double-click
verb (used without object)
to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file.
double-clicked
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past participleof double-click.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof double-click.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
double-clickverb (used without object)to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file.
Example Sentences
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“I memorized every single vehicle in those videos,” he said, a note of pride in his voice as he double-clicked on a file and pointed at the Voxy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
I double-clicked the icon to launch it in my web browser, and it loaded today’s word.
From The Verge ● Feb. 1, 2022
Then he returned to the target’s computer and double-clicked on it, just as Lagunes had clicked on the link in her inbox.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2017
What good is an unwieldy paper wall map that can’t be pinched, zoomed, or double-clicked?
From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2012
From there it sped westward with the sun, lying silently in wait in corporate e-mail accounts until unsuspecting office denizens punched in, logged on and double-clicked on the file.
From Time Magazine Archive
