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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)

  1. A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

tick (plural ticks)

  1. A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
  2. A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
  3. (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
  4. (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
  5. (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
  6. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A mark (?) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
  7. (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.
  8. (ornithology) The whinchat.
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 or checkmark.
  3. (informal) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
  4. 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)

  1. (uncountable) Ticking.
  2. A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.

Etymology 4

Clipping of ticket.

Noun

tick (plural ticks)

  1. (Britain, colloquial) Credit, trust.
Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
  2. (transitive) To give tick; to trust.

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)

  1. (obsolete, place names) A goat.

Results 421 Words with the letters TICK

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9 letter words with the letters TICK 
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6 letter words with the letters TICK 
ANTICK 14
CATKIN 14
DETICK 14
KITSCH 15
PICKET 16
SCHTIK 15
SHTICK 15
STICKS 13
STICKY 15
STRICK 13
THICKS 15
TICKED 14
TICKER 13
TICKET 13
TICKLE 14
TRICKS 13
TRICKY 15
UPTICK 17
WICKET 16
5 letter words with the letters TICK 
STICK 12
THICK 14
TICKS 12
TRICK 12
4 letter words with the letters TICK 
TICK 11
3 letter words with the letters TICK 
ICK 10
KIT 7
TIC 6
2 letter words with the letters TICK 
IT 2
KI 6
TI 2

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