Lick vs. Click — What's the Difference?

To pass the tongue over or along

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

To lap up

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

To lap or flicker at like a tongue

Become suddenly clear or understandable

To beat or thrash.

A brief, sharp sound

To defeat soundly

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

To deal with effectively; overcome

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

To pass or lap quickly and rapidly

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

The act or process of licking.

(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 amount obtained by licking

To produce a click or series of clicks.

A small quantity; a bit

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

A deposit of exposed natural salt that is licked by passing animals.

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

(Slang) A sudden hard stroke; a blow.

To have good social or working relations; hit it off

(Slang) An attempt; a try

To become clear; fall into place

(Informal) Speed; pace

To be a great success

(Music) A phrase improvised by a soloist, especially on the guitar or banjo.

To cause to click, as by striking together

(transitive) To stroke with the tongue.

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

(transitive) To lap; to take in with the tongue.

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

(colloquial) To beat with repeated blows.

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

(colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.

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.

(colloquial) To overcome.

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

To perform cunnilingus.

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

(colloquial) To do anything partially.

Sound made by a dolphin.

(of flame, waves etc.) To lap.

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

The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.

(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.

The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.

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

A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.

A pawl or similar catch.

A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.

A knock or blow.

A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.

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

(colloquial) A stroke or blow.

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

(colloquial) A small amount; a whit.

The latch of a door.

(informal) An attempt at something.

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

(music) A short motif.

(intransitive) To emit a click.

(informal) A rate of speed. Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.

(British) To snap the fingers.

(slang) An act of cunnilingus.

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

An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly nodot=1back-formations

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

To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.

To visit (a web site).

To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk.

To navigate by clicking a mouse button.

To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter.

(intransitive) To make sense suddenly.

A stroke of the tongue in licking.

(intransitive) To get along well.

A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied.

To tick.

A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; - often, but not always, near salt springs. Called also salt lick.

To take (a photograph) with a camera.

A slap; a quick stroke.

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

A salt deposit that animals regularly lick

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

Touching with the tongue;

(obsolete) To snatch.

(boxing) a blow with the fist;

(US) clique

Beat thoroughly in a competition or fight;

The sound of a click.

Pass the tongue over;

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of;

To move with the sound of a click.

Take up with the tongue;

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;