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What's The Definition Of Click?

\Click\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Clicked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clicking}.] [Prob. an onomatopoetic word: cf. OF. cliquier. {See Clack}, and cf. {Clink}, {Clique}.] To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick. The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. --Goldsmith.
\Click\, v. t. 1. To move with the sound of a click. She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash. --Thackeray. 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.
\Click\, n. 1. A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol. 2. 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.
\Click\, v. t. [OE. kleken, clichen. Cf. {Clutch}.] To snatch. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
\Click\, n. [Cf. 4th {Click}, and OF. clique latch.] 1. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of {Ratched wheel}. 2. The latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]