tick

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A tick (Ixodes hexagonus)

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[edit] Etymology 1

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

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tick (plural ticks)

  1. (fauna) A tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina.
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arthropod

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[edit] Etymology 2

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

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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. (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
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terms derived from tick (noun)
[edit] Translations
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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[edit] Verb

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.
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make a clicking noise
make a tick mark

[edit] Etymology 3

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

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tick (countable and uncountable; plural ticks)

  1. (uncountable) Ticking.
  2. A sheet that wraps around a mattress.
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ticking
sheet around a mattress
  • Dutch: tijk n. (fabric) or m. (object)

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From ticket

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tick (plural ticks)

  1. (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
    I bought my groceries at the corner shop on tick.
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credit, trust

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tick n.

  1. tick (quiet but sharp sound).

[edit] Declension

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