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to click

to click

542 1.0
Press a mouse button to select or open something on a screen
  • verb
  • /klɪk/
  • Texting
translation icon : hacer clic en
  • Electronic IEP programs often require the user to point, click, and select from a drop-down box of choices.
  • click on a link
  • click a button
  • click the icon

Once, once I actually made the, I clicked purchase.

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Examples

  • The target stimulus appeared in the middle of the screen, and participants clicked the matching shape.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Please go to our website, hrw.org and click on Donate Now.

  • All we want you to do is click one of them.

  • So people will go and click on that e-mail.

  • We're just going to click that now.

  • In the end, I finally decided to click "send" and hope for the best.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Members go to the club website, click, and go to the entering process.

    Academic text (2008)
  • "Touch and Learn" provides images with hotspots that students can click for text or a video.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Young readers can click the text to have it read aloud again and again.

    Academic text (2015)
  • To find more information, click the link provided on the home page.

Synonyms

to tap the screen
vsto click
1 2.8

Touch the screen lightly with your finger to choose or open something

is done by pressing a physical button on a pointing device not by touching

Phrasal Verbs

Open something so it makes a small sharp sound

4.2

To start working well and fast after a slow time

to click off
  • Informal
5.6

To finish a task quickly and well

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

A series of quick, sharp sounds like train wheels or high heels

A fast, rhythmic clicking sound made by machines or repeated actions

Surface Forms

click infinitive
clicked past
clicked past participle
clicking present participle
clicks third person singular

Etymology

Click is a word that copies a 'short, sharp sound', like clack or snap, and the action of a computer mouse was named after that little noise. So to click a mouse is to press it and make that sound to select something.