click
Speech parts
1. click - Noun
2. click - Verb
3. click - Interjection
4. Click - Proper noun
Meaning
To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
To move with the sound of a click.
To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
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.
To snatch.
A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
The latch of a door.
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I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I Agree'.
Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.
I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.
On the belly there is silk, but in the belly - just a click.