click

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
发音 klĭk

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative spelling of klick (“kilometers; kilometers per hour”). alt-of,alternative
  2. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
  3. A kind of throw.
    — inside click; outside click; cross click
  4. Misspelling of clique. US,alt-of,misspelling
  5. A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
    — As I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened.
  6. The act of snapping one's fingers. UK
  7. The latch of a door. UK,dialectal
  8. An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
    — tsk is a click in English.
  9. The sound made by a dolphin.
  10. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
  11. The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
  12. A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed. broadly
    — The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
  13. A pawl or similar catch.
    — A wheel, with teeth in which a click or pawl engages to prevent backward motion; or the same with addition of another click through which power is imparted at intervals to move the wheel.
  14. A knock or blow. UK,obsolete,slang
    — This roused the tinker's choler, already provoked at Tugwell's amorous freedom with his doxy, and he gave him a click in the mazard. Tugwell had not been used tamely to receive a kick or a cuff; he, therefore, gave the tinker a rejoinder, […]
  15. A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
  16. A click track. informal
    — But I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track, which then was synced to the Moog Modular.
动词 v.
  1. To snatch. obsolete
    — ‘I take 'em to prevent abuses,’ Cants he, and then the Crucifix And Chalice from the Altar clicks.
  2. Misspelling of clique. US,alt-of,misspelling
  3. To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click. transitive
    — [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.
  4. To emit a click. intransitive
    — Surely that picture will be fixed for ever, for I heard the cameras clicking round me like crickets in a field.
  5. To snap one's fingers. UK
  6. To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
  7. To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button. transitive
  8. To visit (a website). transitive
    — Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.
  9. To navigate by clicking a mouse button. intransitive
    — I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.
  10. To make sense suddenly. intransitive
    — Then it clicked—I had been going the wrong way all that time.
  11. To get along well. intransitive
    — When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
  12. To tick. dated,intransitive
    — the varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door
  13. To take (a photograph) with a camera. India,transitive
    — Brad immediately took out his Iphone^([sic]) and clicked a picture of the plant and posted it up on Google and clicked search.
  14. To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time. India,intransitive
  15. Of a film, to be successful at the box office. India,intransitive
感叹词 intj.
  1. The sound of a click.
    — Click! The door opened.

词形变化

clicks plural clicks present,singular,third-person clicking participle,present clicked participle,past clicked past clicks plural clicks plural clicks present,singular,third-person clicking participle,present clicked participle,past clicked past clicks plural

词源

词源 1
Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s. Compare Saterland Frisian klikke (“to click”), Middle Dutch clicken (Modern Dutch: klikken (“to click”)), Old High German klecchen (Modern German: klecken, klicken (“to click”)), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”), Norwegian klikke (“to click”), Norwegian klekke (“to hatch”).
词源 2
From Middle English clike, from Old French clique (“latch”).
词源 3
From Middle English cleken, a variant of clechen (“to grab”), perhaps from Old English *clēċan, *clǣċan, a byform of clyċċan (“to clutch”). More at clutch.
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