TICKET

ticket, just the ticket

(noun) the appropriate or desirable thing; “this car could be just the ticket for a small family”

slate, ticket

(noun) a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices

ticket

(noun) a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)

ticket

(noun) a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation)

tag, ticket

(noun) a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.

ticket

(verb) provide with a ticket for passage or admission; “Ticketed passengers can board now”

ticket, fine

(verb) issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty; “I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street”; “Move your car or else you will be ticketed!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

ticket (plural tickets or tix)

A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.

A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation

A citation for a traffic violation.

A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.

A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally technical support related).

(informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.

A solution to a problem; something that is needed.

(dated) A little note or notice.

(dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).

A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.

A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.

(dated) A visiting card.

Verb

ticket (third-person singular simple present tickets, present participle ticketing, simple past and past participle ticketed)

To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.

To mark with a ticket.

Anagrams

• ktetic

Source: Wiktionary

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Tick"et, n. Etym: [F. étiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette, or OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, n. & v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick credit.]

Definition: A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically: -- (a) A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local] He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors. Fuller.

(b) A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.]

Note: Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick. Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets On ticket for his mistress. J. Cotgrave.

(c) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket. (d) A label to show the character or price of goods. (e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like. (f) (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot. [U.S.] The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes. Sarah Franklin (1766). Scratched ticket, a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out.

– Split ticket, a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two or more parties.

– Straight ticket, a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party, without change.

– Ticket day (Com.), the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another. [Eng.] Simmonds.

– Ticket of leave, a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions. [Eng.] Simmonds.

– Ticket porter, a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified. [Eng.]

Tick"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ticketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ticketing.]

1. To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.

2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. [U.S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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