TICK

tick

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

tick

(noun) a light mattress

tick, ticking

(noun) a metallic tapping sound; “he counted the ticks of the clock”

check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off, tick

(verb) 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”

tick, retick

(verb) sew; “tick a mattress”

tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat

(verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer; “the clocks were ticking”; “the grandfather clock beat midnight”

click, tick

(verb) make a clicking or ticking sound; “The clock ticked away”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

tick (plural ticks)

A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

Hypernyms: ectoparasite, arachnid

Etymology 2

Noun

tick (plural ticks)

A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.

A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.

(computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).

(colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.

Synonym: sec

(video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.

(Australian, NZ, British, Irish) A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.

Synonym: checkmark

(birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc, and thus added to a list of observed birds.

(ornithology) The whinchat.

Verb

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

To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.

To make a tick or checkmark.

(informal) To work or operate, especially mechanically.

To strike gently; to pat.

(birdwatching) To add a bird to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).

Etymology 3

Noun

tick (countable and uncountable, plural ticks)

(uncountable) Ticking.

A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.

Synonyms

• ticking

Etymology 4

Noun

tick (plural ticks)

(UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.

Synonyms: credit, trust

Verb

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

(intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.

(transitive) To give tick; to trust.

Etymology 5

Noun

tick (plural ticks)

(obsolete, place names) A goat.

Usage notes

• Nowadays only found in place names. Fell out of common usage in the 13th century.

Source: Wiktionary

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Tick, n. Etym: [Abbrev. from ticket.]

Definition: Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.

Tick, v. i.

1. To go on trust, or credit.

2. To give tick; to trust.

Tick, n. Etym: [OE. tike, teke; akin to D. teek, G. zecke. Cf. Tike a tick.] (Zoöl.) (a) 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. (b) 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). Tick bean, a small bean used for feeding horses and other animals.

– Tick trefoil (Bot.), a name given to many plants of the leguminous genus Desmodium, which have trifoliate leaves, and joined pods roughened with minute hooked hairs by which the joints adhere to clothing and to the fleece of sheep.

Tick, n. Etym: [LL. techa, teca, L. theca case, Gr. Thesis.]

1. The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.

2. Ticking. See Ticking, n.

Tick, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ticked; p. pr. & vb. n. Ticking.] Etym: [Probably of imitative origin; cf. D. tikken, LG. ticken.]

1. To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.

2. To strike gently; to pat. Stand not ticking and toying at the branches. Latimer.

Tick, n.

1. A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.

2. Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check. Dickens.

3. (Zoöl.)

Definition: The whinchat; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.] Death tick. (Zoöl.) See Deathwatch.

Tick, v. t.

Definition: To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score. When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared each with the bill and ticked it off. Dickens.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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