click

click is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
2. transitive verb. To move with the sound of a click.
3. transitive verb. To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
4. noun. A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
5. noun. 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.
6. transitive verb. To snatch.
7. noun. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
8. noun. The latch of a door.
9. noun. depression of a button on a computer mouse

   "a click on the right button for example"

10. noun. a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward

    Synonyms: detent, dog, pawl

11. noun. a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)
12. noun. a short light metallic sound

    Synonyms: chink, clink

13. verb. become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

    "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"

    "she was penetrated with sorrow"

    Synonyms: dawn, penetrate

14. verb. make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

    Synonyms: clack, cluck

15. verb. produce a click

    "Xhosa speakers click"

16. verb. cause to make a snapping sound

    "snap your fingers"

    Synonyms: flick, snap

17. verb. move or strike with a noise

    "he clicked on the light"

    "his arm was snapped forward"

    Synonyms: snap

18. verb. make a clicking or ticking sound

    "The clock ticked away"

    Synonyms: tick

19. verb. click repeatedly or uncontrollably

    "Chattering teeth"

    Synonyms: chatter

Synonyms

detent, dog, pawl, chink, clink, dawn, penetrate, clack, cluck, flick, snap, tick, chatter

Common word forms

clicks, clicked, clicker, clicking, clickless

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