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cliché |
cliche |
cliched |
clichy |
clichy-la-garenne |
Click
| click beetle
| click off
| click open
| click-clack
| clicker
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Click
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Click has 4 senses
- click(n = noun.event) chink, clink - a short light metallic sound; Array is a kind of sound
- click(n = noun.communication) suction stop - a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu); Array is a kind of occlusive, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop, stop consonant
- click(n = noun.artifact) detent, dog, pawl - a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward; Array is a kind of catch, stop
- click(n = noun.act) mouse click - depression of a button on a computer mouse; "a click on the right button for example" is a kind of depression
Derived forms verb click1, verb click2
Derived form verb click5
is a part of rachet, ratch, ratchet
Derived form verb click1
Verb Click has 7 senses
- click(v = verb.motion) snap - move or strike with a noise; "he clicked on the light"; "his arm was snapped forward" is one way to move
- click(v = verb.perception) tick - make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away" is one way to go, sound
- click(v = verb.perception) chatter - click repeatedly or uncontrollably; "Chattering teeth" is one way to go, sound
- click(v = verb.contact) flick, snap - cause to make a snapping sound; "snap your fingers" is one way to move
- click(v = verb.communication) Array - produce a click; "Xhosa speakers click" is one way to articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out
- click(v = verb.communication) clack, cluck - make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens; Array is one way to emit, let loose, let out, utter
- click(v = verb.cognition) come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in - become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" Sample sentence:
Derived forms noun click4, noun click1
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun click1
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
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Derived form noun click2
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CIDE DICTIONARY
To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick. [1913 Webster]
"The varnished clock that clicked behind the door."
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Click, v. t.
- To move with the sound of a click. [1913 Webster]"She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash." [1913 Webster]
- To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something. [1913 Webster]"[Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs." [1913 Webster]"When merry milkmaids click the latch." [1913 Webster]
Click, n.
- A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol. [1913 Webster]
- A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward. [1913 Webster]
Click, v. t. [OE. kleken, clichen. Cf. Clutch.].
To snatch. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
Click, n. [Cf. 4th Click, and OF. clique latch.].
- A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel. [1913 Webster]
- The latch of a door. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Click, 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.
--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.
Idiom
click beetle any of a family of beetles (Elateridae) that make a click in recovering from being overturned.
Derivative
clicker n.
Etymology
imit.: cf. Du. klikken, F cliquer
THESAURUS
Click
be blooded, be successful, bump, catch on, chink, clack, clink, clop, clump, clunk, come off, connect, crack, cracking, crackle, crackling, crepitate, crepitation, crump, decrepitate, decrepitation, dull thud, farewell, flick, flump, go, go great guns, go off, go over, go over big, go to town, graduate, make a hit, meet with success, pad, pan out, pass, pat, patter, pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, pop, prevail, prosper, prove out, qualify, rap, sizzling, snap, snapping, spit, spitting, succeed, take, tap, thud, thump, tick, tinkle, tunk, work well, work wondersROGET THESAURUS
Click
Snap
VB rap, snap, tap, knock, ping, click, clash, crack, crackle, crash, pop, slam, bang, blast, boom, clap, clang, clack, whack, wham, brustle, burst on the ear, crepitate, rump, blow up, blow, detonate.
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