Click vs. Hit — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Click and Hit
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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
Hit
To come into contact with forcefully; strike
The car hit the guardrail.
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
Hit
To cause to come into contact
She hit her hand against the wall.
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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Hit
To deal a blow to
He hit the punching bag.
Click
A brief, sharp sound
The click of a door latch.
Hit
To cause an implement or missile to come forcefully into contact with
Hit the nail with a hammer.
Click
A mechanical device, such as a pawl, that snaps into position.
Hit
To press or push (a key or button, for example)
Hit the return key by mistake.
Click
An instance of pressing down and releasing a button on a mouse or other input device.
Hit
To reach with a propelled ball or puck
Hit the running back with a pass.
Click
An instance of selecting an item in a website or app by clicking or tapping on a mouse, touchscreen, or other input device.
Hit
To score in this way
She hit the winning basket.
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.
Hit
To perform (a shot or maneuver) successfully
Couldn't hit the jump shot.
Click
To produce a click or series of clicks.
Hit
To propel with a stroke or blow
Hit the ball onto the green.
Click
To press and release a button on a mouse or other input device.
Hit
To execute (a base hit) successfully
Hit a single.
Click
To select an item in a webpage or app by clicking or tapping a mouse, touchscreen, or other input device.
Hit
To bat against (a pitcher or kind of pitch) successfully
Can't hit a slider.
Click
To have good social or working relations; hit it off
The director and producer clicked at the very start of the play.
Hit
To affect, especially adversely
The company was hit hard by the recession. Influenza hit the elderly the hardest.
Click
To become clear; fall into place
The answer finally clicked, and I finished the crossword.
Hit
To be affected by (a negative development)
Their marriage hit a bad patch.
Click
To be a great success
The play clicked on Broadway.
Hit
To win (a prize, for example), especially in a lottery.
Click
To cause to click, as by striking together
Clicked his heels.
Hit
To arise suddenly in the mind of; occur to
It finally hit him that she might be his long-lost sister.
Click
To press down and release (a button on an input device)
Clicked the left button on the mouse.
Hit
(Informal) To go to or arrive at
We hit the beach early.
Click
To press down and release a button on (an input device)
Clicked the mouse.
Hit
(Informal) To attain or reach
Monthly sales hit a new high. She hit 40 on her last birthday.
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.
Hit
To produce or represent accurately
Trying to hit the right note.
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.
Hit
(Games) To deal cards to.
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.
Hit
(Sports) To bite on or take (bait or a lure). Used of a fish.
Click
(phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
Tsk is a click in English.
Hit
To strike or deal a blow.
Click
Sound made by a dolphin.
Hit
To come into contact with something; collide.
Click
The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
Hit
To attack
The raiders hit at dawn.
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.
Hit
To happen or occur
The storm hit without warning.
Click
(by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
Hit
To achieve or find something desired or sought
Finally hit on the answer.
Hit upon a solution to the problem.
Click
A pawl or similar catch.
Hit
(Baseball) To bat or bat well
Their slugger hasn't been hitting lately.
Click
A knock or blow.
Hit
(Sports) To score by shooting, especially in basketball
Hit on 7 of 8 shots.
Click
A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
Hit
To ignite a mixture of air and fuel in the cylinders. Used of an internal-combustion engine.
Click
A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
Hit
A collision or impact.
Click
The latch of a door.
Hit
A successfully executed shot, blow, thrust, or throw.
Click
(transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
Hit
(Sports) A deliberate collision with an opponent, such as a body check in ice hockey.
Click
(intransitive) To emit a click.
Hit
A successful or popular venture
A Broadway hit.
Click
(British) To snap the fingers.
Hit
A match of data in a search string against data that one is searching.
Click
(computing) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
Hit
A connection made to a website over the internet or another network
Our company's website gets about 250,000 hits daily.
Click
To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
Hit
An apt or effective remark.
Click
To visit (a web site).
Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.
Hit
Abbr. H(Baseball) A base hit.
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.
Hit
A dose of a narcotic drug.
Click
(intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
Then it clicked—I had been going the wrong way all that time.
Hit
A puff of a cigarette or a pipe.
Click
(intransitive) To get along well.
When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
Hit
(Slang) A murder planned and carried out usually by a member of an underworld syndicate.
Click
To tick.
Hit
To strike.
Click
To take (a photograph) with a camera.
Hit
(transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
One boy hit the other.
Click
To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
Hit
(transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
The ball hit the fence.
Click
Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
Hit
(intransitive) To strike against something.
Click
(obsolete) To snatch.
Hit
(transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
Hit the Enter key to continue.
Click
(US) clique
Hit
To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
Click
The sound of a click.
Click! The door opened.
Hit
To attack, especially amphibiously.
If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.
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.
Hit
To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
Their coffee really hits the spot.
I used to listen to that song all the time, but it hits different(ly) now.
Click
To move with the sound of a click.
She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash.
Hit
To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
I hit the jackpot.
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.
Hit
To switch on.
Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!
Click
To snatch.
Hit
To briefly visit.
We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
Click
A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
Hit
To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
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.
Hit
(heading) To attain, to achieve.
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.
Hit
To reach or achieve.
The movie hits theaters in December.
The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.
We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.
Click
The latch of a door.
Hit
(intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
Click
A short light metallic sound
Hit
To guess; to light upon or discover.
Click
Depression of a button on a computer mouse;
A click on the right button for example
Hit
(transitive) To affect negatively.
The economy was hit by a recession.
The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.
Click
A stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)
Hit
(metaphorically) To attack.
Click
A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward
Hit
To make a play.
Click
Move or strike with a noise;
He clicked on the light
His arm was snapped forward
Hit
In blackjack, to deal a card to.
Hit me.
Click
Make a clicking or ticking sound;
The clock ticked away
Hit
To come up to bat.
Jones hit for the pitcher.
Click
Click repeatedly or uncontrollably;
Chattering teeth
Hit
(backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
Click
Cause to make a snapping sound;
Snap your fingers
Hit
To use; to connect to.
The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
Click
Produce a click;
Xhosa speakers click
Hit
To have sex with.
I'd hit that!
Click
Make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens
Hit
To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
Click
Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions;
It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
She was penetrated with sorrow
Hit
(of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
This is another great exercise which hits the long head.
Hit
To work out
With that said, the group hitting their legs just once a week still made gains.
Hit
A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
The hit was very slight.
Hit
Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
Hit
An attack on a location, person or people.
Hit
A collision of a projectile with the target.
Hit
In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
Hit
A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
Hit
(Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.
Hit
An approximately correct answer in a test set.
Hit
(baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.
Hit
(colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
Where am I going to get my next hit?
Hit
A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
Hit
(dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
A happy hit
Hit
(backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
Hit
(backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
Hit
Very successful.
The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.
Hit
(dialectal) It.
Hit
It.
Hit
To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
I think you have hit the mark.
Hit
To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.
Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right.
There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails with him.
Whose saintly visage is too brightTo hit the sense of human sight.
He scarcely hit my humor.
Hit
To guess; to light upon or discover.
Hit
To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; - said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
Hit
To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; - followed by against or on.
If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another?
Corpuscles, meeting with or hitting on those bodies, become conjoined with them.
Hit
To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, - often with implied chance, or luck.
And oft it hitsWhere hope is coldest and despair most fits.
And millions miss for one that hits.
Hit
A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
So he the famed Cilician fencer praised,And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed.
Hit
A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit;
What late he called a blessing, now was wit,And God's good providence, a lucky hit.
Hit
A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
Hit
A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
Hit
A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; - sometimes used specifically for a base hit.
Hit
An act of murder performed for hire, esp. by a professional assassin.
Hit
(baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball);
He came all the way around on Williams' hit
Hit
The act of contacting one thing with another;
Repeated hitting raised a large bruise
After three misses she finally got a hit
Hit
A conspicuous success;
That song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career
That new Broadway show is a real smasher
The party went with a bang
Hit
(physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together;
The collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction
Hit
A dose of a narcotic drug
Hit
A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate;
It has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit
Hit
A connection made via the internet to another website;
WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide
Hit
Cause to move by striking;
Hit a ball
Hit
Hit against; come into sudden contact with;
The car hit a tree
He struck the table with his elbow
Hit
Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely;
We were hit by really bad weather
He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager
The earthquake struck at midnight
Hit
Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument;
He hit her hard in the face
Hit
Reach a destination, either real or abstract;
We hit Detroit by noon
The water reached the doorstep
We barely made it to the finish line
I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts
Hit
Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level;
The thermometer hit 100 degrees
This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour
Hit
Hit with a missile from a weapon
Hit
Cause to experience suddenly;
Panic struck me
An interesting idea hit her
A thought came to me
The thought struck terror in our minds
They were struck with fear
Hit
Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target;
The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939
We must strike the enemy's oil fields
In the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2
Hit
Hit the intended target or goal
Hit
Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically;
The pianist strikes a middle C
Strike `z' on the keyboard
Her comments struck a sour note
Hit
Encounter by chance;
I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant
Hit
Gain points in a game;
The home team scored many times
He hit a home run
He hit .300 in the past season
Hit
Consume to excess;
Hit the bottle
Hit
Kill intentionally and with premeditation;
The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered
Hit
Drive something violently into a location;
He hit his fist on the table
She struck her head on the low ceiling
Hit
Pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to;
He tries to hit on women in bars
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