clickとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: klĭk, IPA^(key): /klɪk/, [kʰl̥ɪk]
• 韻: -ɪk
• 異形同音異義語: clique, klick

語源 1

Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s. Compare Saterland Frisian klikke (“to click”), Middle Dutch clicken (Modern Dutch: klikken (“to click”)), Old High German klecchen (Modern German: klecken, klicken (“to click”)), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”), Norwegian klikke (“to click”), Norwegian klekke (“to hatch”).

名詞

click (複数形 clicks)

1. 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.

   As I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened.

   • 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, OCLC 19736994; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, OCLC 258624721:

     There was a click in the front sitting-room. Mr. Pearce had extinguished the lamp.

2. (Britain) The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.
3. (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.

   tsk is a click in English.

4. Sound made by a dolphin.
5. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
6. (graphical user interface) The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
7. (by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 189, number 2, page 48:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.

8. A pawl or similar catch.
   • 1943, Chilton's Jewelers' Circular

     A wheel, with teeth in which a click or pawl engages to prevent backward motion; or the same with addition of another click through which power is imparted at intervals to move the wheel.

動詞

click (三人称単数 現在形 clicks, 現在分詞 clicking, 過去形および過去分詞形 clicked)

A mouse click

1. (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
   • 1603 (first performance; published 1605)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Seianus his Fall. A Tragœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342:

     [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 50, in Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:

     She clicked back the bolt which held the window sash.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Owl

     when merry milkmaids click the latch

   • 1918, The Cosmopolitan (volume 66, page 61)

     His voice rose in a clacking chatter; his long whip curled over the backs of the dogs, and, eager for the thrill of the trail, the malemiuts leaped out in a straight tawny line, whimpering and whining and clicking their jaws […]

2. (intransitive) To emit a click.
   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎^[2]:

     Surely that picture will be fixed for ever, for I heard the cameras clicking round me like crickets in a field.

3. (Britain) To snap the fingers.
4. (computing) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
5. (transitive, graphical user interface) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
6. (computing, advertising) To visit (a web site).

   Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com.

7. (intransitive, graphical user interface) To navigate by clicking a mouse button.

   I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site.

   From the home page, click through to the Products section.

8. (intransitive) To make sense suddenly.

   Then it clicked—I had been going the wrong way all that time.

9. (intransitive) To get on well.

   When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since.

10. (dated, intransitive) To tick.
    • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

      the varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door

11. (transitive, India) To take (a photograph) with a camera.
    • 2014, Dhisti Desai, Innocent Desire (page 107)

      Brad immediately took out his Iphone^[sic] and clicked a picture of the plant and posted it up on Google and clicked search.

    • 2017, Pankaj Upadhyay, Homecoming:

      They clicked some pictures outside his sea facing bungalow and left dejected again.

12. (intransitive, India) To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
13. (intransitive, India) Of a film, to be successful at the box office.

使用する際の注意点

Style guides for technical writers generally recommend using click transitively (for example: click the button), but intransitive use with on (click on the icon) is also widespread. The style guides do accept the use of in in phrases like click in the field.

間投詞

click

1. The sound of a click.

   Click! The door opened.

派生語

関連する語

• click one's fingers
• cliché

参考

• ejective
• tsk, tsk tsk

名詞

click (複数形 clicks)

1. Alternative spelling of klick

語源 3

From Middle English clike, from Old French clique (“latch”).

名詞

click (複数形 clicks)

1. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
2. (UK, dialect) The latch of a door.

語源 4

From Middle English cleken, a variant of clechen (“to grab”), perhaps from 古期英語 *clēċan, *clǣċan, a byform of clyċċan (“to clutch”). More at clutch.

動詞

click (三人称単数 現在形 clicks, 現在分詞 clicking, 過去形および過去分詞形 clicked)

1. (obsolete) To snatch.
   • 1716, Thomas Ward, England's Reformation:

     ‘I take 'em to prevent abuses,’ Cants he, and then the Crucifix And Chalice from the Altar clicks.