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click

The English word “click” has 29 meanings listed here.

  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.
  2. The act of snapping one's fingers.
  3. An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
  4. The sound made by a dolphin.
  5. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
  6. 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. A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
  8. A pawl or similar catch.
  9. A knock or blow.
  10. A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
  11. A click track.
  12. To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
  13. To emit a click.
  14. To snap one's fingers.
  15. To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
  16. To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
  17. To visit (a website).
  18. To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
  19. To make sense suddenly.
  20. To get along well.
  21. To tick.
  22. To take (a photograph) with a camera.
  23. To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
  24. Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
  25. The sound of a click.
  26. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
  27. The latch of a door.
  28. To snatch.
  29. A kind of throw.
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