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Clicker vs Clickier - What's the difference?

clicker | clickier |

As a noun clicker

is (slang) the remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, vcr, or other electronic equipment.

As an adjective clickier is

(clicky).

clicker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang) The remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, VCR, or other electronic equipment.
  • We have a clicker for the TV, one for the VCR, one for the DVD player and another one that does it all.
    There are too many clickers in this house.
  • A person who cuts out the uppers of shoes from pieces of leather using a flexible knife that clicks as it changes direction.
  • A machine that cuts materials using a steel rule die. The name comes from the sound (click) when the material is cut. May be hand, pneumatic, or hydraulic powered.
  • A signalling device used by military forces. Pressed between thumb and fingers, it makes a small but distinctive click understood by other members of a unit.
  • A small mechanical device that produces a clicking sound, used in dog training.
  • Someone who clicks, for example on internet hyperlinks.
  • (obsolete, UK) One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.
  • (obsolete, printing) One who has charge of the work of a companionship.
  • (webster)

    clickier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (clicky)

  • clicky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Easily or frequently clicking or being clicked.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 15, David Pogue, Tech Shows, and Writers, Uninspired, New York Times citation
  • , passage=There’s a slide-out thumb keyboard, and it has a wonderful, rubberized clicky feel
  • Emitting a click sound.
  • * 2009 , Natalie Long, Click! You're red:
  • But you might not immediately think of Dorothy Gale's clicky , glittery red shoes, which though bright, have cast a more subtle shadow over the world of fashion.

    Derived terms

    * clickily * clickiness