Synonyms for tick

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : tik

Phonetic Transcription : tɪk

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Définition of tick

Origin : parasitic blood-sucking arachnid animal, Old English ticia, from West Germanic *tik- (cf. Middle Dutch teke, Dutch teek, Old High German zecho, German Zecke "tick"), of unknown origin. French tique (mid-15c.), Italian zecca are Germanic loan-words.

noun clicking sound; one beat
noun checkmark
verb click

Example sentences :

What did it mean by beginning to tick so loudly all of a sudden?
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

The tick, tick of the watch was just audible in the stillness of the May morning.
Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens

I tick, tick, tick all day over this pesky business, but I don't get anywheres.
Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln

How many of them could get tick in London for a new rig-out?
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

In just two minutes' time to a tick, the price will be thirty.
Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic

That's the question; travelling is the one thing that can't be done on tick.
Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. » by Charles James Lever

But no sooner was there stillness than it began again—tick, tick, tick.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

Ordinarily the tick of a watch can be heard at a distance of thirty inches.
Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America

He'd been breakfastin' an' lunchin' ever since we'd come in, an' he was as full as a tick.
Extract from : « Soldiers Three, Part II. » by Rudyard Kipling

And yet the State is full; never been bled a drop; full as a tick.
Extract from : « Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) » by Constance Fenimore Woolson

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