click.html - intransitive or transitive verb (Science and Technology) In computing, to press one of the buttons on a mouse; to select (an item represented on-screen, a particular function, etc.) by so doing. Etymology: Click, like zap , began as an onomatopoeic word for any of various small 'mechanical' sounds, such as finger-snaps or the cocking of a gun. The same word was also used as a verb, meaning either 'to make, or cause to make, this sound' or (a later development) 'to operate (a device which clicks)'. The mouse is simply the latest in a succession of possible objects for this later transitive sense . Prodigy uses the mouse extensively...In place of a GEM double click, you have to click both buttons. Music Technology Apr. 1990, p.
36 It allows you to browse until you find the file you're looking for, and, assuming you're in 'recover' mode, click on its name to request the server to deliver it back to your client at the desktop. UnixWorld Jan. 1991, p. 54

click.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a slight sharp sound as of a switch being operated.
2 a sharp non-vocal suction, used as a speech-sound in some languages.
3 a catch in machinery acting with a slight sharp sound.
4 (of a horse) an action causing a hind foot to touch the shoe of a fore foot.

--v.

1 a intr. make a click. b tr. cause (one's tongue, heels, etc.) to click.
2 intr. colloq. a become clear or understandable (often prec. by it as subject : when I saw them it all clicked). b be successful, secure one's object. c (foll. by with) become friendly, esp. with a person of the opposite sex. d come to an agreement.

click beetle any of a family of beetles (Elateridae) that make a click in recovering from being overturned.

clicker n. [imit.: cf. Du. klikken, F cliquer]

click.html - intransitive or transitive verb (Science and Technology) In computing, to press one of the buttons on a mouse; to select (an item represented on-screen, a particular function, etc.) by so doing. Etymology: Click, like zap , began as an onomatopoeic word for any of various small 'mechanical' sounds, such as finger-snaps or the cocking of a gun. The same word was also used as a verb, meaning either 'to make, or cause to make, this sound' or (a later development) 'to operate (a device which clicks)'. The mouse is simply the latest in a succession of possible objects for this later transitive sense . Prodigy uses the mouse extensively...In place of a GEM double click, you have to click both buttons. Music Technology Apr. 1990, p.
36 It allows you to browse until you find the file you're looking for, and, assuming you're in 'recover' mode, click on its name to request the server to deliver it back to your client at the desktop. UnixWorld Jan. 1991, p. 54

click.html - n.
1 a hackneyed phrase or opinion.
2 Brit. a metal casting of a stereotype or electrotype. [F f. clicher to stereotype]

click.html - adj.
(also clich÷'d) hackneyed; full of clich

s.

click.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a slight sharp sound as of a switch being operated.
2 a sharp non-vocal suction, used as a speech-sound in some languages.
3 a catch in machinery acting with a slight sharp sound.
4 (of a horse) an action causing a hind foot to touch the shoe of a fore foot.

--v.

1 a intr. make a click. b tr. cause (one's tongue, heels, etc.) to click.
2 intr. colloq. a become clear or understandable (often prec. by it as subject : when I saw them it all clicked). b be successful, secure one's object. c (foll. by with) become friendly, esp. with a person of the opposite sex. d come to an agreement.

click beetle any of a family of beetles (Elateridae) that make a click in recovering from being overturned.

clicker n. [imit.: cf. Du. klikken, F cliquer]