Definitions for tick

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IPA: /tɪk/

Tick is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in tick (cikt).

Definitions for tick

noun

1. a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.
2. Chiefly British Informal. a moment or instant.
3. a small dot, mark, check, or electronic signal, as used to mark off an item on a list, serve as a reminder, or call attention to something.
4. Stock Exchange. a movement in the price of a stock, bond, or option. the smallest possible tick on a given exchange.
5. Manège. a jumping fault consisting of a light touch of a fence with one or more feet.
6. a small contrasting spot of color on the coat of a mammal or the feathers of a bird.
7. any of numerous bloodsucking arachnids of the order Acarina, including the families Ixodidae and Argasidae, somewhat larger than the related mites and having a barbed proboscis for attachment to the skin of warm-blooded vertebrates: some ticks are vectors of disease.
8. sheeptick.
9. the cloth case of a mattress, pillow, etc., containing hair, feathers, or the like.
10. ticking.
11. a score or account.

Idioms

1. what makes one tick, the motive or explanation of one's behavior:
2. on tick, on credit or trust:

Verb phrases

1. tick off, Slang. to make angry: Chiefly British. to scold severely:

verb (used with object)

1. to sound or announce by a tick or ticks:
2. to mark with a tick or ticks; check (usually followed by off); to tick off the items on the memo.

verb (used without object)

1. to emit or produce a tick, like that of a clock.
2. to pass as with ticks of a clock:

Origin of tick

1400-50; late Middle English tek little touch; akin to Dutch tik a touch, pat, Norwegian tikka to touch or shove slightly. See tickle

Examples for tick

In just two minutes' time to a tick, the price will be thirty.

I tick, tick, tick all day over this pesky business, but I don't get anywheres.

The Senate races in both states are tight as a tick, with no candidate hitting 50 percent in any of the polls.

How many of them could get tick in London for a new rig-out?

Sometimes they are almost amusing, like when a group of infantry soldiers filmed themselves dancing to Ke$ha's tick Tock.

Some kind of fly, gnit, gnat, tick or flea of some kind...the desert kind.

Once content to find a X-Men Calendar or a signed drawing of The tick, fans now expect—and get—a whole lot more.

The tick, tick of the watch was just audible in the stillness of the May morning.

What did it mean by beginning to tick so loudly all of a sudden?

As the days tick by and the balancers balance, real-world gay people will suffer.