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Click vs. Cluck — What's the Difference?

Click vs. Cluck — What's the Difference?

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Click

A short, sharp sound as of a switch being operated or of two hard objects coming smartly into contact
She heard the click of the door

Cluck

The characteristic sound made by a hen when brooding or calling its chicks.

Click

Make or cause to make a short, sharp sound as of a switch being operated or of two hard objects coming smartly into contact
Martha clicked her tongue
She clicked off the light
The key clicked in the lock and the door opened

Cluck

A sound similar to this.

Click

Become suddenly clear or understandable
I wasn't used to such good treatment, then it clicked: we were wearing suits
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Cluck

(Informal) A stupid or foolish person.

Click

A brief, sharp sound
The click of a door latch.

Cluck

To utter the characteristic sound of a hen.

Click

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

Cluck

To make a sound similar to that of a hen, as in coaxing a horse.

Click

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

Cluck

To call by making the characteristic sound of a hen or a similar sound.

Click

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

Cluck

To express by clucking
He clucked disapproval.

Click

(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.

Cluck

The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

Click

To produce a click or series of clicks.

Cluck

Any sound similar to this.

Click

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

Cluck

A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.

Click

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

Cluck

(intransitive) To make such a sound.

Click

To have good social or working relations; hit it off
The director and producer clicked at the very start of the play.

Cluck

(transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
My mother clucked her tongue in disapproval.

Click

To become clear; fall into place
The answer finally clicked, and I finished the crossword.

Cluck

To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

Click

To be a great success
The play clicked on Broadway.

Cluck

To suffer withdrawal from heroin.

Click

To cause to click, as by striking together
Clicked his heels.

Cluck

To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.

Click

To press down and release (a button on an input device)
Clicked the left button on the mouse.

Cluck

To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
She, poor hen, fond of no second brood,Has clucked three to the wars.

Click

To press down and release a button on (an input device)
Clicked the mouse.

Cluck

The call of a hen to her chickens.

Click

To select (an item in a webpage or app) by clicking or tapping a mouse, touchscreen, or other input device
To open the file, click the icon.

Cluck

A click. See 3d Click, 2.

Click

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.

Cluck

The sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks)

Click

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

Cluck

Make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

Click

(phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
Tsk is a click in English.

Click

Sound made by a dolphin.

Click

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

Click

(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.

Click

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

Click

A pawl or similar catch.

Click

A knock or blow.

Click

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

Click

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

Click

The latch of a door.

Click

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

Click

(intransitive) To emit a click.

Click

(British) To snap the fingers.

Click

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

Click

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

Click

To visit (a web site).
Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.

Click

To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.
From the home page, click through to the Products section.

Click

(intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
Then it clicked—I had been going the wrong way all that time.

Click

(intransitive) To get along well.
When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.

Click

To tick.

Click

To take (a photograph) with a camera.

Click

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

Click

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

Click

(obsolete) To snatch.

Click

(US) clique

Click

The sound of a click.
Click! The door opened.

Click

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door.

Click

To move with the sound of a click.
She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash.

Click

To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
[Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.
When merry milkmaids click the latch.

Click

To snatch.

Click

A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.

Click

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.

Click

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

Click

The latch of a door.

Click

A short light metallic sound

Click

Depression of a button on a computer mouse;
A click on the right button for example

Click

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

Click

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

Click

Move or strike with a noise;
He clicked on the light
His arm was snapped forward

Click

Make a clicking or ticking sound;
The clock ticked away

Click

Click repeatedly or uncontrollably;
Chattering teeth

Click

Cause to make a snapping sound;
Snap your fingers

Click

Produce a click;
Xhosa speakers click

Click

Make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens

Click

Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions;
It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
She was penetrated with sorrow

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