Blick vs Click - What's the difference?
blick | click |
The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.
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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, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(phonetics) 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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
* Ben Jonson
* Thackeray
* Tennyson
(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.
(advertising) To visit a web site.
To emit a click.
To click the left button of a computer mouse while pointing.
To make sense suddenly.
To get on well.
(dated) To tick.
* Goldsmith
A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
(UK, dialect) The latch of a door.
(obsolete) To snatch.
As verbs the difference between blick and click
is that blick is (obsolete|intransitive) to shine; gleam while click is to cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click or click can be (obsolete) to snatch or click can be (us).As nouns the difference between blick and click
is that blick is the brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process while click is 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, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand or click can be or click can be a detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion or click can be (us).As an interjection click is
the sound of a click.blick
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) blikken, blikien, .Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)click
English
(wikipedia click)Etymology 1
Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s.Noun
(en noun)- There was a click in the front sitting-room. Mr. Pearce had extinguished the lamp.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about:
Verb
(en verb)- [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.
- She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash.
- when merry milkmaids click the latch
- Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com
- He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked .
- Click here to go to the next page.
- Then it clicked - I had been going the wrong way all that time.
- When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.
- The varnished clock that clicked behind the door.
Derived terms
* click one's fingers * double-click * point-and-click * right-clickSee also
* ejective * tsk, tsk tskEtymology 2
Etymology 3
Compare (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 4
(etyl) kleken? clichen? Compare clutch.Verb
(en verb)- (Halliwell)