mouse click
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1.6
- noun
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clic del ratón
- With just one mouse click, you can download the app and start using it immediately.
- a few mouse clicks
So someone pressing a key on keyboard, putting the USB stick in a slot, a mouse click.
- So someone pressing a key on keyboard, putting the USB stick in a slot, a mouse click.
Examples
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The package also details 12 sample problems, describing each keystroke and mouse click required to arrive at the solutions.
Academic text (1995) -
The shapes were then "grouped" together to enable moving the shapes with a single mouse click and/or copying and pasting them as one selection.
Academic text (2015) -
"From which we learn what?" A mouse click selected a name from among the volunteers.
Fiction book (2002) -
Where is the information to support your hypothesis just a mouse click away?
Blog text (25) -
Now, look for the Slide Show section and then uncheck the Show menu on right mouse click option.
Blog text (12) -
Mouse-clicking a link would cause the system to retrieve the target document.
Academic text (2012) -
The system is interactive enough to rate a student's performance on the number of mouse clicks used to execute a teaching problem.
Academic text (1995) -
Perhaps one day there will be a charge for each keystroke and/or mouse click.
Blog text (25) -
The creators of Solid Edge put a lot of effort into usability, and this shows in how few mouse clicks are needed for common operations.
Academic text (1998) -
With a few mouse clicks, geneticists say they could choose from a range of flavors, textures, and colors.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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1.1
A quick press of a mouse button to select or open something
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'mouse' (the pointing device) + 'click' (the act of pressing/releasing a button) straightforwardly denote the action of pressing a mouse button. This follows a common noun‑noun compounding pattern found across languages (e.g. Spanish 'clic de ratón'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Mouse click comes from the small computer device called a mouse, which looked a bit like the animal and often had a cord like a tail, and the soft click sound the button makes when you press it. So a mouse click means 'to press and release a button on a computer mouse'.