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Tick

verb

(past & past part. ticked; pres. part. ticking)

1.

Make a clicking or ticking sound. Synonym: click.

2.

Make a sound like a clock or a timer. Synonyms: beat, ticktack, ticktock. "The grandfather clock beat midnight"

3.

Sew. Synonym: retick.

4.

Put a check mark on or near or next to. Synonyms: check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off. "Tick off the items" , "Mark off the units"

noun

1.

A metallic tapping sound. Synonym: ticking.

2.

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

3.

A mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.. Synonyms: check, check mark.

4.

A light mattress.

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... what a little busybody it is! May the frogs tick her! Must needs know everything. Lie down and sleep! (NAN lies down.) That's right! (Tucks her up.) That's right! There now, if you know too much ...

— Redemption and Two Other Plays • Leo Tolstoy et al

... America associated with rural areas or small towns and villages; manifests as fever, headache, and painfully swollen lymph nodes; disease progresses rapidly and without antibiotic treatment leads to pneumonic form with a death rate in excess of 50%. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever - tick-borne viral disease; infection may also result from exposure to infected animal blood or tissue; geographic distribution includes Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe; sudden onset of ...

— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... steam, was capable of providing was positively bewildering. They whirled through Miss Mapp's head like the autumn leaves which she admired so much, and she tried in vain to catch them all, and, when caught, to tick them off on her fingers. Each, moreover, furnished diverse and legitimate conclusions. For instance (taking ...

— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson

... goes by: and clocks still chime And stars are changing patterns in the dark, And watches tick, and over-puissant Time Benumbs the eager brain. The dogs that bark, The trains that roar and rattle in the night, The very cats that prowl, all quiet find And leave the darkness empty, silent quite: Sleep comes to ...

— Songs for a Little House • Christopher Morley

... was homespun and lowel.[HW: ?] We lived in a log house with a dirt floor and the cracks was chinked with mud and our bed was some poles nailed against the wall with two legs out on the dirt floor, and we pulled grass and put in a lowel[HW: ?] bed tick. My aunty would get old dresses, old coats, and old ...

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