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单词 click
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clickverb

uk/klɪk/us/klɪk/

click verb (OPERATE COMPUTER)

A2 [ I or T ] to carry out a computer operation by pressing a button on the mouse or keyboard:

If you want to open a file, click twice on the icon for it.
When you have selected the file you want, click the "Open" box.

More examples

  • You draw the shape somewhere on your worksheet, click on it and copy it to the clipboard.
  • Click 'File' in the menu bar, then click 'Exit'.
  • Make sure the file you're copying to is open before you click 'Paste'.
  • To open a new document, click 'File', then click 'New'.
  • A website may have many different web pages for you to click on and explore.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Operating computers

  • aliasing
  • always-on
  • black hat
  • BMP
  • caps lock (key)
  • computerize
  • cut
  • enter
  • format
  • function
  • hacker
  • hash
  • keyboarder
  • punch
  • roll (sth) over sth
  • scroll bar
  • title bar
  • touchscreen
  • uninstall
  • zip

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click verb (MAKE SOUND)

C2 [ I or T ] to make a short, sharp sound, or to make something do this:

The door clicked shut behind her.
Can you hear that strange clicking noise?
UK Paul clicked his fingers (= moved his thumb against his middle finger to make a short sharp sound) to attract the waiter's attention.
Soldiers click their heels (= bring them sharply together) when they stand to attention.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Sounds made by objects, movement or impact

  • clash
  • crackling
  • ding
  • ding-a-ling
  • ding-dong
  • fizz
  • hoot
  • jangling
  • knock
  • pip
  • rasp
  • ringer
  • rumbling
  • sing
  • slam
  • swish
  • thud
  • twang
  • whine
  • whistle

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click verb (BECOME FRIENDLY)

C2 [ I ] informal to become friendly or popular:

Liz and I really clicked the first time we met.
The new daytime soap opera has yet to show signs that it's clicking with the television audience.

click verb (BECOME CLEAR)

C2 [ I ] informal to be understood, or become clear suddenly:

Suddenly everything clicked and I realized where I'd met him.
[ + question word ] As he talked about his schooldays, it suddenly clicked where I had met him before.
[ + that ] So it's finally clicked that you're going to have to get yourself a job, has it?
In the last act of the play, everything clicks into place.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Understanding and comprehending

  • apprehend
  • apprehension
  • at your fingertips idiom
  • attune
  • bear in on/upon
  • common
  • fathom
  • fingertip
  • hit
  • make sth/sb of sth/sb
  • make sth/sb out
  • mind
  • penetrate
  • picture
  • read between the lines idiom
  • reading
  • realization
  • take sth in
  • twig
  • understand

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Phrasal verb(s)

click away
click out

clicknoun [ C ]

uk/klɪk/us/klɪk/

click noun [ C ] (SOUND)

a short, sharp sound:

The soldier gave a click of his heels as he saluted.

specialized also click consonant phonetics a speech sound made by sucking air quickly into the mouth, but not into the lungs, using the tongue or lips :

Clicks are found in several southern African languages.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Sounds made by objects, movement or impact

  • clash
  • crackling
  • ding
  • ding-a-ling
  • ding-dong
  • fizz
  • hoot
  • jangling
  • knock
  • pip
  • rasp
  • ringer
  • rumbling
  • sing
  • slam
  • swish
  • thud
  • twang
  • whine
  • whistle

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Linguistics: phonology & phonetics

click noun [ C ] (COMPUTER OPERATION)

A2 the act of pressing a button on the mouse (= small control device) of a computer to operate it

(just) a click away

If something is (just) a click away, it is very easy to get on your computer, especially from the Internet:

All reference materials are just a click away in the computer databases.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Operating computers

  • aliasing
  • always-on
  • black hat
  • BMP
  • caps lock (key)
  • computerize
  • cut
  • enter
  • format
  • function
  • hacker
  • hash
  • keyboarder
  • punch
  • roll (sth) over sth
  • scroll bar
  • title bar
  • touchscreen
  • uninstall
  • zip

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Idiom(s)

clicks and mortar
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