different between mike vs click

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Etymology 1

Alteration of mic, clipping of microphone. Attested since 1927.

Noun

mike (plural mikes)

1. (informal) A microphone.
   • 1970, Theodore Sturgeon and Edward H. Waldo, "The Pod in the Barrier", in A Touch of Strange, Ayer Publishing, ?ISBN, page 28,

     "Then I say to the recording, for the record," I barked, right into the mike, […]

   • 1981, John Swaigen, How to Fight for What’s Right: The Guide to Public Interest Law, James Lorimer & Company, ?ISBN, pages 118–119,

     Obviously, one must watch what one says in the vicinity of a microphone. More than one person has made a “private” statement in the presence of an open mike.

   • 2007, John Sellers, Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life, Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN, page 85,

     When the haggard bartender informed us that there would be an open-mike event later in the evening, I got my first sense that not everyone in Manchester cared about the music the city has produced.

Translations

Verb

mike (third-person singular simple present mikes, present participle miking, simple past and past participle miked)

1. To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on.
   • 1994 September, Jim Gaines, transcribed in Alan di Perna, "Step Lively: Recalling the recording process of SRV’s IN STEP with album producer Jim Gaines", in Guitar World Magazine, reprinted in Guitar World Presents Stevie Ray Vaughan: Stevie Ray In His Own Words, Hal Leonard (1997), ?ISBN, page 81,

     “And sometimes I’d just have to mike the room. You could run into some weird phasing problems with the individual mics because the speakers were all reacting differently.”

   • 1996, J.R. Robinson, quoted in Mark Huntly Parsons, The Drummer’s Studio Survival Guide: How to get the best possible drum tracks on any recording project, Hal Leonard, ?ISBN, page 72,

     He knows me, I know him, and I know how he’s going to mike the drums and what selection of mic’s he's going to use.

   • 2006, Glenn Haertlein, Project Vectus, Lulu, ?ISBN, page 108,

     “Zeb, is everything go on the AV equipment?” I heard Jim ask. ¶ “Yep,” Zeb replied. “I just need to mike him up.” […] “All set,” he said once he clipped the wireless microphone to my shirtfront.

2. To measure using a micrometer.
   • 1983, Tom S. Wilson, How to Rebuild Your Big-block Chevy, HPBooks, ?ISBN, page 98,

     Measure Valve-Stem Diameter—To be positive about it you’ll have to mike the valve stem with a 1-in. micrometer as explained on pages 100 and 101.

Usage notes

• This term is often found in the synonymous phrasal verb mike up, as in the 2006 quotation above.

Translations

Alternative forms

• mic

Etymology 2

From Mike, representing the letter m.

Noun

mike (plural mikes)

1. (military, slang) A minute.

   We'll be there in one zero mikes [i.e. ten minutes].

Etymology 3

Noun

mike (plural mikes)

1. (slang) Short for microgram.
   • 1970, Milton Travers, Each Other's Victims (page 43)

     The beginner's dose may be anywhere from 100 to 250 mikes — micrograms, or millionths of a gram. Most hardened heads need 600 to 800 mikes, and some as many as 1,400 mikes, before they experience any sensation of getting off.

Anagrams

• Keim, Kemi, Kime, kime

Japanese

Romanization

mike

1. R?maji transcription of ??

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kl?k, IPA^(key): /kl?k/, [k?l??k]
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophones: clique, klick

Etymology 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”).

Noun

click (plural 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, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

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

2. (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.

   tsk is a click in English.

3. Sound made by a dolphin.
4. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
5. The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.

   With the right software you can program your mouse to do a double click with a single click (but that's cheating)

   1. (by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
6. 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.

Translations

Verb

click (third-person singular simple present clicks, present participle clicking, simple past and past participle clicked)

1. (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
   • 1603, Ben Jonson, Sejanus His Fall

     [Jove] clicked all his marble thumbs.

   • ?, 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. (transitive, computing, transitive, intransitive) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
3. (transitive, computing) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
4. (transitive, computing, advertising) To visit a web site.

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

5. (intransitive, computing) 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.

6. (intransitive) To emit a click.

   He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked.
7. (intransitive) To make sense suddenly.

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

8. (intransitive) To get on well.

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

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

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

10. (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.
11. (intransitive, India) To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
12. (intransitive, India) (of a film) To be successful at the box office.

Usage notes

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.

Translations

Interjection

click

1. The sound of a click.

   Click! The door opened.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• click one's fingers
• cliché

See also

• ejective
• tsk, tsk tsk

Etymology 2

Noun

click (plural clicks)

1. Alternative spelling of klick

Etymology 3

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

Noun

click (plural clicks)

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

Etymology 4

From Middle English cleken, a variant of clechen (“to grab”), perhaps from Old English *cl??an, *cl??an, a byform of cly??an (“to clutch”). More at clutch.

Verb

click (third-person singular simple present clicks, present participle clicking, simple past and past participle clicked)

1. (obsolete) To snatch.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 5

Noun

click (plural clicks)

1. (US) Misspelling of clique.

Verb

click (third-person singular simple present clicks, present participle clicking, simple past and past participle clicked)

1. (US) Misspelling of clique.

Italian

Noun

click m (invariable)

1. Alternative form of clic (especially of a computer mouse)

Spanish

Noun

click m (plural clicks)

1. Misspelling of clic.