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click¹

  • /klɪk/
  • [kʰl̥ɪk]

Sounds like clique, klick · Rhymes with -ɪk

Where it comes from

Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s. Compare Saterland Frisian klikke (“to click”), Middle Dutch clicken (Modern Dutch: klikken (“to click”)), Old High German klecchen (Modern German: klecken, klicken (“to click”)), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”), Norwegian klikke (“to click”), Norwegian klekke (“to hatch”).

noun clicks

  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. As I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened.
  2. UK The act of snapping one's fingers.
  3. An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure. tsk is a click in English.

    Similar: click consonant

  4. The 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. broadly A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed. The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partl
  8. 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.
  9. UK, obsolete, slang A knock or blow. 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, […]
  10. A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
  11. informal A click track. But I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track, which then was synced to the Moog Modular.

verb clicks · clicking · clicked

  1. transitive To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click. [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.
  2. intransitive To emit a click. Surely that picture will be fixed for ever, for I heard the cameras clicking round me like crickets in a field.
  3. UK To snap one's fingers.
  4. To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
  5. transitive To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
  6. transitive To visit (a website). Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.
  7. intransitive To navigate by clicking a mouse button. I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.
  8. intransitive To make sense suddenly. Then it clicked—I had been going the wrong way all that time.
  9. intransitive To get along well. When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
  10. dated, intransitive To tick. the varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door
  11. India, transitive To take (a photograph) with a camera. Brad immediately took out his Iphone^([sic]) and clicked a picture of the plant and posted it up on Google and clicked search.
  12. India, intransitive To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
  13. India, intransitive Of a film, to be successful at the box office.

interjection

  1. The sound of a click. Click! The door opened.

click²

  • /klɪk/
  • [kʰl̥ɪk]

Sounds like clique, klick · Rhymes with -ɪk

noun clicks

  1. alternative, slang Alternative spelling of klick (“kilometer; kilometers per hour”). No siree, Bob, we are the only ship in three million clicks.

click³

  • /klɪk/
  • [kʰl̥ɪk]

Sounds like clique, klick · Rhymes with -ɪk

Where it comes from

From Middle English clike, from Old French clique (“latch”).

noun clicks

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

click⁴

  • /klɪk/
  • [kʰl̥ɪk]

Sounds like clique, klick · Rhymes with -ɪk

Where it comes from

From Middle English cleken, a variant of clechen (“to grab”), perhaps from Old English *clēċan, *clǣċan, a byform of clyċċan (“to clutch”). More at clutch.

verb clicks · clicking · clicked

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

noun clicks

  1. A kind of throw. inside click; outside click; cross click

click⁵

  • /klɪk/
  • [kʰl̥ɪk]

Sounds like clique, klick · Rhymes with -ɪk

noun

  1. US, misspelling Misspelling of clique

verb

  1. US, misspelling Misspelling of clique

Click⁶

proper noun Clicks

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable A ghost town in Llano County, Texas, United States, named after settler Malachi Click.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: clack, clink, flick, snap, penetrate, chink, get across, chatter, sink in, get through, detent, pawl, come home, dawn, suction stop, dog

Translations

Every language

noun sharp sound

Españolchasquido
Portuguêsestalido, estalo
Françaisdéclic, clic
Русскийщёлканье ščólkanʹje, щелчо́к ščelčók
Tiếng Việttiếng lách cách

noun in phonetics

Españolchasquido
中文搭嘴音, 喌音 zhōuyīn
Portuguêsclique
DeutschSchnalzlaut, Klick
Italianoconsonante avulsiva
Русскийщёлкающий звук ščólkajuščij zvuk
Tiếng Việttiếng tắc lưỡi, tiếng tặc lưỡi, âm chắt, âm mút

noun sound made by a dolphin

Españolchasquido
Françaisclic
Русскийщёлканье ščólkanʹje, щелчо́к ščelčók

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

Русскийщёлканье ščólkanʹje

noun act of pressing a button on a computer mouse

Españolclic, pulsado, aprieto, cliqueo
한국어클릭 keullik
日本語クリック kurikku
中文點擊 /点击 diǎnjī
Portuguêsclique
Françaisclic
DeutschKlick, Mausklick, Klicken
Italianoclicca
Ελληνικάκλικ klik
Românăclic, clicare
Русскийщелчо́к ščelčók, клик klik
Tiếng Việtlượt nhấp chuột, lượt nhấn chuột, lượt bấm chuột, lượt ấn chuột, lượt kích, cú nhấp chuột
العربيةنَقْرَة naqra

verb transitive: operate so as to make click

Portuguêsestalar
Françaiscliquer
Deutschklicken
Русскийщёлкать ščólkatʹ, щёлкнуть ščólknutʹ, кли́кать klíkatʹ, кли́кнуть klíknutʹ

verb intransitive: emit a click

Portuguêsestalar
Deutschschnalzen
Русскийщёлкать ščólkatʹ, щёлкнуть ščólknutʹ
Tiếng Việtkêu lách cách

verb transitive: press and release (button on a mouse)

Españolhacer clic, clicar, cliquear
한국어클릭하다 keullikhada, 누르다 nureuda
日本語クリックする kurikku suru
中文點擊 /点击 diǎnjī
Portuguêsapertar, clicar
Françaiscliquer
Deutschklicken
Italianocliccare
Românăclica
Русскийщёлкать ščólkatʹ, щёлкнуть ščólknutʹ, кли́кать klíkatʹ, кли́кнуть klíknutʹ, нажать nažatʹ
Tiếng Việtnhấn chuột (on: vào), nhấn (vào), nhấp chuột (vào), nhấp (vào), bấm chuột (vào), bấm (vào)
العربيةنَقَرَ naqara
עבריתהקליק hiklík

verb intransitive: click the left button of a mouse

Españolhacer clic, cliquear, clicar
Portuguêsclicar
Françaissur) cliquer
Deutschklicken, anklicken
Italianosu) cliccare
Românăclica
Русскийщёлкать ščólkatʹ, щёлкнуть ščólknutʹ, кли́кать klíkatʹ, кли́кнуть klíknutʹ
Tiếng Việtnhấn chuột, nhấp chuột, bấm chuột, ấn chuột, kích
العربيةنَقَرَ naqara

verb intransitive: make sense suddenly

Españolcaerle la ficha
Portuguêscair a ficha
Русскийдойти́ dojtí

verb intransitive: get on well at a first meeting

Españolcongeniar, coincidir
Portuguêsencaixar
Tiếng Việttâm đầu ý hợp, tâm đầu ý hiệp

intj sound of a click

Portuguêsclique
Русскийщёлк ščolk

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@misc{click_2026,
  title = {click},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/click},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}