tick

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A tick (Ixodes hexagonus)

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Old English ticia (“parasitic animal”), from West Germanic, compare Dutch teek, German Zecke.

Noun [edit]

tick (plural ticks)

  1. (fauna) A tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina.
Translations [edit]
arthropod

See also [edit]

Etymology 2 [edit]

From Middle English tek (“light touch", "tap”)

Noun [edit]

tick (plural ticks)

  1. A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
    The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation.
  2. A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
    At midday, the long bond is up a tick.
  3. (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
  4. (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
    I'll be back in a tick.
  5. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) a mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement; checkmark
    Indicate that you are willing to receive marketing material by putting a tick in the box
Derived terms [edit]
Terms derived from tick (noun)
Translations [edit]
quiet but sharp, repeated sound
unit of measurement
unit of time defined by timer frequency — see jiffy
short period of time
checkmark
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Verb [edit]

tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked)

  1. To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
  2. To make a tick mark.
  3. (informal) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
    He took the computer apart to see how it ticked.
    I wonder what makes her tick.
Translations [edit]
make a clicking noise
make a tick mark
make a clicking noise

Etymology 3 [edit]

From Middle English tike, probably from Middle Dutch, from Latin theca (“cover”)

Noun [edit]

tick (countable and uncountable; plural ticks)

  1. (uncountable) Ticking.
  2. A sheet that wraps around a mattress.
Translations [edit]
ticking
sheet around a mattress

Etymology 4 [edit]

From ticket

Noun [edit]

tick (plural ticks)

  1. (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
    • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 190:
      He paid his mother-in-law rent and, when the baker or the butcher or the grocer wouldn't let her have any more on tick, he paid the bills.
Translations [edit]
credit, trust

Swedish [edit]

Noun [edit]

tick n

  1. tick (quiet but sharp sound)

Declension [edit]

Declension of tick
singular plural
Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tick ticket tick ticken
genitive ticks tickets ticks tickens
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