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Definition tick
Etymology 1
From Middle English tyke, teke, from Old English ticia (“parasitic animal, tick”), from Proto-Germanic *t?kkô, suffixed variant of Proto-Germanic *t?gô, compare Dutch teek, German Zecke.
Noun
tick (plural ticks)
Etymology 2
From Middle English tek (“light touch, tap”)
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.
- (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A mark (?) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
- (birdwatching, slang) A lifer (bird seen by a birdwatcher for the first time) that is uninteresting and routine, thus merely a tick mark on a list.
- (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.
Etymology 3
From Middle English tike, probably from Middle Dutch, from Latin theca (“cover”).
Noun
tick (countable and uncountable, plural ticks)
- (uncountable) Ticking.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
Etymology 4
Clipping of ticket.
Noun
tick (plural ticks)
- (Britain, colloquial) Credit, trust.
Verb
tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked)
Etymology 5
From Middle English tik-, tic-, tike-, tiken- (in compounds), an unassibilated form of Middle English tiche, tichen (“young goat”), from Old English ti??en (“young goat; kid”), from Proto-Germanic *tikk?n? (“goatling”), diminutive of Proto-Germanic *tig? (“goat”). Cognate with regional German Zicke (“nanny goat”), from Ziege (“goat; nanny goat”).
Noun
tick (plural ticks)
- (obsolete, place names) A goat.
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