to click
- verb
- /klɪk/
- Texting
- 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.
- Once, once I actually made the, I clicked purchase.
- So people will go and click on that e-mail.
- Also, subscribe if you're not already and click those post notifications on.
Examples
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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.
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All we want you to do is click one of them.
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So people will go and click on that e-mail.
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We're just going to click that now.
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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
Touch the screen lightly with your finger to choose or open something
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
An action of pressing and releasing a mouse button once to choose or open something
A beetle that snaps its body to flip into the air and make a quick clicking sound
Surface Forms
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.