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:
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- 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:
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:
click verb (BECOME CLEAR)
C2 [ I ] informal to be understood, or become clear suddenly:
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)
clicknoun [ C ]
uk/klɪk/us/klɪk/click noun [ C ] (SOUND)
a short, sharp sound:
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 :
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 noun [ C ] (COMPUTER OPERATION)
A2 the act of pressing a button on the mouse (= small control device) of a computer to operate it
If something is (just) a click away, it is very easy to get on your computer, especially from the Internet:
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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