1. (n.)click a slight, sharp sound: the click of a latch.
2. click a small device for preventing backward movement of a mechanism, as a detent or pawl.
3. click any of a variety of ingressive, usu. implosive, speech sounds, phonemic in some languages, produced by suction occlusion and plosive or affricative release.
4. click any of a variety of sounds used in calling or urging on horses or other animals, in expressing reprimand or sympathy, or produced in audiblekissing.
5. click Informal. a sudden insight or realization.
6. (v.i.)click to emit or make a slight, sharp sound, or series of such sounds, as by the cocking of a pistol.
7. click Informal.
8. click to succeed; make a hit.
9. click to fit together; function well together: Their personalities don't really click.
10. click to become suddenly clear or intelligible.
11. (v.t.)click to cause to click.
12. click to strike together with a click: He clicked his heels and saluted.
Etymology: (1575–85; perh. imit.; cf. D klick (n.), klikken (v.))
Definition of 'click'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)chink, click, clink a short light metallic sound
2. (noun)suction stop, click a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu)
3. (noun)pawl, detent, click, dog a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheelforward or prevent it from moving backward
11. (verb)click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"
1. (noun)click a slightsharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol
2. (noun)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 latterbeing the noise ordinarily used in urging a horseforward
3. (noun)click a detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchetwheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel