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tick English

Meaning tick meaning

What does tick mean?
Definitions in simple English

tick Noun

— A tick is a mark, used to show that something is right. The teacher put a tick on the correct answer. — A tick is a small bug. The dog was scratching because it had a tick in its ear. — A tick is a clicking noise that keeps going. It was very quiet, and the only sound she could hear was the tick of the old clock. — A tick is small line used to show a measure or a count.

tick Verb

— If something ticks, it is making clicking noises. The clocked ticked on as I waited. Its a ticking time-bomb. (It is like the clock on the bomb is ticking as time runs out.)

tick

— noun (= ticking) a metallic tapping sound he counted the ticks of the clock — verb (= click) make a clicking or ticking sound The clock ticked away — verb (= beat) make a sound like a clock or a timer the clocks were ticking the grandfather clock beat midnight — noun any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals — noun a light mattress — verb sew tick a mattress — noun (= check mark, check) 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 — verb (= check, mark, mark off, tick off) put a check mark on or near or next to Please check each name on the list tick off the items mark off the units

Synonyms tick synonyms

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tick English » English

click mite check mark ticktock ticking checkmark check mark ticktack retick insect flea crack beat tick off snap score record note mark off knock draw a line clank chick check off acarus wood tick tocktact tinkle tictac ticket tick-tock tick-tack throb tap tag soft tick short sound rattle quirk pock pillow pencil parasite memorandum memo marker louse little bird line

Topics tick topics

What do people use tick to talk about?
Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Insect
Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Spider
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Types of sounds

Conjugation tick conjugation

How do you conjugate tick?

tick · verb

Examples tick examples

How do I use tick in a sentence?

Simple sentences

There's a tick on the dog.
I like to take things apart to see what makes them tick.
I just can't work out what makes Tom tick.
I hear the buzz of a fan, the drip of the faucet, the hum of the fridge, the tick of the clock, the whoosh of cars passing by the house.
It is so quiet one can hear the the clock tick behind the wall.
It is so quiet you can hear the clock tick behind the wall.

Movie subtitles

Tick, tick, tick.
Getting them together to find out what makes different people tick.
Work behind a bar, you get to know what makes people tick.
Tick-tock, tick-tock. Listen to the big tick-tock.
Everybody's got something that makes them tick but I can't make you out at all.
He's tight as a tick. Look at him.
But now when he's about, he warns ya, as ya might say, with his tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.
Whoever I am, kiddo. I'm what makes you tick.
It doesn't seem to ring or tick at all. - Hey!
I'm sorry, but I've already subscribed to Click, Pick, Hick, Tick Gaff, Staff, Laugh and Chaff.
I was watching it tick away like a rare and delicate clock.
Who and what does it tick for?
Now you're gonna get into people's heads and find out what makes them tick?
Listen, I'll call the airline and re-route your tick et.
They're trying to break me down, see what makes me tick.
Would you mind showing me what makes my client tick?
Tick, sir?
Advance tick ets may be purchased at the advance tick et windows in the lobby as you leave the park.
Three yards tick. three yards tock.
Half a tick.
I really tried to figure out what makes you tick, Max.
What makes all of you tick.
There are 2,081,376,000 seconds in the average man's life, each tick of the clock the beat of a heart, and yet you sit here uselessly ticking your lives away. because certain members are not on schedule.
You carry on. I'll be there in a tick.
I shan't be a tick.
You can't play tick-tack-toe with your feelings.
It could tick until Christmas and not even set off a firecracker!
Last summer they used to go sailing together. and when they were out of sight. tick, tock!
Hang on a tick.
You set them out forthe boss and you. through tick and ticker. All right, let me ask you something.
I wanna know what makes that thing tick.

News and current affairs

For example, white-tailed deer living in northwestern Costa Rica host six species of tick.
But Karl Marx and Alexis de Tocqueville, the two great social analysts of the nineteenth century, knew better what makes people tick, and what makes societies change.
Real life often seems simply to tick on like that, regardless of headline news and momentous events.
But the role of a number of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) has been more significant than is generally recognized, and what makes the best of them tick is worth exploring.

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