Synonyms of the word

detent

• n. That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which…
• v. The action of creating a detent mechanism to lock or unlock movement.

catch

• n. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
• n. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
• n. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
• n. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
• n. (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
• n. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
• n. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
• n. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
• n. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
• n. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
• n. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
• n. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
• n. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
• n. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
• n. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually…
• n. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
• n. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting…
• n. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
• n. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
• n. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
• n. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
• n. A slight remembrance; a trace.
• v. (heading) To capture, overtake.
• v. (heading) To seize hold of.
• v. (heading) To intercept.
• v. (heading) To receive (by being in the way).
• v. (heading) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
• v. (heading) To seize attention, interest.
• v. (heading) To obtain or experience.

click

• n. A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something…
• n. (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
• n. Sound made by a dolphin.
• n. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
• n. The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
• v. (transitive, computing) (direct and indirect) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
• v. (transitive, computing) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse…
• v. (transitive, computing, advertising) To visit a web site.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
• v. (intransitive) To emit a click.
• v. (intransitive) To click the left button of a computer mouse while pointing.
• v. (intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To get on well.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To tick.
• interj. The sound of a click.
• n. Alternative spelling of klick.
• n. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward…
• n. (Britain, dialect) The latch of a door.
• v. (obsolete) To snatch.
• n. (US) Misspelling of clique.
• v. (US) Misspelling of clique.

dog

• n. A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable…
• n. A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).
• n. (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
• n. (slang) A man (derived from definition 2).
• n. (slang, derogatory) A coward.
• n. (derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.
• n. (slang) A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
• n. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like…
• n. A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click…
• n. A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
• n. A hot dog.
• n. (poker slang) Underdog.
• n. (slang, almost always in the plural) Foot.
• v. (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
• v. (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
• v. (intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest…

pawl

• n. A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction…
• v. (transitive) To stop with a pawl.

stop

• v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
• v. (intransitive) To not continue.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
• v. (intransitive) To tarry.
• v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
• v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
• v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
• n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
• n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
• n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
• n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
• n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
• n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
• n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
• n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
• n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
• n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
• n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
• n. (photography) An f-stop.
• n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
• n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
• n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
• adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
• interj. halt! stop!
• punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
• adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.