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Click can be an interjection, a noun or a verb.
click used as an interjection:
- The sound of a click.
"Click! The door opened."
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
click used as a noun:
- A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock or a latch, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand.
"I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened." - 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.
- The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse.
- A kilometre.
"The term is used in countries that have adopted the metric system. In USA, it is commonly used in war and science fiction films; for example, the target is 5 clicks north." - The term used to show approval, acceptance, or general agreement.
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Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
click used as a verb:
- To cause to make a click, eg to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- (direct and indirect) 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. (Used in Advertising)
- #: Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com
- To emit a click.
"He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked." - To click the left button of a computer mouse while pointing.
"Click here to go to the next page." - To make sense suddenly.
"Then it clicked - I had been going the wrong way all that time." - To get on well at a first meeting.
"When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is click?
- Interjection usage: Click! The door opened.
- Noun usage: I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened.
- Noun usage: a click of one’s fingers
- Noun usage: The term is used in countries that have adopted the metric system. In USA, it is commonly used in war and science fiction films; for example, the target is 5 clicks north.
- Verb usage: He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked.
- Verb usage: Click here to go to the next page.
- Verb usage: Then it clicked - I had been going the wrong way all that time.
- Verb usage: When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of click are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of click, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
