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click I. \ˈklik\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) transitive verb 1. a. : to strike or move with a click : cause to click < click his heels together > < clicked down the lid of the card file — Emilie Glen > b. : to produce with clicks — usually used with out < click out a rhythm on castanets > < click out a message on a typewriter > 2. : to cut out (as parts of a shoe upper) by using a small knife or by operating a die-cutting machine intransitive verb 1. a. : to make a click < the latch clicked as the door closed > < billiard balls clicked in the next room > b. : to move with a click < hearing her heels click across the kitchen tiles — Leslie Ford > < the camera adjustment lever clicked into position > 2. a. : to fit or agree exactly < personal opinions have their value particularly when they click with experimental results — W.C.Allee > b. : to fit together : hit it off < he thought of Dornford and Dinny and whether they would click — John Galsworthy > < explores the nature of the diversity of human beings and their compulsions, what makes them click as mates — David Tilden > < we were sitting on the … big town bridge trying to click with a few girls — Walter Macken > c. : to function or operate efficiently, smoothly, and successfully especially in or as one of a team < the platoon's teamwork was still clicking — Mack Morriss > d. : succeed; especially : to make a hit < the selling aid that clicks … for any promotional effort — Retailing Daily > < a movie that clicks > < a bit player who finally clicked in a first-rate Broadway play > 3. : forge vi 3 4. : to emphasize a musical beat by suddenly quickening the baton's motion toward the end of its stroke II. noun (-s) Etymology: probably of imitative origin 1. a. : a slight sharp noise (as that made by the cocking of a pistol or the latching of a door) < the click of billiard balls > b. (1) : a sound that in some languages is a speech sound made by enclosing air between two stop articulations of the tongue, enlarging the enclosure to rarefy the air, and suddenly opening the enclosure : a velaric suction stop (2) usually capitalized : a language family of Africa including Khoisan, Sandawe, and Hatsa characterized by extensive employment of clicks c. : the audible movement from one graduation to another in the rear sight of a firearm; also : such a graduation in a sight 2. : a part (as a ratchet catch or lock tumbler) to control the movement of a mechanism or the movable part of a device: as a. : detent b. : a pawl especially of small size 3. dialect England : a sharp unexpected blow or rap 4. of a horse : the act of forging 5. : a sudden flick of a conductor's baton marking an emphatic musical beat III. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: alteration of cleek (I) dialect Britain : clutch, seize, snatch IV. intransitive verb 1. : to catch on < an issue that clicked with the voters > 2. : to become clear, understandable, or appreciable < for a moment I don't understand, then it clicks — Joe Levine > also : to produce an understanding or appreciation < something clicked in my mind > 3. : to select, activate, or access an item (as an icon or menu option) on a computer screen by positioning the cursor over the item and depressing a button on the mouse or other input device < click on the icon to open the file > also : to depress a mouse button < click here > transitive verb : to select (an item on a computer screen) by positioning the cursor over the item and depressing a button on the mouse or other input device < click the icon > also : to depress a button of (a mouse) • click·able \-əbəl\ adjective V. noun : an instance of clicking < a mouse click > VI. variant of klick herein |