Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

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. (British) The act of snapping one's fingers.
3. (phonetics) 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. (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.

Example Sentences

As I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened.

There was a click in the front sitting-room. Mr. Pearce had extinguished the lamp.

tsk is a click in English.

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.

A wheel, with teeth in which a click or pawl engages to prevent backward motion; or the same with addition of another click through which power is imparted at intervals to move the wheel.

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, […]

But I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track, which then was synced to the Moog Modular.

Word Forms

• clicks
• clicking
• clicked

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Use click when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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