click

Pronunciation

• enPR: klĭk, IPA: /klɪk/, [kʰl̥ɪk]
• Homophones: clique, klick

Noun

click (plural clicks)

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.
   • As I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened.
2. (Britain) The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.
3. (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
   • Synonym: click consonant
   • tsk is a click in English.
4. Sound made by a dolphin.
5. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
6. (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.
7. (by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
8. A pawl or similar catch.
9. (UK, slang, obsolete) A knock or blow.
10. A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.

Verb

click (third-person singular simple present clicks, present participle clicking, simple past and past participle clicked)

1. (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
2. (intransitive) To emit a click.
3. (Britain) To snap the fingers.
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.
6. (transitive, computing, advertising) To visit (a web site).
   • Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.
7. (intransitive, graphical user interface) 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.
8. (intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
   • Then it clicked—I had been going the wrong way all that time.
9. (intransitive) To get along well.
   • When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
10. (dated, intransitive) To tick.
11. (transitive, India) To take (a photograph) with a camera.
12. (intransitive, India) To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
13. (intransitive, India) Of a film, to be successful at the box office.

Interjection

click

1. The sound of a click.
   • Click! The door opened.

Derived terms

Related terms

• cliché

Noun

click (plural clicks)

1. Alternative spelling of klick

Noun

click (plural clicks)

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

Verb

click (third-person singular simple present clicks, present participle clicking, simple past and past participle clicked)

1. (obsolete) To snatch.

Noun

click (plural clicks)

1. (US) Misspelling of clique.

Verb

click (third-person singular simple present clicks, present participle clicking, simple past and past participle clicked)

1. (US) Misspelling of clique.

Noun

click m (plural clicks)

1. Alternative form of clic (especially of a computer mouse)

Noun

click m (invariable)

1. Alternative form of clic (especially of a computer mouse)

Noun

click m (plural clicks)

1. Misspelling of clic.