Definitions for click

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Spelling: [klik]

IPA: /klɪk/

Click is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in click (ccikl).

Definitions for click

noun

1. a slight, sharp sound:
2. a small device for preventing backward movement of a mechanism, as a detent or pawl.
3. Phonetics. any one of a variety of ingressive, usually implosive, speech sounds, phonemic in some languages, produced by suction occlusion and plosive or affricative release.
4. any one of a variety of familiar sounds used in calling or urging on horses or other animals, in expressing reprimand or sympathy, or produced in audible kissing.
5. Computers. the act of rapidly depressing and releasing a button on a mouse or other input device, usually the left-hand button, as to select an icon.
6. a kilometer.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to click.
2. to strike together with a click:
3. Computers. to select (a screen object) by rapidly depressing and releasing one of the buttons on a mouse or other input device, usually the left-hand button: Compare right-click. to rapidly depress and release (a button on a mouse or other input device):

verb (used without object)

1. to emit or make a slight, sharp sound, or series of such sounds, as by the cocking of a pistol:
2. Informal. to succeed; make a hit: to fit together; function well together: to become intelligible.
3. Computers. to rapidly depress and release one of the buttons on a mouse or other input device, usually the left-hand button: Compare right-click.

Origin of click

1575-85; perhaps imitative, but perhaps Dutch klick (noun), klikken (v.)

Examples for click

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At the click of the gate-latch she started and turned towards him.

On a nearer view it is more like a Tower-of-Babel concern, with its click and clatter.

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A click sends a user to a statement, a list of passenger nationalities, emergency call-center numbers, and other information.

From an inner room came the muffled click, click, click of a type-writer.

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On the contrary, it was up on the table, imitating the click of the gun with a spoon.