click

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

   After thinking for hours, the solution clicked.

2. 2
   verb

   to produce a click

   Xhosa speakers click

3. 3
   verb

   to move or strike with a noise

   They clicked on the light.

4. 4
   noun

   depression of a button on a computer mouse

   a click on the right button for example

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.

   tsk is a click in English.

7. 7
   noun

   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. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.

8. 8
   noun

   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.

Etymology

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.