The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. A clicking sound or action. vb. (present participle of click English)
Usage examples of "clicking".
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.
The thief bleated as the lightning fast head stabbed, fishhook teeth clicking shut an inch from her face.
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.
When Clunky winked, his metallic eyelid produced a loud clicking sound.
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.
The digitized mirror was clicking and flexing, moving in tiny increments of a few wavelengths of light.
His other hand in his pocket, Durand kept pressing the box that gave out clicking sounds.
Then, with Durand clicking at the dummy box that shielded the real secret, the robot began its slow march into the theater.
Sounding as brittle and juiceless as things long dead, clicking flitters of startled grasshoppers shot every which way through the grass.
He bent over Kes again, reading the information clicking through the bio-scanner and the diagnostic panel of the bed.
Beneath Duma, the marabunta paused to swing its giant clicking antennae toward a patch of reed-shadow near the inner ravine wall.
Duma, the marabunta paused to swing its giant clicking antennae toward a patch of reed-shadow near the inner ravine wall.
She wheedled, her mouth making clicking sounds, but no deep sounds now that her oxy was gone.
Rhulad said, resuming his pacing, the macabre clicking sounds of coin edges snapping together the only sound to follow his pronouncement.
Her heels made clicking sounds on the gray porch decking as Pilar crossed to the massive, solid mahogany door, nearly three inches thick.