Spustelti

Spustelti is a Lithuanian verb commonly used to describe the action of clicking with a mouse or tapping on a touchscreen in computing contexts. The standard infinitive is spustelėti, while the non-diacritic variant spustelti is widespread in informal writing or digital text that omits diacritics. The noun form spustelėjimas or spustelėjimo veiksmas refers to the act of clicking.

In computing and digital interfaces, spustelėti means to trigger an action by selecting a user interface element with a pointing device or finger. Typical usages include spustelėti nuorodą (to click a link) and spustelėti mygtuką (to click a button). The term is common in software instructions, tutorials, and help documentation. In programming contexts, the related concept is the click event, which in Lithuanian is often described as spustelėjimas or referred to by its functional description.

Distinctions exist between spustelėti and paspausti. Paspausti more generally means to press, and is used for physical buttons or keys, whereas spustelėti emphasizes the act of clicking with a mouse or tapping on a touch screen. In contemporary Lithuanian IT usage, spustelėti is the standard term for clicking with a pointer device, while paspausti covers a broader range of pressing actions.

Etymology generally traces spustelėti to a root associated with the sound or action of a click, and it has become a stable part of modern IT vocabulary in Lithuanian.