keystroke or mouse click.
• HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, where hypertext documents include hyperlinks to other resources that the user can easily access, for example by a mouse click or by tapping the screen in a web browser.
• Hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typically activated by a mouse click, keypress set, or screen touch.
• Khoisan is defined as those languages that have click consonants and do not belong to other African language families.
• A click-to-donate site is a website where users can click a button to generate a donation for a charity without spending any of their own money.
• A click track is a series of audio cues used to synchronize sound recordings, sometimes for synchronization to a moving image.
• It uses a similar interface to Apple's Safari browser, where the user can click on a folder to move to it and move between locations using "back" and "forward" arrow buttons.
• The film also marks the first use of the click track while recording the soundtrack, overdubbing of orchestral parts, simultaneous multitrack recording and is cited as a key chapter in the conception and development of the multi-channel surround system.
• Other names include simply the word for river, in Khoekhoegowab orthography written as !Garib, which is rendered in Afrikaans as Gariep River with the intrusion of a velar fricative in place of the alveolar click, Groote River (derived from Kai !Garib) or Senqu River (used in Lesotho), derived from ǂNū "Black".
• Considerable mingling with Bantu-speaking groups is evidenced by prevalence of click phonemes in many especially Xhosa Southern African Bantu languages.
• First-year students are required to take "Design Nature", in which they design and build mechanical toys based on biological systems (such as the click beetle's jumping mechanism).
• Myst has an optional "Zip" feature to assist in rapidly crossing areas already explored; when a lightning bolt cursor appears, players can click and skip several frames to another location.
• A normal CAPTCHA test only appears if the user acts like a bot, such as when they request webpages, or click links too fast.
• As an example, Cookie Clicker requires that players click cookies manually before purchasing assets to click cookies in the place of the player independently.
• Like many contemporary electronic genres, Microhouse has many influences, most notably techno and the "click and pop" garage house that has emerged from Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass (or "Bleep"), bitpop and minimal techno.
• During the 1969 season, Santo became known for performing a heel click after a game on June 22, 1969, against the Montreal Expos.
• Click of death is a term that had become common in the late 1990s referring to the clicking sound in disk storage systems that signals a disk drive has failed, often catastrophically.

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