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clicking




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clicking
     1. n. The sound or action of a click.
click
     1. n. 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
           I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened;  a click of one’s fingers
     2. n. (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
           tsk is a click in English.
     3. n. Sound made by a dolphin.
     4. n. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
     5. n. The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
           With the right software you can program your mouse to do a double click with a single click (but that's cheating)
     6. n.          (by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
     7. n. A pawl or similar catch.
     8. v. To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
     9. v. (transitive, computing, ambitransitive) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
     10. v. (transitive, computing) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
     11. v. (transitive, computing, advertising) To visit a web site.
           Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.
     12. v. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
           I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.
           From the home page, click through to the Products section.
     13. v. (intransitive) To emit a click.
           He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked.
     14. v. (intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
           Then it clicked - I had been going the wrong way all that time.
     15. v. (intransitive) To get on well.
           When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
     16. v. (dated, intransitive) To tick.
     17. v. (transitive, India) To take (a photograph) with a camera.
     18. interj. The sound of a click.
           Click! The door opened.
     19. n. alternative spelling of klick
     20. n. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
     21. n. (dialect) The latch of a door.
     22. v. (obsolete) To snatch.
     23. n. (US) (misspelling of clique)
     24. v. (US) (misspelling of clique)

Example Sentences

The clicking of high heels kind of hurts my ears. Do the people wearing them not notice? 



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