click
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1.1
- noun
- /klɪk/
- Texting
:
clic
- With a quick click of the mouse, she opened the document and began editing.
- mouse click
- one click
- double-click
Yeah, you get likes, clicks, little hearts, things like that.
- Yeah, you get likes, clicks, little hearts, things like that.
- Just go to the website, do the clicks, everything's done for you.
- I'm not like desperate for more clicks to put it.
- Papers, no papers, apps, clicks, doesn't matter, you know?
Examples
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The results of the search are themselves hypertext links; one click and your browser moves to that site.
Academic text (1997) -
Students choose the result that, with one click, will provide them with the most relevant and accurate information.
Academic text (2012) -
The total number of clicks to locate this information ranged from 7 to 20.
Academic text (2006) -
The training manuals include data sets, click-by-click instructions, and screenshots of command results.
Academic text (2004) -
With a few keystrokes or mouse clicks, Alex could morph him to Donald Duck.
Fiction book (1999) -
He made a single click on the icon to start the download.
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After a click of the button, the program launched without any issues.
Synonyms
3
1.6
An action of pressing and releasing a mouse button once to choose or open something
Compounds
3
1.6
An action of pressing and releasing a mouse button once to choose or open something
1
7.6
A beetle that snaps its body to flip into the air and make a quick clicking sound
How Engaged
- Texting
68
2.9
∞
1.0
113
1.8
- Jargon
39
3.9
- Texting
174
1.1
- Texting
80
3.0
- Jargon
12
4.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
Click names the tiny 'short, sharp sound' you make when you press a mouse button or similar device, and the action took its name from the sound. So a click is the press or the sound that opens or selects something on the screen.