Word Direct Answers

What does "click" mean?

Click: To more with the sound of a click. She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash. Thackeray.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something. [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs. Ben Jonson. When merry milkmaids click the latch. Tennyson.
  2. 3.A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
  3. 4.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.
  4. 5.To snatch. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
  5. 6.A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
  6. 7.The latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

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