click 1
— clickless , adj.
/klik/ , n.
1. a slight, sharp sound: At the click of the latch, the dog barked.
2. a small device for preventing backward movement of a mechanism, as a detent or pawl.
3. Phonet. any one of a variety of ingressive, usually implosive, speech sounds, phonemic in some languages, produced by suction occlusion and plosive or affricative release.
4. any one of a variety of familiar sounds used in calling or urging on horses or other animals, in expressing reprimand or sympathy, or produced in audible kissing.
v.i.
5. to emit or make a slight, sharp sound, or series of such sounds, as by the cocking of a pistol: The door clicked shut.
6. Informal.
a. to succeed; make a hit: If the play clicks, the producer will be rich.
b. to fit together; function well together: They get along in public, but their personalities don't really click.
c. to become intelligible.
7. Computers. to depress and release a mouse button rapidly, as to select an icon.
v.t.
8. to cause to click.
9. to strike together with a click: He clicked his heels and saluted.
[ 1575-85; perh. imit., but perh. klick (n.), klikken (v.) ]
click 2
/klik/ , n. Slang.
a kilometer.
Also, klick, klik .
[ ‡1970-75; prob. special use of CLICK 1 , but sense development unclear ]