The clicks of an armature light enough to respond to the weak current of a long wire are too faint to be recognized by the ear, and hence in such long circuits some device must be introduced whereby the effect is increased.
By means of these varyingclicks of the sounder, the operator interprets the message.
It is clear that the working of the key which starts and stops the current in this line will be imitated by the motion and the resulting clicks of the sounder.
Then Milsom laughed too, for the frantic clicks from Los Angeles ran: "We want to know why-why-why?
Miss Kinzey nodded between clicks as the secretary looked at his watch.
He was haranguing his warriors in rapid clicks and gutturals, which conveyed no meaning to Grôm's ear.
She poured a stream of chatter quite unlike the clicks and barkings of the Bow-legs.
When you do, you've earned it and are entitled to it.
There seemed to be no intermission, really; no more, at any rate, than one's ear can detect between clicks in a telegraph room when the instruments work rapidly.
Faster, faster, like metallic clicks of a speeding-up machine, the sleet rattles for a little while, and lo!
But theclicks were growing louder; they seemed to be the sounds of iron-shod hoofs upon the rocky ground.
He had just inserted the pump when a succession of faint irregular clicks fell on his ear.
It sometimes suggests a Mongolian tongue, but without the guttural clicks and coughs.
I was told the Dodans came up and saw me, heard the telltale clicks of the register, and unnoticed left me.
But when the telegraph began to come into commercial use the operators at the receiving end noticed that they could read the messages from the long and short periods between the clicks of the receiving mechanism.
His rippling muscles were bunching up for the desperate attempt when the guard interfered, the sharp clicks of his Colt bringing the Mexican to an abrupt stop.
His hair is matted, his fingers bleeding from digging frantically in the sand for water; his lips, cracked and bleeding and swollen, hide the shrivelled, stiff tongue which clicks against his teeth at every painful step.
He cocked the rifle, the metallic clicks sweet to his ears.
In 1869 Reis, a German professor, constructed an instrument that sent a series of clicks along an electric wire to an electromagnetic receiver at the other end.
You are the first man in the country, that could ever take me at my fastest,” clicks out New York, “and the only one who could ever sit at the other end of my wire for more than two hours and a half.
Here the girl grew whiter still, and the clicksbecame very slow, but they did not cease.
The clicks were somehow different from Baba's, firmer and louder; but Johnny could understand them perfectly.
Baba's clicks were really the words of his own language.
As a little boy, Johnny thought everyone knew that those clicks were Baba's words.
He spoke to Baba constantly in the marva language, and Baba corrected him when he let his clicks become high pitched as Baba's once had been.
Bother me not," Johnny clicked quickly, shaping deep clicks just like Baba's in the back of his throat.
But Baba had cried out desperately in his new deep clicks for them to go away--and they had.
There were clicks from telegraph wires, scraps of talk from other telephones, and curious little squeals that were unlike any known sound.
There are even a few who are allowed to telephone their news directly to a swift linotype operator, who clicks it into type on his machine, without the scratch of a pencil.
The other two clicks are formed by the tongue operating upon the roof of the mouth.
The clicks in question are four in number, or, according to Bleek, “at least six.
But it seems to me that the force of this objection is removed if we remember the sounds which are arbitrarily invented by young children and uneducated deaf-mutes, not to mention the inarticulate clicks of the Bushmen.
Fitted to the fly-frame is a ratchet with two clicks and springs, these being used to prevent the train being stopped too suddenly, and the damage likely to arise therefrom.
In receiving, at this early stage, he must pick out each separate letter from the continuous series of clicks that he hears from the sounder.
The place hummed with muted voices and the almost silent clicks of an organized combat ops center.
For the medium sizes four clicks and punctures are required.
For the smaller sizes, three clicks and three punctures will surely indicate that the proper length of paper has been replaced on the exposing table.
Speak to Division, Sir," he says curtly, and clicks before I can answer.
In the tales and myths the sun, moon, and animals speak either with their own proper clicks, or else use the ordinary clicks in some way peculiar to themselves.
The Wa-Sandawi people here visited by Oskar Neumann are not Bantus, and speak a language radically distinct from that of the neighbouring Bantus, but full of clicks like that of the Bushmen[306].
The time between the two clicks can be short or long, to represent dots or dashes, which, together with spaces, represent letters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clicks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
