Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To press down and release a button on (a pointing device) twice in rapid succession in order to activate a command or function represented graphically on a display screen.
- v. To double-click a pointing device.
Wiktionary
- n. computing The action of pushing the button on a mouse twice in quick succession in order to perform a different task that would be performed from a single-click or triple-click.
- v. computing To push the button on a mouse twice in quick succession in order to perform different task that would be performed from a single-click or triple-click.
Examples
“If not, open the CD from your Mac desktop, then double-click on any install/setup files that seem to have two red lines, looking like a pause symbol, attached to them.”
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“The buttons on the graphic remote weren't as responsive as I'd like - I had to double-click some options, and occasionally it would only recognize two digits if a channel had three, and I'd have to re-click repeatedly - but except for changing channels it works well.”
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“Enable URL-detection and double-click your way to the web.”
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“Quick tip on the Visual tab bar: if you double-click the separator, it toggles between Thumbnail previews, text-only, and text with icons. kftgr kftgr”
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“I can't even double-click the time to see a calendar because the Date/Time changing is locked down too.”
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“So you'll have to code a. theme file for it as well (or copy from another theme and change the path to the. msstyles file), which you can double-click to apply.”
“You can now double-click on the directory and see the code:”
“To load a program, a list of already created programs in shown and the user can double-click it to load it in the editor.”
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“If you double-click on that directory you will see a few different buttons.”
“Once inside, double-click the Contents folder, find the file named Info. plist, and double-click that to open it with the Property List Editor.”
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