Click vs. Clicking — What's the Difference?

A short, sharp sound as of a switch being operated or of two hard objects coming smartly into contact

A brief, sharp sound

Make or cause to make a short, sharp sound as of a switch being operated or of two hard objects coming smartly into contact

A mechanical device, such as a pawl, that snaps into position.

Become suddenly clear or understandable

An instance of pressing down and releasing a button on a mouse or other input device.

A brief, sharp sound

An instance of selecting an item in a website or app by clicking or tapping on a mouse, touchscreen, or other input device.

A mechanical device, such as a pawl, that snaps into position.

(Linguistics) Any of various implosive stops, such as that of English tsk, produced by raising the back of the tongue to make contact with the palate and simultaneously closing the lips or touching the teeth or alveolar ridge with the tip and sides of the tongue, and found as phonemic consonants especially in the languages of the Khoikhoi and the San, and in some Bantu languages. Also called suction stop. See Usage Note at !Kung.

An instance of pressing down and releasing a button on a mouse or other input device.

To produce a click or series of clicks.

An instance of selecting an item in a website or app by clicking or tapping on a mouse, touchscreen, or other input device.

To press and release a button on a mouse or other input device.

(Linguistics) Any of various implosive stops, such as that of English tsk, produced by raising the back of the tongue to make contact with the palate and simultaneously closing the lips or touching the teeth or alveolar ridge with the tip and sides of the tongue, and found as phonemic consonants especially in the languages of the Khoikhoi and the San, and in some Bantu languages. Also called suction stop. See Usage Note at !Kung.

To select an item in a webpage or app by clicking or tapping a mouse, touchscreen, or other input device.

To produce a click or series of clicks.

To have good social or working relations; hit it off

To press and release a button on a mouse or other input device.

To become clear; fall into place

To select an item in a webpage or app by clicking or tapping a mouse, touchscreen, or other input device.

To be a great success

To have good social or working relations; hit it off

To cause to click, as by striking together

To become clear; fall into place

To press down and release (a button on an input device)

To be a great success

To press down and release a button on (an input device)

To cause to click, as by striking together

To select (an item in a webpage or app) by clicking or tapping a mouse, touchscreen, or other input device

To press down and release (a button on an input device)

The sound or action of a click.

To press down and release a button on (an input device)

Present participle of click

To select (an item in a webpage or app) by clicking or tapping a mouse, touchscreen, or other input device

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.

(British) The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.

(phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.

Sound made by a dolphin.

The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.

(GUI) 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.

(by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.

A pawl or similar catch.

A knock or blow.

A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.

A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.

The latch of a door.

(transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.

(intransitive) To emit a click.

(British) To snap the fingers.

(computing) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).

To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.

To visit (a web site).

To navigate by clicking a mouse button.

(intransitive) To make sense suddenly.

(intransitive) To get along well.

To tick.

To take (a photograph) with a camera.

To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.

Of a film, to be successful at the box office.

(obsolete) To snatch.

(US) clique

The sound of a click.

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.

To snatch.

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.

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.

A short light metallic sound

Depression of a button on a computer mouse;

A stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)

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

Move or strike with a noise;

Make a clicking or ticking sound;

Click repeatedly or uncontrollably;

Cause to make a snapping sound;

Produce a click;

Make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions;