The difference between Click and Dog

When used as nouns, click means 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, whereas dog means a mammal, canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.

When used as verbs, click means to cause to make a click, whereas dog means to pursue with the intent to catch.


Click is also interjection with the meaning: the sound of a click.

check bellow for the other definitions of Click and Dog

  1. Click as a noun:

    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.

    Examples:

    "I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened; a click of one’s fingers"

  2. Click as a noun (phonetics):

    An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.

    Examples:

    "[[tsk]] is a click in English."

  3. Click as a noun:

    Sound made by a dolphin.

  4. Click as a noun:

    The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.

  5. Click as a noun:

    The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software. A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.

    Examples:

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

  6. Click as a noun:

    A pawl or similar catch.

  1. Click as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.

  2. Click as a verb (transitive, computing, ambitransitive):

    To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).

  3. Click as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.

  4. Click as a verb (transitive, computing, advertising):

    To visit a web site.

    Examples:

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

  5. Click as a verb (intransitive, computing):

    To navigate by clicking a mouse button.

    Examples:

    "I soon grew bored and clicked away from the site."

    "From the home page, click through to the Products section."

  6. Click as a verb (intransitive):

    To emit a click.

    Examples:

    "He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked."

  7. Click as a verb (intransitive):

    To make sense suddenly.

    Examples:

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

  8. Click as a verb (intransitive):

    To get on well.

    Examples:

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

  9. Click as a verb (dated, intransitive):

    To tick.

  10. Click as a verb (transitive, India):

    To take (a photograph) with a camera.

  1. Click as a noun:

  1. Click as a noun:

    A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.

  2. Click as a noun (UK, dialect):

    The latch of a door.

  1. Click as a verb (obsolete):

    To snatch.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Halliwell"

  1. Click as a noun (US):

  1. Click as a verb (US):

  1. Dog as a noun:

    A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.

    Examples:

    "The dog barked all night long."

  2. Dog as a noun:

    A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).

  3. Dog as a noun (slang, derogatory):

    A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

    Examples:

    "She’s a real dog."

  4. Dog as a noun (slang):

    A man (derived from definition 2).

    Examples:

    "You lucky dog!"

    "He's a silly dog."

  5. Dog as a noun (slang, derogatory):

    A coward.

    Examples:

    "Come back and fight, you dogs!"

  6. Dog as a noun (derogatory):

    Someone who is morally reprehensible.

    Examples:

    "You dirty dog."

  7. Dog as a noun (slang):

    A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).

  8. Dog as a noun:

    Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.

  9. Dog as a noun:

    A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)

  10. Dog as a noun:

    A metal support for logs in a fireplace.

    Examples:

    "The dogs were too hot to touch."

  11. Dog as a noun (cartomancy):

    The eighteenth Lenormand card.

  12. Dog as a noun:

    A hot dog.

  13. Dog as a noun (poker, _, slang):

    Underdog.

  14. Dog as a noun (slang, almost always, _, in the plural):

    Foot.

    Examples:

    "uxi My dogs are barking! My feet hurt!"

  15. Dog as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):

    (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.

    Examples:

    "My dog is dead. My mobile-phone battery has run out of charge and is no longer able to function."

  16. Dog as a noun:

    One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.

  1. Dog as a verb (transitive):

    To pursue with the intent to catch.

  2. Dog as a verb (transitive):

    To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

    Examples:

    "The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step."

  3. Dog as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To fasten a hatch securely.

    Examples:

    "It is very important to dog down these hatches..."

  4. Dog as a verb (intransitive, emerging usage in, _, British):

    To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

    Examples:

    "I admit that I like to dog at my local country park."

  5. Dog as a verb (intransitive, transitive):

    To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

    Examples:

    "A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it."