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| 1. n. 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 |  |
| I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened; a click of one’s fingers | |
| 2. n. (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure. | |
| tsk is a click in English. | |
| 3. n. Sound made by a dolphin. | |
| 4. n. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks. | |
| 5. n. The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software. | |
| With the right software you can program your mouse to do a double click with a single click (but that's cheating) | |
| 6. n. (by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed. | |
| 7. n. A pawl or similar catch. | |
| 8. v. To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, computing, ambitransitive) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse). | |
| 10. v. (transitive, computing) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, computing, advertising) To visit a web site. | |
| Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive, computing) 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. | |
| 13. v. (intransitive) To emit a click. | |
| He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To make sense suddenly. | |
| Then it clicked - I had been going the wrong way all that time. | |
| 15. v. (intransitive) To get on well. | |
| When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since. | |
| 16. v. (dated, intransitive) To tick. | |
| 17. v. (transitive, India) To take (a photograph) with a camera. | |
| 18. interj. The sound of a click. | |
| Click! The door opened. | |
| 19. n. alternative spelling of klick | |
| 20. n. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. | |
| 21. n. (dialect) The latch of a door. | |
| 22. v. (obsolete) To snatch. | |
| 23. n. (US) (misspelling of clique) | |
| 24. v. (US) (misspelling of clique) | |
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