click

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.

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

The act of snapping one's fingers.UK

An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.

• tsk is a click in English.

The sound made by a dolphin.

The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.

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.

A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.broadly

• 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 pawl or similar catch.

• 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.

A knock or blow.UKobsoleteslang

• 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, [

A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.

To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.transitive

• [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.
• She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash.

To emit a click.intransitive

• Surely that picture will be fixed for ever, for I heard the cameras clicking round me like crickets in a field.

To snap one's fingers.UK

To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).

To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.transitive

To visit (a website).transitive

• Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.

To navigate by clicking a mouse button.intransitive

• I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.
• From the home page, click through to the Products section.

To make sense suddenly.intransitive

• Then it clicked—I had been going the wrong way all that time.

To get along well.intransitive

• When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.

To tick.datedintransitive

• the varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door

The sound of a click.

• Click! The door opened.

Alternative spelling of klick (“kilometer; kilometers per hour”).alt-ofalternativeslang

• No siree, Bob, we are the only ship in three million clicks.

A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.

The latch of a door.UKdialectal

To snatch.obsolete

• ‘I take 'em to prevent abuses,’ Cants he, and then the Crucifix And Chalice from the Altar clicks.

A kind of throw.

• inside click; outside click; cross click

Misspelling of clique.USalt-ofmisspelling

Misspelling of clique.USalt-ofmisspelling