Meaning of click | Babel Free

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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. 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.
3. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
4. Alternative spelling of klick (“kilometers; kilometers per hour”).
   alt-of, alternative
5. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
6. A kind of throw.
7. A surname
8. The act of snapping one's fingers
9. A ghost town in Llano County, Texas, United States, named after settler Malachi Click.
   countable, uncountable
10. The act of snapping one's fingers.
    British
11. The latch of a door.
    UK, dialectal
12. A ghost town in Llano County, Texas, United States, named after settler Malachi Click
13. A light, sharp noise:clack, snap.
14. An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure
15. An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
16. a short, sharp sound, like that of a light-switch being turned on. the click of the camera. getik, klik طَقْطَقَه، قَرْقَعَه، طَقَّه щракане estalo cvaknutí das Klicken klik; smæld κλικclic klõps(atus) صدای تلک؛ تق napsahdus déclicנקישה खटखट की आवाज škljocaj, cvoktanje kattanás suara ceklik smellur scatto, clic カチッという音 (스위치 등이) 찰칵 하는 소리 spragtelėjimas klikšķis; klakšķis klik klikklikk, smekktrzask دکمپيوټر پر موږک زور کول ، ټك ټك (ږغ): كمكى ږغ estalo clic, pocnet щёлканье cvaknutie tlesk kuck...
17. The sound made by a dolphin
18. The sound made by a dolphin.
19. to (cause to) make such a sound. The soldier clicked his heels together; The gate clicked. tik يُقَرْقِع، يَطَقْطِق щраквам estalar klapnout schlagen klikke; smælde; slå (hælene sammen) κάνω «κλικ» hacer clic klõpsatama تق کردن؛ به تق تق انداختن napsauttaa cliqueter לְהָקִיש क्लिक करना kuckati, udarati csattant; (egérrel) kattint membuat suara ceklik smella scattare, fare clic, cliccare カチッと鳴らす 찰칵 소리를 내다 spragtelėti, taukštelėti sasist papēžus mengklik klikken, klakkenklikke, knipse, smekke, ...
20. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks
21. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
22. A brief, sharp sound: the click of a door latch.
23. 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.
24. A mechanical device, such as a pawl, that snaps into position.
25. A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
    broadly
26. Computers a. An instance of pressing down and releasing a button on a mouse or other input device.
    Computers
27. A pawl or similar catch.
28. Linguistics Any of various implosive stops, such as that of English tsk, produced by raising the back of the tongue to make contact with the palate and simultaneously closing the lips or touching the teeth or alveolar ridge with the tip and sides of the tongue, and found as phonemic consonants especially in the Khoisan and some Bantu languages. Also called suction stop. See Usage Note at !Kung.
    Linguistics
29. A knock or blow.
    UK, obsolete, slang
30. To produce a click or series of clicks.
31. A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
32. Computers a. To press and release a button on a mouse or other input device.
    Computers
33. A click track.
    informal
34. Slang a. To have good social or working relations; hit it off: The director and producer clicked at the very start of the play.
    Slang

Equivalents

Examples

“As I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened.”

“There was a click in the front sitting-room. Mr. Pearce had extinguished the lamp.”

“tsk is a click in English.”

“The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.”

“Internet traffic to legal pornography sites in the UK comprised 8.5% of all "clicks" on web pages in June – exceeding those for shopping, news, business or social networks, according to new data obtained exclusively by the Guardian.”

“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.”

“This roused the tinker's choler, already provoked at Tugwell's amorous freedom with his doxy, and he gave him a click in the mazard. Tugwell had not been used tamely to receive a kick or a cuff; he, therefore, gave the tinker a rejoinder, […]”

“But I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track, which then was synced to the Moog Modular.”

“inside click; outside click; cross click”

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