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单词 clicker
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clickern.

Brit. /ˈklɪkə/, U.S. /ˈklɪkər/
Forms: 1600s– clicker, 1800s cliquer (rare).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: click v.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < click v.1 + -er suffix1. In sense 1a probably with allusion to the sound made by the leather-cutter's knife when cutting out the component pieces of a shoe or boot (especially using a metal-edged pattern or template). In sense 1b apparently a transferred use of sense 1a, reflecting an additional duty of the foreman shoemaker (compare quot. 1699 at sense 1a), although perhaps compare use of click v.1 to denote speech or chatter (see quot. a1500 at click v.1 1a and etymological note at that entry), and possibly also click v.2 The following earlier example apparently shows an independent formation < click v.2 + -er suffix1, with the sense ‘a person who grabs or clutches at something’:1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix 66 Thou art..such a clicker at the slightest shadows of similitude. The form cliquer reflects folk-etymological association with clique n.; compare quot. 1837 at sense 1a.
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a. A foreman shoemaker who cuts out the leather for boots and shoes and distributes it among the workers. Also: a worker who cuts out (parts of) the uppers for boots and shoes.In quot. 1699: a foreman shoemaker who also solicits custom from passers-by (see sense 1b).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > shoemaking > shoemaker > types of
clicker1699
chuckler1759
chamber-master1823
shoemakeress1860
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Clicker, the Shoe-maker's Journey-man, or Servant, that Cutts out all the Work, and stands at or walks before the Door, and saies, what d'ye' lack Sir, what d'ye buy Madam.
?1798 Theatr. Olio 16 Correcting some mistakes made by the Clicker in cutting out the pattern.
1810 Ann. Reg. 1808 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 122/1 A young man..who was what is termed a clicker, or foreman to a boot and shoemaker.
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades 403 In every large shop one man does nought but cut and give out work—he is the cliquer, or foreman of the party, or clique.
1897 Rep. Results Census N.Z. 1896 147/2 Bootmaker, manufacturer, apprentice, assistant, clerk, clicker, cordwainer, cutter.
1960 Guardian 1 Mar. 7/5 A clicker (a maker of the uppers for women's shoes).
1995 Arena Dec. 38/2 Jason Amesbury, bespoke shoemaker, is on a mission to save the exquisite skill that is the world of Piccadilly's last-makers, clickers and closers.
b. slang. A person employed to solicit custom for a shopkeeper; spec. (in early use) one employed by a shoemaker. Cf. tout n.1 2. Obsolete.With quot. 1699 cf. note at sense 1a.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > one who attracts customers into shop
clicker1699
inviter1837
puller1885
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Clicker, the Shoe-maker's Journey-man, or Servant, that..stands at or walks before the Door, and saies, what d'ye' lack Sir, what d'ye buy Madam.
1706 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) IV. 17 Let Clickers bark on the whole day at their post.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Clicker, a low word for the servant of a salesman, who stands at the door to invite customers.
1853 M. Velázquez de la Cadena Pronouncing Dict. Spanish & Eng. (new ed.) i. 417/1 Servant of a salesman, vulgarly called barker, clicker, or drummer.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 120 Clicker, a female touter at a bonnet shop.
c. Printing. The foreman of a companionship (companionship n. 4) who divides and distributes the copy among the compositors, keeps a record of the work done by each, attends to the paging, placing of headlines, etc., and draws up the invoice. Now historical. N.E.D. (1889) notes that the term was apparently introduced ‘between 1770 and 1808’, but evidence from this period is lacking.
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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > compositor > body of > foreman of
clicker1808
1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 466 The clicker..applies to the overseer for the copy.
1885 Scotsman 26 Aug. 3/6 Compositor—First-class clicker, smart at upmaking.
1936 C. J. Holmes Self & Partners viii. 129 Collimore, the clicker of my companionship, was a pleasant fellow.
1972 P. Gaskell New Introd. Bibliogr. 193 The clicker..kept an account of the number of lines that each man set, both in a line-book and by marking the copy.
d. Manufacturing Technology. A person who rules lines using a pen guided by a mechanism featuring a wheel which clicks. Cf. click v.1 6. Obsolete. rare.
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1869 Eng. Mech. 5 Nov. 166/1 After this ground is thoroughly dried and set, the paper is taken to the ‘clickers’.
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a. A thing which clicks (in various senses of click v.1) Sometimes: spec. a catch or detent which engages with the notches of a ratchet wheel, preventing it from turning backwards; = click n.1 3(a).
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1718 S. Keimer Brand Pluck'd from Burning 65 The Maker of Watches..Did hang on her Girdle..A Rouncifal Clicker of Gold.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 328 The Press-man..Sets the Rounce to what position he will, only be lifting up the iron Clicker that stops the wheel.
1810 J. Barlow Let. 15 Jan. in T. Jefferson Papers (2005) II. 145 A strong steel worm Spring terminating in a rod with notches & a clicker to stop its flying back.
1854 Geelong Advertiser & Intelligencer 6 May 5/1 Why surely this clock is a very bad clicker.
1946 Billboard 30 Nov. 75/1 Jim's personal standing made the show a solid clicker.
1974 Times 4 Apr. 37/3 The flashing red light and loud ‘clicker’..persuade front-seat occupants to fasten their belts.
2011 S. E. Burkhardt Using Brain to Spell i. 23 My husband and I made a spinner from a bicycle wheel.., complete with a clicker and forty-four numbers, just like lotto.
b. A device that makes a clicking sound, used to train a dog or other animal to behave in a certain way or perform a particular task. Cf. clicker training n. at Compounds.
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1941 W. T. James in C. R. Stockard et al. Genetic & Endocrinic Basis for Differences in Form & Behavior iv. 562 Motor reactions were formed to the clicker, verbal stimulus, and a whistle.
1962 S. S. Tomkins Affect Imagery Consciousness I. xi. 393 All four monkeys showed attenuation of the fear response when the clicker was presented during brain stimulation period.
1998 T. D'Elgin Everything Bird Bk. v. 247 Trainers first use a clicker, or the word good! Then they reward the bird with a scratch on the head and an edible treat.
2005 C. Coile Congratulations! It's a Dog! viii. 112 A lot of people balk at clicker training simply because..they don't have a clicker.
c. colloquial (chiefly North American). A remote control, esp. for a television.
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1974 World (Oak Park, Illinois) 27 Jan. ii. 9/1 It won't be quite so easy to move your television set around the house and your remote control clicker may not work.
1979 Times 1 Dec. 22 (caption) Remote control car responds to hand-held clicker.
1992 New Yorker 13 Apr. 33/1 Sleeping in the television room, in the middle of the night I turn over on the clicker and the TV turns on.
2002 C. von Ziegesar Gossip Girl 133 Chuck..grabbed the clicker, and changed the channel.
3. A horse that strikes the forefoot with the toe of the hind hoof (typically with a clicking sound) while trotting, cantering, etc., as indicative of a defective gait. Cf. click v.1 2. rare.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > trot > that trots > in particular way
daisy-cutter1791
clickera1888
a1888 Howden Fair in Notes & Queries (1888) 5 May 345/2 Some for panting scarce could draw, And there was clickers too, I knaw, All at the fair at Howden.
1899 I. N. Bailey in M. T. Richardson Pract. Horseshoer ix. 210 My method of curing a clicker, that is, a horse that strikes its hind feet against the front ones is as follows.
1976 G. E. Campion Lincs. Dial. v. 31 If the animal happened to be a ‘clicker’, that is it caught its front hoofs on the rear ones when it was running, there were extra beats in the rhythm.

Compounds

clicker-hole n. Obsolete rare the inlet valve of a bellows.
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1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 69 The other end of this pipe is to be made fast air-tight to the clicker-hole of the second pair of bellows.
clicker training n. a method of training animals by rewarding good behaviour with a ‘click’ from a clicker accompanied by a treat (often a food reward).
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1993 P. Maggitti Guide to Well-behaved Cat 130/2 Clicker training can be used for more than calling a cat across a room.
2008 Whole Dog Jrnl. Mar. 11/1 The goal of clicker training is to get your dog to understand that she can make the click happen by offering certain behaviors.

Derivatives

ˈclickership n. Printing (now historical) the office or role of a clicker (sense 1c).
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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > compositor > body of > foreman of > office of
clickership1854
1854 T. Ford Compositor's Handbk. iv. 99 Companionships are of two kinds; one, in which each person takes copy from the overseer,..the other, called a Clickership, where the work or copy is given out, made up, completed, charged, and received for in gross, under the management and control of a person styled a Clicker.
1949 Econ. Hist. Rev. New Ser. 2 93 The companionship system and the clickership appear to have avoided some of the worst abuses of piece work.
2003 M. Belson On the Press v. 138 The compositors who dealt with all the examination papers..were known as the ‘Exam Ship’ under the clickership of Fred Matthews.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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