"right-click" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: right-clicks [present, singular, third-person], right-clicking [participle, present], right-clicked [participle, past], right-clicked [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} right-click (third-person singular simple present right-clicks, present participle right-clicking, simple past and past participle right-clicked)
  1. (intransitive, computing) To press the right-hand button on a computer mouse. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Computing Translations (to press right-hand button of a mouse): højreklikke (Danish), rechtsklikken (Dutch), napsauttaa hiiren kakkospainiketta (Finnish), faire un clic droit (French), deaschliceáil (Irish), щёлкать пра́вой кно́пкой мы́ши (ščólkatʹ právoj knópkoj mýši) [imperfective] (Russian), щёлкнуть пра́вой кно́пкой мы́ши (ščólknutʹ právoj knópkoj mýši) [perfective] (Russian), dèan briogadh deis (Scottish Gaelic), clicar el botón derecho (Spanish), cliquear el botón derecho (Spanish), hacer clic derecho (Spanish), sağ tıklamak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-right-click-en-verb-yNPtSYoW Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'to press right-hand button of a mouse': 98 2
  2. (transitive, computing) To activate (an item on the screen) by right-clicking while the pointer is over it. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Computing Translations (to activate by pressing right-hand button of a mouse): højreklikke (Danish), napsauttaa hiiren kakkospainikkeella (Finnish), deaschliceáil (Irish), щёлкать пра́вой кно́пкой мы́ши (ščólkatʹ právoj knópkoj mýši) [imperfective] (Russian), щёлкнуть пра́вой кно́пкой мы́ши (ščólknutʹ právoj knópkoj mýši) [perfective] (Russian), sağ tıklamak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-right-click-en-verb-QF5xyyyB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'to activate by pressing right-hand button of a mouse': 32 68
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: rightclick Related terms: left-click, middle-click

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for right-click meaning in English (5.4kB)

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      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to press right-hand button of a mouse",
      "word": "højreklikke"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to press right-hand button of a mouse",
      "word": "rechtsklikken"
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      "sense": "to press right-hand button of a mouse",
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    },
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      "sense": "to press right-hand button of a mouse",
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      "sense": "to press right-hand button of a mouse",
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      "sense": "to press right-hand button of a mouse",
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      "word": "щёлкать пра́вой кно́пкой мы́ши"
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      "roman": "ščólknutʹ právoj knópkoj mýši",
      "sense": "to press right-hand button of a mouse",
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    },
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      "code": "gd",
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      "sense": "to press right-hand button of a mouse",
      "word": "dèan briogadh deis"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to press right-hand button of a mouse",
      "word": "clicar el botón derecho"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to press right-hand button of a mouse",
      "word": "cliquear el botón derecho"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to press right-hand button of a mouse",
      "word": "hacer clic derecho"
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      "sense": "to press right-hand button of a mouse",
      "word": "sağ tıklamak"
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      "sense": "to activate by pressing right-hand button of a mouse",
      "word": "højreklikke"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to activate by pressing right-hand button of a mouse",
      "word": "napsauttaa hiiren kakkospainikkeella"
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      "sense": "to activate by pressing right-hand button of a mouse",
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