click

Etymology 1
of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (Modern Dutch: ), Old High German (Modern German:, ), Danish , Swedish , Norwegian , Norwegian.

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  The act of snapping one's fingers.
 * 3)  An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
 * 4) Sound made by a dolphin.
 * 5) The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
 * 6)  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.
 * 7)  A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
 * 8) A pawl or similar catch.
 * 9)  A knock or blow.
 * 10) A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
 * 1)  A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
 * 2) A pawl or similar catch.
 * 3)  A knock or blow.
 * 4) A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
 * 1)  A knock or blow.
 * 2) A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
 * 1) A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
 * 1) A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: щракане
 * Finnish:, , naksaus
 * French: ,
 * Galician: estralido, estalido, chasquexo
 * Macedonian: чкрапање, шкрапање, штракање
 * Maori: ngetengete, ngotongoto
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: klikk
 * Nynorsk: klikk
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: lapitpit
 * Ukrainian: кла́цання, клац
 * Vietnamese: tiếng


 * Bulgarian: цъкащ звук
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 搭嘴音, 喌音
 * Finnish: avulsiivi, naksausäänne,
 * German: ,
 * Italian: consonante avulsiva
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: щёлкающий звук
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lapitpit
 * Vietnamese: tiếng, tiếng


 * Danish: klik
 * Finnish: naksaus
 * French:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lapitpit
 * Ukrainian: кла́цання, клац


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: napsautus
 * Macedonian: чкрапнување
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:
 * Telugu:
 * Ukrainian: кла́цання


 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: kee bił odalkalí
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: кликване
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, kliknutí
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: musklako, klako
 * Finnish: napsautus, klikkaus
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: დაწკაპუნება
 * German:, , Klicken
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Macedonian: клик
 * Malay: ketik
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: klikk, museklikk
 * Nynorsk: klikk, museklikk
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, clicare
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: sneck
 * Scottish Gaelic: briogadh
 * Sotho: klika
 * Spanish:, , , cliqueo
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: кла́цання, клік
 * Vietnamese: lượt nhấp chuột, lượt nhấn chuột, lượt bấm chuột, lượt ấn chuột, lượt, cú nhấp chuột

Verb



 * 1)  To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
 * 2)  To emit a click.
 * 3)  To snap the fingers.
 * 4)  To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
 * 5)  To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
 * 6)  To visit (a web site).
 * 7)  To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
 * 8)  To make sense suddenly.
 * 9)  To get along well.
 * 10)  To tick.
 * 11)  To take (a photograph) with a camera.
 * 12)  To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
 * 13)  Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
 * 1)  To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
 * 2)  To make sense suddenly.
 * 3)  To get along well.
 * 4)  To tick.
 * 5)  To take (a photograph) with a camera.
 * 6)  To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
 * 7)  Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
 * 1)  To tick.
 * 2)  To take (a photograph) with a camera.
 * 3)  To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
 * 4)  Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
 * 1)  To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
 * 2)  Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
 * 1)  To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
 * 2)  Of a film, to be successful at the box office.

Usage notes
Style guides for technical writers generally recommend using click transitively (for example: click the button), but intransitive use with on (click on the icon) is also widespread. The style guides do accept the use of in in phrases like click in the field.

Translations

 * Assamese: টিপা, ক্লিক কৰা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: cvaknout
 * Finnish: naksauttaa
 * French:
 * German:
 * Luxembourgish: klécken
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: whakatokara
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cnag
 * Telugu:
 * Ukrainian: кла́цати, кла́цнути


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: кликвам
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: kliknout,
 * Danish: klikke
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: הקליק
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: mengeklik
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Macedonian: клика, кликнува
 * Malay: mengklik
 * Maori: pāwhiri
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: clyiquer
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: clica
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cliog, briog
 * Spanish: hacer clic, clicar,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: tıklamak
 * Ukrainian: кла́цати, кла́цнути, клі́кати, клі́кнути
 * Vietnamese: nhấn chuột (on: vào), (vào), nhấp chuột (vào),  (vào), bấm chuột (vào),  (vào), ấn chuột (vào),  (vào),  (vào)


 * Czech: cvaknout
 * Esperanto: klaketi
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: naksahtaa
 * Macedonian: клика, кликнува
 * Maori: ngetengete, ngotongoto, ngongoto, whakatokara
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cnag
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lumapitpit
 * Ukrainian: кла́цати, кла́цнути
 * Vietnamese: kêu


 * Armenian: կտտացնել
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: kliknout
 * Danish: venstreklikke, klikke
 * Esperanto: klaki, alklaki
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: აწკაპუნებს
 * German:, click on anklicken
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: cliceáil, gliogáil
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Macedonian: клика, кликнува
 * Malay: mengklik
 * Maori: pāwhiri
 * Norman: clyiquer
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: clica
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scots: sneck
 * Scottish Gaelic: cliog
 * Spanish: hacer clic,, clicar
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Turkish: tıklamak
 * Ukrainian: кла́цати, кла́цнути, клі́кати, клі́кнути
 * Vietnamese: nhấn chuột, nhấp chuột, bấm chuột, ấn chuột,


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Macedonian: светнува
 * Portuguese: cair a ficha
 * Russian: (e.g. "до меня́ (наконе́ц) дошло́")
 * Spanish: caerle la ficha
 * Swedish: falla på plats,
 * Ukrainian: дійти́


 * Czech: si
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: bejön (egymásnak)
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Vietnamese:, tâm đầu ý hiệp

Interjection

 * 1) The sound of a click.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: cvak
 * Finnish:, klik
 * Macedonian: штрак, чкрап, шкрап
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: клац

Etymology 3
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
 * 2)  The latch of a door.

Etymology 4
From, a variant of , perhaps from , , a byform of. More at.

Verb

 * 1)  To snatch.

Noun

 * 1)  A kind of throw.

Noun

 * 1)  (especially of a computer mouse)

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  (especially of a computer mouse)