(n.) A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.
(v. i.) To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
(v. t.) To move with the sound of a click.
(v. t.) To cause to make a clicking noise, as by striking together, or against something.
(n.) A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.
(v. t.) To snatch.
(n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel.
(n.) The latch of a door.
Example Sentences:
(1) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
(2) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
(3) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
(4) On the basis of recorded ABR data, sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive values were estimated for click intensities which could be used for single-intensity ABR screens.
(5) suppress the response to the second of a pair of clicks delivered at a 0.5 s interval.
(6) Similar responses were obtained with gated noise bursts and by pauses in a series of clicks.
(7) However, the data suggest that this area may actually represent two separate projections to the cortex, since a small subarea characterized by longer response latencies was located posteriorally and laterally within the click field in the majority of animals investigated.
(8) Based on initial auscultatory findings, patients were divided into: (1) single or multiple apical systolic clicks with no murmur (n = 99); (2) single or multiple apical systolic clicks and a late systolic murmur (n = 129); and (3) single or multiple apical clicks and an apical pansystolic murmur or murmur beginning in the first half of systole (n = 63).
(9) Results showed that embryos stimulated by clicks began breathing about nine hours in advance of unstimulated controls and hatched about 23 hours in advance.
(10) Various parameters of the ABR were compared at the two click rates in the control and experimental states to see if the higher click rate was more effective in detecting pathology in the nervous system.
(11) No consistent pattern of relationships between reported and recorded clicking sounds and single factors obtained by the questionnaire or clinically recorded variables could be found.
(12) Nonejection systolic and diastolic clicks appeared when a Swan-Ganz catheter was positioned in the proximal portion of the right pulmonary artery.
(13) Click to enlarge and debate the strip below the line.
(14) Synovitis plays a major role, as demonstrated by the frequency of clicking fingers (45%), and requires synovectomy that allows thoroughly exploring the carpal tunnel and removing a highly aggressive element against tendons.
(15) Four cats, classically conditioned to a flashing light paired with food reinforcement, were tested for amplitude changes of click-evoked potentials during increasing hours of deprivation.
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(17) The cochlear summating potential (SP) preceding the auditory nerve compound action potential (AP) was elicited by broadband alternating condensation and rarefaction clicks and recorded by noninvasive electrodes from the external auditory meatus (EAM) of 60 volunteers of both sexes, 12 to 67 years old, who had normal hearing for age.
(18) I've had two or three serious relationships, I haven't been married, I haven't had that ultimate relationship where something clicks and I'm like, 'I get it now!'
(19) Potentials were evoked with bilaterally presented click stimuli and with electrical stimulation of the ventral and dorsal divisions of the medial geniculate body.
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Cluck
Definition:
(v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen.
(v. t.) To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.
(n.) The call of a hen to her chickens.
(n.) A click. See 3d Click, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I cannot tell you how I should deprecate anything leading to the publication of these letters," she clucked to her publisher.
(2) Partial separation from chicks causes a significant decline of the clucking rate in hens, this response however does not disappear as in the case of total separation.
(3) Britain and America make clucking noises but are just as cynical as the Bahraini royal family itself.
(4) Dieticians clucked over quinoa approvingly because it ticked the low-fat box and fitted in with government healthy eating advice to "base your meals on starchy foods".
(5) Let me ask the right honourable gentleman again: why is he so chicken when it comes to the Greens?” This inevitably provoked a chorus of clucks from the Labour benches as Miliband said it was Cameron who was running scared.
(6) "They might not be bitches at all – they might just have faces that look bitchy," one of the films several narrators clucks sympathetically.
(7) Newly hatched domestic chicks learned to prefer the object bearing the same visual characteristics as the environment associated to the initially preferred clucking sound.
(8) That's all done centrally…") then, as days turned to weeks, then months, to a succession of customer complaints people who all clucked and expressed sympathy before saying things like: "moving forward…" and telling me that they hadn't a clue when the bank would get down to dealing with my request.
(9) Then all chicks were individually exposed to two alternating optical stimulus situations of equal length, each of which was accompanied by one of the clucking sounds.
(10) Half a dozen mud and grass-thatched houses circle an ever-changing cast of clucking hens, goats and children.
(11) Barring catastrophic medical reports on Susan Boyle, Britain's Got Talent will undoubtedly continue next year because, brutally, 20 million viewers will always trump a few clucking columnists.
(12) He had now become a rightwing figure, cluckingly approved of by Conservatives.
(13) This helps explain why I found Labour’s opposition over the past five years so woeful, watching as they scrabbled about like so many clucking hens, trying to cobble together a response to Tory austerity.
(14) Subsequently, in an exclusively visual choice situation, the chicks chose the stimulus that had been associated with the preferred clucking sound.
(15) Jeremy is not going to ban meat A rare vegetarian in politics, Corbyn raised concerned bleats and clucks from the livestock sector when he appointed an even rarer political vegan to the farming brief.
(16) In 2010, Komen decided to partner with Kentucky Fried Chicken, sparking a "what the cluck" campaign against it by Breast Cancer Action, an education advocacy group.
(17) He laughs almost constantly; a high guttural clucking, punctuated by long pauses and apologies and puffs on a breakfast cigarette.
(18) Domestic chicks chose after prenatal exposure between two different clucking sounds by running towards one loudspeaker and settling there.
(19) The "intelligent, gentlemanlike" practitioner is a kind of therapist, whose business is humouring his clucking patients.
(20) Because of our low turnover, and the fact that people are really into their jobs, $15 an hour wasn’t a big stretch,” Brian Parker, co-founder of Moo Cluck Moo, told NPR .