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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
click
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
double click
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
▪ The light clicked on and suddenly everything was white and horribly bright.
▪ How about light switches that clicked on loudly enough to be heard down the hall?
▪ Click on Define, which opens up a fuller version of the Style box, and then click on Merge.
▪ Select Folder from the lengthy list that appears and then click on Edit.
▪ There are various hot spots within that you can click on to get clips and a 360-degree look at each room.
▪ Step 10 Click on Find Next.
▪ If clicking on the link starts your player, from the mouse menu.
■ NOUN
button
▪ You can set which details are shown by clicking the Options button.
▪ The user can click on a button to switch between the different languages.
▪ Instead I would just like to be able to click a single button which means assigning a macro to an appropriate icon.
▪ She clicked on the button to turn over the second card, and the second card was Death.
▪ This should become clearer if you run the project, click the button and study the output carefully.
▪ Users just have to click an on-screen button to encrypt an outgoing message.
▪ To place a call, type one of the following into the Address bar: Then click the Place Call button.
▪ To go back to a page you previously visited, click the Back button until you find it.
door
▪ When the door clicked he walked right through to the back, past two secretaries who did not even look up.
▪ As the door clicked shut, Chucha opened one eye, then closed it.
▪ At last Fitzosbert stopped at one cell door and clicked his fingers.
▪ She was snapped out of her reverie as the door clicked shut and the secretary left them alone again.
▪ Jamie answered on her first buzz, and the door clicked open for her.
finger
▪ Then he turned and clicked his fingers.
▪ He clicked his fingers for Nosey to follow him, then rode northwards in the dusk.
▪ At last Fitzosbert stopped at one cell door and clicked his fingers.
▪ His face set, he raised a hand and clicked his fingers.
▪ He clicked his fingers and the Zippo came alive in his hand.
▪ Expected to jump to it just because you click your fingers!
heel
▪ Louise turned on her three-inch heels and clicked away.
icon
▪ The latter is accomplished by clicking on a speaker icon at the top of the screen.
▪ The single is not out until March 19 but you can see the video right now by clicking the icon above.
▪ They just open their mail and click on the icon to open the file.
▪ To print a schedule for any number of days, just click on the printer icon.
▪ That allows the recipient to visit the site by clicking on the icon instead of typing a lengthy address.
▪ Instead of typing a word to start a program, you clicked on an icon.
▪ Open the window for the disk by clicking on the icon inside My Computer.
link
▪ When you click on the link, Netscape or Internet Explorer will open a newsreader in a separate window.
▪ Then I clicked on another link, which created a new directory called HaHaHa on my hard disk.
▪ You can tune in to the saucy encounter by clicking on the video links in the top of our highlights bar.
▪ I can click on a link and get real-time video from a computer half way around the world.
▪ If it suits, click on the link to visit the site.
▪ You click on the link to go there.
▪ In practice it works a bit like flicking through a huge magazine by clicking on links with your mouse.
▪ If clicking on the link starts your player, from the mouse menu.
mouse
▪ The mouse allows you to click the notes into position on the stave and saves a lot of keying time.
▪ Use your trusty right mouse button to click on it, which will bring up a properties sheet.
▪ Thousands of kids have used the computer mouse to click on objects on the computer screen and watch them move.
▪ Sodom and Gomorrah only a mouse click away.
place
▪ But once all the children had a more settled routine at night, it clicked into place.
▪ Whatever the case, all the performances clicked into place as the actors relaxed and found their comic footing.
▪ The end twist clicks into place in a satisfying, if slightly predictable, way.
▪ To place a call, type one of the following into the Address bar: Then click the Place Call button.
▪ He caught it just before it clicked back in place.
▪ The lock clicked sharply into place.
▪ For a few silent moments this doesn't click into place.
▪ Before I untucked the receiver from my chin, I heard the sound of another phone clicking into place.
tongue
▪ The clock clicks its tongue ... trial and error.
▪ Kha Yang clicked his tongue then.
▪ He clicked his tongue, the cob plodded resolutely forward and so did I. And it was easy!
▪ Young women came and joined in, everyone popping fingers on cheeks and clicking tongues.
▪ I sigh and click my tongue at these, of course.
▪ There was a human quality, too, to the noise, as if several women were clicking their tongues at great speed.
▪ Church speculated with a long-range squirt, clicking his tongue in self-reproach as he did.
■ VERB
hear
▪ This time, Melanie heard an odd, clicking noise and shifted again, to see what it was.
▪ He said he thought he had heard her clicking for help.
▪ You don't find out that the gun's not loaded until after you've heard the trigger click.
▪ I heard the fan clicking and the bubbling of the hot-water kettle in the silence of the hall.
▪ We carried on chatting, but I could hear him clicking on his computer.
point
▪ The navigation techniques in Encarta are interactive, with more pointing and clicking and less typing.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
click your tongue
▪ Church speculated with a long-range squirt, clicking his tongue in self-reproach as he did.
▪ He clicked his tongue, the cob plodded resolutely forward and so did I. And it was easy!
▪ I sigh and click my tongue at these, of course.
▪ Kha Yang clicked his tongue then.
▪ The clock clicks its tongue ... trial and error.
▪ There was a human quality, too, to the noise, as if several women were clicking their tongues at great speed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Both men smiled as the cameras clicked.
▪ Everything clicked for the team all season long.
▪ I had a lot of trouble with algebra, but the teacher was patient and one day it just clicked.
▪ I never really clicked with my boss, and it made work a little more difficult.
▪ Just keep working at it, and suddenly it will all click.
▪ We just clicked from the moment we started working together.
▪ We just clicked, and we've been friends ever since.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He clicked his tongue, the cob plodded resolutely forward and so did I. And it was easy!
▪ I stuck it out the window, pointed it at the garage, and clicked it.
▪ She was a wind-up putting-away doll, clicking through its programmed movements.
▪ So you click to the next channel.
▪ Sort of Twin Peaks meets Gertrude Stein, and somehow everything clicks.
▪ To schedule an event, click on one of the icons and drag it to the schedule.
▪ When you click on the link, Netscape or Internet Explorer will open a newsreader in a separate window.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
double
▪ If you double click on one of the font names a sample is displayed on the screen.
▪ To change options double click on the text window or click on the underscored arrow button.
▪ It's better to assign an icon to the program, so it can be run with a double click.
▪ DoubleClickSpeed: Longest time allowed between two mouse clicks for them still to be counted as a double click.
▪ Alternatively double click anywhere on the desktop to evoke the TaskManager and select the 1-2-3 task and click on the terminate button.
right
▪ Open it, right click inside the directory listing and choose New, Shortcut.
■ NOUN
mouse
▪ A single mouse click would simply highlight the item.
▪ Modify your computer so menus and desktop put your stationery, programs and favorite Web destination a mouse click away.
▪ Anyone can access a large number of atomic databases on the Internet with a mouse click.
▪ That will cost you 10 minutes and umpteen keystrokes and mouse clicks.
▪ Move back to the Program Manager, highlight the Legato icon with a single mouse click, and press the Delete key.
▪ A mouse click on a menu item would do it.
■ VERB
hear
▪ She heard the click of the gate; then nothing, except the crickets rubbing their back legs together in the grass.
▪ He hears the click of the caller hanging up.
▪ She turned her head as she heard the kitchen door click.
▪ David Ferrie made a face when he heard the click in his left ear.
▪ He heard a click and stepped back quickly as the bolt thudded into the wall of the derelict house behind him.
▪ As Ramsay reached it, he could hear the draw-bar within click into place.
▪ Nobody moved until they heard the click of Snells' front gate.
▪ As I stepped down the steep treads I heard the too loud click of shoe leather on metal.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I heard a click, and the phone went dead.
▪ They live about five clicks out of town.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A single mouse click would simply highlight the item.
▪ An informed, caring community is a computer click away.
▪ In came a previously undisclosed audiotape of a police interview with Butch Yunkin full of gaps, clicks and curious pauses.
▪ It lies in a shallow valley a couple of clicks north of Redondo.
▪ With each click, the new channel and the program are identified at the bottom of the screen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Click

Click \Click\, n. [Cf. 4th Click, and OF. clique latch.]

  1. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.

  2. The latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

Click

Click \Click\, v. t.

  1. To move with the sound of a click.

    She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash.
    --Thackeray.

  2. To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.

    [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.
    --Ben Jonson.

    When merry milkmaids click the latch.
    --Tennyson.

Click

Click \Click\, n.

  1. A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.

  2. A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.

Click

Click \Click\, v. t. [OE. kleken, clichen. Cf. Clutch.] To snatch. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.

Click

Click \Click\ (kl[i^]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clicked (kl[i^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clicking.] [Prob. an onomatopoetic word: cf. OF. cliquier. See Clack, and cf. Clink, Clique.] To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

The varnished clock that clicked behind the door.
--Goldsmith.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
click

1580s, of imitative origin (compare Dutch and East Frisian klikken "to click; Old French clique "tick of a clock"). The figurative sense, in reference usually to persons, "hit it off at once, become friendly upon meeting" is from 1915, perhaps based on the sound of a key in a lock. Related: Clicked; clicking.

click

1610s, from click (v.). Click-beetle attested from 1830.

Wiktionary
click

Etymology 1 interj. The sound of a click. n. 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, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand. 2 (context phonetics English) An ingressive sound made by coarticulate a velar or uvular closure with another closure. 3 Sound made by a dolphin. 4 The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks. 5 The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software. 6 # (qualifier: by extension) A single instance of content on the internet being accessed. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click. 2 (context transitive English) ''(direct and indirect)'' To press and release (a button on a computer mouse). 3 (context transitive English) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button. 4 (context transitive advertising English) To visit a web site. 5 (context intransitive English) To emit a click. 6 (context intransitive English) To click the left button of a computer mouse while pointing. 7 (context intransitive English) To make sense suddenly. 8 (context intransitive English) To get on well. 9 (context dated intransitive English) To tick. Etymology 2

n. (alternative spelling of klick English) Etymology 3

n. 1 A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. 2 (context UK dialect English) The latch of a door. Etymology 4

vb. (context obsolete English) To snatch. Etymology 5

n. (a: US) (misspelling of clique English) vb. (a: US) (misspelling of clique English)

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WordNet
click

  1. n. a short light metallic sound [syn: chink, clink]

  2. depression of a button on a computer mouse; "a click on the right button for example" [syn: mouse click]

  3. a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) [syn: suction stop]

  4. a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward [syn: pawl, detent, dog]

click

  1. v. move or strike with a noise; "he clicked on the light"; "his arm was snapped forward" [syn: snap]

  2. make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away" [syn: tick]

  3. click repeatedly or uncontrollably; "Chattering teeth" [syn: chatter]

  4. cause to make a snapping sound; "snap your fingers" [syn: snap, flick]

  5. produce a click; "Xhosa speakers click"

  6. make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens [syn: cluck, clack]

  7. become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" [syn: get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place]

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Wikipedia
Click

Click, Klick and Klik may refer to:

Click (comics)

Click! is a series of erotic Italian comic books written and illustrated by comic book creator Milo Manara. It was first published in 1983 as Il gioco in the Italian Playmen and as Déclic in L'Écho des savanes in France. Three sequels have followed, in 1991, 1994 and 2001.

Click (game show)

Click is an American television game show based around computers and the then-relatively novel medium of the Internet. The youth-oriented series was created by Merv Griffin and hosted by Ryan Seacrest, with a female co-host who also served as announcer: Amber Bonasso in Season 1, and Amber Willenborg in Season 2.

It aired in syndication from September 6, 1997, to August 1999; reruns aired for several years on Game Show Network.

Click (Philippine TV series)

Click is a Filipino youth-oriented TV series produced and aired by GMA Network from December 4, 1999 to July 24, 2004. The show jump-started the careers of the several popular young actors and actresses in the Philippines today, such as Richard Gutierrez, Alessandra de Rossi, Angel Locsin, Jake Cuenca, JC de Vera, Jennylyn Mercado, Bianca King and many more. The series is shown every Saturday and was conceived to fill in the void of T.G.I.S. on its timeslot after VIVA withdrew co-productions with GMA.

Click (novel)

Click (2007) is a work of collaborative fiction written by David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Deborah Ellis, Nick Hornby, Margo Lanagan, Gregory Maguire, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Sue Park, and Tim Wynne-Jones. It is about a photographer named George G. Keane, his grandchildren, Jason and Margaret, and how they affected the lives of different people, such as a Russian prisoner and an Irish teen.

Click (TV programme)

Click (previously Click Online) is a weekly BBC television programme covering news and recent developments in the world of consumer technology, presented by Spencer Kelly.

There are five editions of the programme, including two 30-minute programmes: the first is produced for a UK audience and shown on BBC News and BBC TWO, the second is produced for a global audience, aired on BBC World News, usually identical with a commercial break in the middle. The 15-minute version is shown on BBC One and BBC News during BBC Breakfast (at the weekend). The fourth edition runs for 5 minutes on BBC World News at selected times of the week featuring one story. The fifth goes out on BBC TWO on Monday morning at 10:35am.

Thursday 29 December 2005 marked the last edition of Click Online, as the show was previously known. This coincided with the departure of presenter Stephen Cole after 295 shows. The programme was rebranded with new music and titles and now concentrates more on consumer issues, and not necessarily the internet or what users can do or visit "online".

The 12 March 2016 programme was broadcast in 360-degrees, and is the first entire episode of a TV programme to be broadcast thus.

BBC World Service broadcasts a weekly sister radio show, also called Click, presented by Gareth Mitchell and Bill Thompson.

Click (radio programme)

Click (previously known as Digital Planet and Go Digital) is a BBC radio programme broadcast on the BBC World Service and sister radio show to BBC News' Click TV.

The show is currently presented by Gareth Mitchell and with expert comments from Bill Thompson. The show is a weekly look at technology stories and news around the world.

From 2001-2004, it was presented by Tracey Logan and during that time it was one of the BBC's few webcast programmes, with cameras in the studio to provide a live feed.

The show was re-branded as Click from Digital Planet on 29 March 2011 to connect it with sister TV programme, Click, which is broadcast on BBC News Channel and BBC World News, and the broadcast length changed from 28 minutes, with first airing on Tuesdays at 12:30 GMT, to a live 18 minute broadcast at 18:30 GMT.

Click (2006 film)

Click is a 2006 American fantasy comedy film directed by Frank Coraci, written by Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe, and produced by Adam Sandler, who also starred in the lead role. The film co-stars Kate Beckinsale as his wife Donna and Christopher Walken as Morty. The film was released in the United States on June 23, 2006. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Sandler plays an overworked architect who neglects his family. When he acquires a universal remote that enables him to "fast forward" through unpleasant or outright dull parts of his life, he soon learns that those seemingly bad moments that he skips over contained valuable time with his family and important life lessons. Throughout the story, a man named Morty explains how the remote works and issues warnings. Filming began in late 2005 and was finished by early 2006. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup, making this the only Sandler film to be nominated for an Oscar.

Click (2010 film)

Click is a 2010 Hindi horror film directed by Sangeeth Sivan. The film is a remake of 2004 Thai horror film Shutter.

Click (Canadian TV series)

Click is a Canadian instructional television series which aired on CBC Television in 1962.

Click (magazine)

Click magazine is an award-winning digital entertainment magazine published in the Republic of Ireland.

Click covers gaming, technology and movies, and was first published in December 2008. It is produced on a monthly basis.

Click (ClariS song)

"Click" is a pop song by the Japanese duo and idol unit ClariS, written by Kz. It was released as the unit's ninth single on January 29, 2014 by SME Records. The song was used as the first opening theme to the 2014 anime series Nisekoi. A music video was produced for "Click", directed by Jungo. The single peaked at No. 7 on Japan's weekly Oricon singles chart.

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Usage examples of "click".

We are aware, certainly, that she is actressy and all that, but still it does not quite click.

I tugged out the flechette pistol Alem had given me and clicked off its safety.

Perry watched the numbers click past on the altigraph, two thousandthreefiveninethirteenup and up.

When the amah saw the nearly full cup on he table, she clicked her tongue.

Axis bowed slightly to Jayme and Moryson, his right fist clenched over the golden axes on his breast, then he strode from the room, his boot heels clicking sharply on the stone floor.

He clicked the lighter shut, dropped it in his pocket, and leaned back on the edge of the table, his ankles crossed, his arms folded, frowning down over his shoulder at his bescribbled manuscript.

The thief bleated as the lightning fast head stabbed, fishhook teeth clicking shut an inch from her face.

Pa set boughten locks, with keys that went into small, shaped holes, and turned and clicked.

By the time The Shadow had flicked the spike back into the tiny bradawl and dropped the instrument into his pocket, there was a click from the doorknob.

Four nights ago, Brye related, he had been awakened by peculiar clicking noises that could only have come from the detonators of his empty bombs.

His explanation made it sound possible, even somewhat simple, as if they were looking for the boy in a section of New York and not in the wilderness and ruined towns in the thousands of square clicks of O-Zone, which was itself a byword for everything unknown and unfathomable and empty and strange.

When Clunky winked, his metallic eyelid produced a loud clicking sound.

Remembering what Farder Coram had said, she tried to focus her mind on three symbols taken at random, and clicked the hands round to point at them, and found that if she held the alethiometer just so in her palms and gazed at it in a particular lazy way, as she thought of it, the long needle would begin to move more purposefully.

The daguerreograph clicked as it impressed a daguerreotype of her empty chair.

The machine walked across the vestibule, its heels clicking against the old, much-scuffed hardwood there, and it easily went up the first two steps, which was as far as it had to go to be able to proffer the datacom to Sarah.