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Definition of Tick

1. Verb. Make a clicking or ticking sound. "The clock ticked away"

2. Noun. A metallic tapping sound. "He counted the ticks of the clock"

3. Verb. Make a sound like a clock or a timer. "The grandfather clock beat midnight"

4. Noun. Any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals.

5. Verb. Sew. "Tick a mattress"

6. Noun. A mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.. "As he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name"

7. Verb. Put a check mark on or near or next to. "Mark off the units"

8. Noun. A light mattress.

Definition of Tick

1. n. Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.

2. v. i. To go on trust, or credit.

3. n. 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.

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

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

6. n. A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.

7. v. t. To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.

Definition of Tick

1. Noun. (context: fauna) A tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina. ¹

2. Noun. A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery. ¹

3. Noun. A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement. ¹

4. Noun. (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency). ¹

5. Noun. (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second. ¹

6. Noun. (Australian NZ British) a mark ((unicode ?)) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement; checkmark ¹

7. Verb. To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock. ¹

8. Verb. To make a tick mark. ¹

9. Noun. Ticking. ¹

10. Noun. A sheet that wraps around a mattress. ¹

11. Noun. (UK colloquial) Credit, trust. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tick

1. to make a recurrent clicking sound [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Tick

1. 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 colour. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs. 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, 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. 3. The whinchat; so called from its note. Death tick. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tick

ticed ticement ticements tices tich tichel tichels tiches tichier tichiest

tichodrome tichorrhine tichy ticilimumab ticing tick (current term) tick-and-flick tick-borne disease tick-borne diseases tick-borne encephalitis

tick-borne encephalitis virus tick-borne fever tick-borne rickettsioses of the eastern hemisphere tick-borne virus tick-tack-toe tick-tock tick-weed tick and flick tick away tick bite

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