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The Meaning of click
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(v. i.) To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
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(v. t.) To move with the sound of a click.
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(v. t.) To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
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(n.) A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
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(n.) 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.
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(v. t.) To snatch.
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(n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
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(n.) The latch of a door.
Synonyms
clink
,
mouse click
,
jailhouse
,
pokey
,
chink
,
dog
,
poky
,
pawl
,
jail
,
slammer
,
suction stop
,
detent
,
gaol
,
heel
,
wienerwurst
,
hound
,
weenie
,
frank
,
frankfurter
,
hotdog
,
cad
,
bounder
,
wiener
,
frump
,
firedog
,
hot dog
,
blackguard
,
dog-iron
,
domestic dog
,
andiron
,
snatch up
,
sink in
,
shoot
,
dawn
,
tear
,
flick
,
tick
,
break down
,
come home
,
crack
,
snarl
,
penetrate
,
photograph
,
chatter
,
get through
,
lose it
,
snap
,
bust
,
fall into place
,
cluck
,
snatch
,
get across
,
rupture
,
clack
,
beat
,
mark
,
check
,
check off
,
ticktack
,
retick
,
tick off
,
mark off
,
ticktock
,
chitchat
,
shoot the breeze
,
twaddle
,
gossip
,
prattle
,
palaver
,
jaw
,
chit-chat
,
claver
,
tittle-tattle
,
maunder
,
chew the fat
,
tattle
,
visit
,
confab
,
gibber
,
blab
,
natter
,
piffle
,
confabulate
,
prate
,
chat
,
chaffer
,
gabble
,
blabber
,
thumb
,
ruffle
,
flip
,
flicker
,
riffle
,
riff
,
leaf
,
jerk
,
brattle
,
clatter
,
pass over
,
put over
,
get over
,
wrap up
,
come through
,
percolate
,
contact
,
pervade
,
cut across
,
infiltrate
,
bottom
,
finish up
,
reach
,
interpenetrate
,
permeate
,
get hold of
,
finish off
,
polish off
,
cut through
,
mop up
,
filter
,
while away
,
perforate
,
traverse
,
diffuse
,
clear up
,
cover
,
cross
,
riddle
,
fathom
,
imbue
,
track
,
move
Rhymes
afflik
,
arithmetic
,
bailiwick
,
bic
,
bick
,
blick
,
bolshevik
,
bric
,
brick
,
broomstick
,
bryk
,
candlestick
,
chick
,
chopstick
,
crick
,
cwik
,
dic
,
dick
,
dipstick
,
dyk
,
dzik
,
fenwick
,
fick
,
ficke
,
firebrick
,
flick
,
frick
,
fricke
,
gick
,
glick
,
handpick
,
hick
,
homesick
,
impolitic
,
joystick
,
kick
,
knick
,
krick
,
kubrick
,
kwik
,
lick
,
lipstick
,
lunatic
,
mc
,
mic
,
mick
,
micke
,
nic
,
nick
,
nightstick
,
nik
,
nonstick
,
ostpolitik
,
pic
,
pick
,
pickwick
,
picnic
,
pik
,
politic
,
prick
,
quick
,
quik
,
realpolitik
,
ric
,
rick
,
ricke
,
rilke
,
schick
,
schlick
,
schrick
,
schtick
,
seasick
,
shick
,
shtick
,
sic
,
sick
,
sidekick
,
slapstick
,
slick
,
smick
,
snick
,
spic
,
spick
,
stick
,
strick
,
swick
,
thick
,
tic
,
tick
,
toothpick
,
trick
,
vandyck
,
vanwyck
,
vanwyk
,
vic
,
vick
,
vik
,
wick
,
wik
,
wrick
,
wyk
,
yardstick
,
zick
,
zwick