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DOUBLE-CLICK

Specialty Definition: DOUBLE-CLICK

DomainDefinition

Computing

Double-click To click a mouse button twice in rapid succession without moving the mouse. Often used as a shortcut, combining the actions of selecting, and then opening a document (or activating some other kind of object) within a graphical user interface. Some text editors use double-click to select the word under the mouse pointer. (1997-03-21). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DOUBLE-CLICK

"DOUBLE-CLICK" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "DOUBLE-CLICK" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)80%4175,879
Noun (singular)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DOUBLE-CLICK

Language Translations for "DOUBLE-CLICK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Swedish

  

dubbelklicka (doubleclick). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DOUBLE-CLICK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-c-d-e-i-k-l-l-o-u"

-1 letter: cockbilled.

-3 letters: cockbill, duckbill, lodicule.

-4 letters: becloud, blocked, buckled, bucolic, budlike, bullied, bullock, ciboule, clicked, clocked, clucked, cockled, collide, collied, collude, cubicle, cuckold, cullied, ecbolic, loculed, occlude.

-5 letters: bilked, billed, boccie, bodice, boiled, bolide, bolled, boucle, boulle, bucked, buckle, bulked, bulled, ceboid, cocked, cockle, coiled, collie, cuboid, culled, docile, double, duckie, duelli, duello, keloid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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