CLICK | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of click in English clickverb uk /klɪk/ us /klɪk/

click verb (OPERATE COMPUTER)

Add to word list Add to word list A2 [ I or T ] to carry out a computer operation by pressing a button on the mouse or keyboard: click on If you want to open a file, click twice on the icon for it. When you have selected the file you want, click the "Open" box.

• You draw the shape somewhere on your worksheet, click on it and copy it to the clipboard.
• Click "File" in the menu bar, then click "Exit".
• Make sure the file you're copying to is open before you click "Paste".
• To open a new document, click "File", then click "New".
• A website may have many different web pages for you to click on and explore.

Operating computers

• admin
• administrator
• aliasing
• always-on
• attach
• attachment
• back someone up phrasal verb
• drop-down menu
• dump
• keyboard shortcut
• keystroke
• left-click
• live streamer
• logoff
• parallel
• UI
• uncap
• uncapped
• uncheck
• uncompressed

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click verb (MAKE SOUND)

C2 [ I or T ] to make a short, sharp sound, or to make something do this: The door clicked shut behind her. Can you hear that strange clicking noise?click your fingers UK Paul clicked his fingers (= moved his thumb against his middle finger to make a short sharp sound) to attract the waiter's attention.click your heels Soldiers click their heels (= bring them sharply together) when they stand to attention. to close

• closeCan you close the door behind you?
• shutI shut the door so the cat couldn't get out.
• snap shutHe snapped his briefcase shut and walked out of the office.
• click shutThe door clicked shut.
• slamPlease don't slam the door.

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• auditory feedback
• bang around phrasal verb
• bleep
• boop
• chuff
• clack
• clap
• clap along
• crashing
• patter
• peal
• rumble
• soughing
• spit
• susurration
• susurrus
• thrum
• thunk
• ting-a-ling
• whisper

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click verb (LIKE SB/STH)

[ I ] informal to like and understand someone, especially the first time you meet: click with He didn't really click with his new boss. Liz and I really clicked the first time we met. I met her at school and we just clicked. C2 [ I ] informal to be liked by someone: click with The new daytime soap opera has yet to show signs that it's clicking with the television audience. Being friends & getting to know them

• be on speaking terms idiom
• be/get in with someone idiom
• be/live in each other's pockets idiom
• befriend
• bonding
• friendliness
• friendly with someone
• gadabout
• get along phrasal verb
• get along with someone
• mingle
• mirror
• mirroring
• Mitteleuropa
• pal
• pocket
• shell
• speak
• strike
• tight

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Liked, or not liked, by many people

click verb (BECOME CLEAR)

C2 [ I ] informal to be understood, or become clear suddenly: Suddenly everything clicked and I realized where I'd met him. [ + question word ] As he talked about his schooldays, it suddenly clicked where I had met him before. [ + that ] So it's finally clicked that you're going to have to get yourself a job, has it?click into place In the last act of the play, everything clicks into place. Understanding and comprehending

• appreciation for something
• apprehend
• apprehensible
• apprehension
• astutely
• catch
• colour
• handle
• I feel you idiom
• incoherently
• keenness
• keep someone up phrasal verb
• know a hawk from a handsaw idiom
• take something on board idiom
• taken
• tape
• tease
• tease something apart phrasal verb
• to get a handle on something idiom
• tune

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Phrasal verbs

click away click out clicknoun [ C ] uk /klɪk/ us /klɪk/

click noun [C] (SOUND)

a short, sharp sound: click of The soldier gave a click of his heels as he saluted. phonetics   specialized (also click consonant) a speech sound made by sucking air quickly into the mouth, but not into the lungs, using the tongue or lips : Clicks are found in several southern African languages. Sounds made by objects, movement or impact

• auditory feedback
• bang around phrasal verb
• bleep
• boop
• chuff
• clack
• clap
• clap along
• crashing
• patter
• peal
• rumble
• soughing
• spit
• susurration
• susurrus
• thrum
• thunk
• ting-a-ling
• whisper

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Linguistics: phonology & phonetics

click noun [C] (COMPUTER OPERATION)

A2 the act of pressing a button on the mouse (= small control device) of a computer to operate it  (just) a click away If something is (just) a click away, it is very easy to get on your computer, especially from the Internet: All the library's reference materials are now just a click away. See more Operating computers

• admin
• administrator
• aliasing
• always-on
• attach
• attachment
• back someone up phrasal verb
• drop-down menu
• dump
• keyboard shortcut
• keystroke
• left-click
• live streamer
• logoff
• parallel
• UI
• uncap
• uncapped
• uncheck
• uncompressed

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Idiom

clicks and mortar (Definition of click from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

click | American Dictionary

clicknoun [ C ] us /klɪk/

click noun [C] (SOUND)

Add to word list Add to word list a short sound made when when one object hits or is fastened to another: You’ll know your seat belt is fastened properly when you hear a click. clickverb us /klɪk/

click verb (BECOME FRIENDLY)

[ I ] infml to become friendly or be successful: Liz and I really clicked, from the first time we met. The show never really clicked.

click verb (BECOME CLEAR)

[ I ] infml to be understood or become clear suddenly: Something clicked, and I remembered where I’d seen her before.

click verb (MAKE SOUND)

[ I/T ] to make a short sound when one object hits or is fastened to another: [ I ] As the door clicked shut behind her, she realized she’d forgotten her key. (Definition of click from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

click | Business English

clickverb uk /klɪk/ us Add to word list Add to word list [ I or T ]   IT to choose something on a computer screen, or make the computer do something, by pressing a button on the mouse (= small object for controlling a computer): click on sth If you want to open a file, click on the filename. When you have selected the image you want, click 'View'.

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double-click clicknoun [ C ] uk /klɪk/ us IT the action of pressing a button on a computer mouse: On the web, cheaper prices are only one click away. In this technological age, trading can take place more cheaply and faster at the click of a mouse. (Definition of click from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of click

click Candidates for such fully specified segments (segments with a narrow phase window) are multiply articulated stops, ejectives, implosives, clicks and other ' multigesture ' segments. From the Cambridge English Corpus Restricted phonological behaviour is also a feature of clicks in diachronic phonology. From the Cambridge English Corpus The analysis of laryngeals and clicks, which form the two opposite poles of the underspecification spectrum, points to the validity of our linguistic hypothesis. From the Cambridge English Corpus The buttons remained inactive until the second stimulus had finished playing ; thereafter, clicking either button initiated the next trial. From the Cambridge English Corpus Each cicada either sings, chirps, clicks, or is silent depending on its environment and the weather conditions which are modelled by reaction-diffusion patterns. From the Cambridge English Corpus Only in browsing do entanglements of loose elements to fixed couplings still work if differences are made: the musician watches and clicks. From the Cambridge English Corpus Participants indicated whether they believed each item to be a word or a nonword by clicking on an appropriately labeled button on the screen. From the Cambridge English Corpus Concepts can be generated flexibly by double clicking on means in the tree view; the selected means will then be displayed with a red border. From the Cambridge English Corpus We show the expected time between clicks of the ratchet for different values of the selection coefficients. From the Cambridge English Corpus We observed that fixation events follow clicks of the ratchet, as previously thought. From the Cambridge English Corpus As p reaches 1/60 the time between clicks of the ratchet increases for all parameter combinations, except for very low values of s (

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• English   
  • Verb 
    • click (OPERATE COMPUTER)
    • click (MAKE SOUND)
    • click (LIKE SB/STH)
    • click (BECOME CLEAR)
  • Noun 
    • click (SOUND)
    • click (COMPUTER OPERATION)
    • (just) a click away
• American   
  • Noun 
    • click (SOUND)
  • Verb 
    • click (BECOME FRIENDLY)
    • click (BECOME CLEAR)
    • click (MAKE SOUND)
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