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CLICK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Depression of a button on a computer mouse
Example:
a click on the right button for example
Synonyms:
click; mouse click
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("click" is a kind of...):
depression (pushing down)
Derivation:
click (move or strike with a noise)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("click" is a kind of...):
catch; stop (a restraint that checks the motion of something)
Holonyms ("click" is a part of...):
rachet; ratch; ratchet (mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)
Synonyms:
click; suction stop
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("click" is a kind of...):
occlusive; plosive; plosive consonant; plosive speech sound; stop; stop consonant (a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it)
Derivation:
click (produce a click)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A short light metallic sound
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("click" is a kind of...):
sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)
Derivation:
click (move or strike with a noise)
click (make a clicking or ticking sound)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they click ... he / she / it clicks
Past simple: clicked
Past participle: clicked
-ing form: clicking
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
Example:
she was penetrated with sorrow
Synonyms:
click; come home; dawn; fall into place; get across; get through; penetrate; sink in
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Cause:
understand (know and comprehend the nature or meaning of)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "click" is one way to...):
emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Produce a click
Example:
Xhosa speakers click
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "click" is one way to...):
articulate; enounce; enunciate; pronounce; say; sound out (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
click (a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu))
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cause to make a snapping sound
Example:
snap your fingers
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "click" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Move or strike with a noise
Example:
his arm was snapped forward
Synonyms:
click; snap
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "click" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
click (depression of a button on a computer mouse)
click (a short light metallic sound)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Make a clicking or ticking sound
Example:
The clock ticked away
Synonyms:
click; tick
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "click" is one way to...):
go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
click (a short light metallic sound)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Click repeatedly or uncontrollably
Example:
Chattering teeth
Synonyms:
chatter; click
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "click" is one way to...):
go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
He had the chain in his right claw and the shoes in his left, and he flew right away to a mill, and the mill went “Click clack, click clack, click clack.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
It was a strange clicking noise in the distance not unlike castanets.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I stood in a window, and looked across the ancient street at the opposite houses, recalling how I had watched them on wet afternoons, when I first came there; and how I had used to speculate about the people who appeared at any of the windows, and had followed them with my eyes up and down stairs, while women went clicking along the pavement in pattens, and the dull rain fell in slanting lines, and poured out of the water-spout yonder, and flowed into the road.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This scene was as silent as if all the figures had been shadows and the firelit apartment a picture: so hushed was it, I could hear the cinders fall from the grate, the clock tick in its obscure corner; and I even fancied I could distinguish the click-click of the woman's knitting-needles.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Chances are, you have something in your natal chart that clicked with that December 25 eclipse.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
There was the click of the closing handcuffs.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Finally I heard a click, the broad green door swung open, and inside I had a glimpse of a number of paper packets, each tied, sealed, and inscribed.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Ghouls and harpies!" Brissenden snapped out with clicking teeth.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Inside the mill were twenty of the miller’s men hewing a stone, and as they went “Hick hack, hick hack, hick hack,” the mill went “Click clack, click clack, click clack.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The woods seemed to be full of the ape-men; again and again we heard their curious clicking chatter.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
