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After I click, I always have to jiggle the mouse before the click is actually written to the file; if the cursor doesn't move, the script won't work.

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  1. noun A brief, sharp sound: the click of a door latch.
  2. noun A mechanical device, such as a pawl, that snaps into position.
  3. noun Computer Science An instance of pressing down and releasing a button on a pointing device, such as a mouse.

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  • She excused herself from the table and came to them. —  A Traitor to Memory
  • After I click, I always have to jiggle the mouse before the click is actually written to the file; if the cursor doesn't move, the script won't work. —  LinuxQuestions.org
  • On my late 2007 MBP 2. 2G, two fingers on teh trackpad during a click is a right-click. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • (a) If a child does something for which he has been admonished, the click is slower, lips are slightly rounded, and with this there is a head-shaking, all as if to say, "Are you stupid!" —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2
  • We have a great revolution against the culture. —  Fight Club
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Imitative.

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  1. Not found in Middle English; = Dutch klikken (redupl. klikklakken) = Low German klikken (later G. klicken and Old French cliquer, click, clack, clap: see clicket and cliché), click, clack, clash, = Danish klikke = Swedish klicka, miss fire: an imitative variant of clack, expressing a slighter sound.
  2. = Middle Dutch klick = Low German klik (later G. klick) = Norwegian klikk, klik, a click, = Danish klik, a miss-fire; from the verb.
  3. North. English, = cleek, cleach, variant of clutch: see cleik, clutch.
 

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