Button vs Click - What's the difference?
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A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
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A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
(graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
(US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
(botany) A bud.
(slang) The clitoris.
(curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
(fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
(poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button .
(poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement marking painted stripe.
(South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
A unit of length equal to 1/12 of an inch.
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 a proper noun button
is .As a noun 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 a verb 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 an interjection click is
the sound of a click.button
English
(wikipedia button)Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
Usage notes
For the senses 2 and 3, a button is often marked by a verb rather than a noun, and the button itself is called with the verb and button''. For example, a button to start something is generally called ''start button .Derived terms
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* switch * toggle * triggerDerived terms
* button one's lip * button up * unbuttonclick
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.
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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)