2. Noun. A clicking sound or action. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clicking
1. click [v] - See also: click
Medical Definition of Clicking
1. A snapping, crepitant noise noted on excursions of the temporomandibular articulation, due to an asynchronous movement of the disk and condyle. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clicking
Literary usage of Clicking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"THE clicking CONES ... As early as February I have heard the pitch- pine woods
merry with the clicking cones, and seen the fluttering showers of winged ..."
2. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"Harbour and Town of Bahia. Religious Procession. Black Angels. Land Planarians.
clicking Butterfly. Primeval Forest. Shooting Humming Birds and Toucans. ..."
3. The Shoe Industry by Frederick James Allen (1922)
"The clicking Machine. As has already been indicated, large shoe factories are
coming to use machines for cutting leather, in some factories both the hand ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1879)
"Heating continued ; pump stopped clicking. Time 11.37.—Na melted ; spark refuses
to pass; glass instantly covered with white deposit where the sodium boiled ..."
5. A Circuit Rider's Widow by Corra Harris (1916)
"We can always hear him clicking and clucking in the amen corner, because he is
our one rich man and our chief stingy man, and he knows everybody is waiting ..."
6. A Bibliography of the War Cripple by Douglas Crawford McMurtrie, Institute for the Crippled and Disabled (1918)
"An exact efficiency record is kept for each cutter, and totals of the work done
in the room are placed upon the day sheet. The clicking Machine. ..."
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