click
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Is click a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of click?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (British) The act of snapping one's fingers.British
2. (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.Examples: "tsk is a click in English."Synonyms: click consonant
3. (graphical user interface) 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.
4. (by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.Examples: "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."broadly
5. (UK, slang, obsolete) A knock or blow.Examples: "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, […]"UKobsoleteslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.Examples: "[Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs."; "She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash."; "When merry milkmaids click the latch, / And rarely smells the new-mown hay, / […] / Alone and warming his five wits, / The white owl in the belfry sits."transitive
2. (intransitive) To emit a click.Examples: "Surely that picture will be fixed for ever, for I heard the cameras clicking round me like crickets in a field."intransitive
3. (British) To snap one's fingers.British
4. (computing) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
5. (transitive, graphical user interface) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.transitive
6. (transitive, computing, advertising) To visit (a website).Examples: "Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com."transitive
noun (English)
1. (UK, dialect) The latch of a door.UKdialectal
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To snatch.Examples: "‘I take 'em to prevent abuses,’ Cants he, and then the Crucifix And Chalice from the Altar clicks."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (wrestling) A kind of throw.Examples: "inside click; outside click; cross click"
noun (English)
1. (US) Misspelling of clique.USalt-ofmisspelling
Definition source: Wiktionary