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Definition of 'tick'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tick
a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.

2.  tick
Brit. Informal. a moment or instant.

3.  tick
a small dot, mark, or electronic signal, as used to mark off an item on a list, serve as a reminder, or call attention to something.

4.  tick
a movement in the price of a stock, bond, or option.

5.  tick
the smallest possible tick on a given exchange.

6.  tick
a small contrasting spot of color on the coat of a mammal or the feathers of a bird.

7. (v.i.) tick
to emit a tick, like that of a clock.

8.  tick
to pass as with ticks of a clock:
The hours ticked by.

9. (v.t.) tick
to sound or announce by a tick or ticks:
The clock ticked the minutes.

10.  tick
to mark with a tick; check (usu. fol. by
off): to tick off the items on the list.

11.  tick
Slang.

12.  tick
to make angry.

13. (n.) tick
any of numerous bloodsucking arachnids of the order Acarina, related to but larger than mites, having a barbed proboscis for attachment to the skin: some are disease vectors.

14. (n.) tick
the cloth case of a mattress, pillow, etc., containing hair, feathers, or the like.

Etymology: (1425–75; late ME tikke, teke, tyke; cf. MD, MLG tēke, OHG ziahha, ziecha tick, pillowcase)

Definition of 'tick'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) tick, ticking
a metallic tapping sound
"he counted the ticks of the clock"

2. (noun) tick
any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals

3. (noun) check mark, check, tick
a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
"as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name"

4. (verb) tick
a light mattress

5. (verb) click, tick
make a clicking or ticking sound
"The clock ticked away"

6. (verb) tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat
make a sound like a clock or a timer
"the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"

7. (verb) tick, retick
sew
"tick a mattress"

8. (verb) check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off, tick
put a check mark on or near or next to
"Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items"; "mark off the units"

Definition of 'tick'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) tick
(of a clock) to make a short sound
I could hear the clock ticking.

2. tick
√ ) next to sth; = check

3. (noun) tick
the sound a clock makes
the tick of the clock

4. tick
√ ); = check

Definition of 'tick'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) tick
credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick

2. (noun) tick
any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs

3. (noun) tick
any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep)

4. (noun) tick
the cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling

5. (noun) tick
ticking. See Ticking, n

6. (noun) tick
a quick, audible beat, as of a clock

7. (noun) tick
any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check

8. (noun) tick
the whinchat; -- so called from its note

9. (verb) tick
to go on trust, or credit

10. (verb) tick
to give tick; to trust

11. (verb) tick
to make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat

12. (verb) tick
to strike gently; to pat

13. (verb) tick
to check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score

Definitions of 'tick'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. tick
1. A jiffy (sense 1).

2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the simulation mechanism. In AI applications, this amount of time is often left unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is the ordering of events. This sort of AI simulation is often pejoratively referred to as tick-tick-tick simulation, especially when the issue of simultaneity of events with long, independent chains of causes is handwaved.

3. In the FORTH language, a single quote character.

Translation of 'tick'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a regular sound, especially that of a watch, clock etc.
Afrikaans: tik	Arabic: قُرادَه	Bulgarian: тиктакане
Brazilian: tiquetaque	Czech: tikání	German: das Ticken
Danish: tik	Greek: χτύπος, τικ τακ	Spanish: tictac
Estonian: tiksumine	Farsi: صدای تک تک	Finnish: tikitys
French: tic-tac	Hebrew: טִקטוּק	Hindi: घड़ी की टिकटिक
Croatian: kuckanje (sata)	Hungarian: ketyegés	Indonesian: detikan
Icelandic: tif	Italian: tic, tic-tac	Japanese: チクタク
Korean: (시계 등의) ‘똑딱’ 소리	Lithuanian: tiksėjimas	Latvian: tikšķēšana
Malay: bunyi detik	Dutch: getik	Norwegian: tikking
Polish: tykanie	Portuguese: tiquetaque	Romanian: tic-tac
Russian: тиканье	Slovak: tikanie	Slovenian: tiktakanje
Serbian: tik, tak	Swedish: tickande	Thai: เสียงดังติ๊ก ๆ
Turkish: tıkırtı, tik-tak sesi	Taiwanese: 鐘錶的滴答聲	Ukrainian: цокання
Urdu: گھڑي وغيرہ کي مسلسل آواز	Vietnamese: tiếng tích tắc	Chinese: 钟表的滴答声
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