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left-clicking

left-clicking is the present participle and gerund of left-click.

Meaning of left-click

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To press the left button on a computer mouse.
    Synonyms:
    click
  2. (transitive) To activate an item on the screen by left-clicking while the pointer is over it.

Questions about left-clicking

What is left-clicking the present participle and gerund of?
Left-clicking is the present participle and gerund of left-click.

Words near left-clicking in the dictionary

  1. left-behinds
  2. left-brainer
  3. left-brainers
  4. left-click
  5. left-clicked
  6. left-clicking
  7. left-clicks
  8. left-drag
  9. left-edge deletion
  10. left-footed
  11. left-footer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: left-clicking (page history and authors); left-click (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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