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tick4    Audio Help   /tɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[tik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation,

–noun Chiefly British Informal.

1.	a score or account.

—Idiom

2.	on tick, on credit or trust: We bought our telly on tick.

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[Origin: 1635–45; short for ticket]

tick3    Audio Help   /tɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[tik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation,

–noun

1.	the cloth case of a mattress, pillow, etc., containing hair, feathers, or the like.

2.

ticking.

Also called bedtick.

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[Origin: 1425–75; late ME tikke, teke, tyke (c. D tijk, G Zieche) ≪ L téca, théca < Gk thké case]

tick2    Audio Help   /tɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[tik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation,

–noun

1.	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.

2.	sheeptick.

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[Origin: bef. 900; ME teke, tyke, OE ticia (perh. sp. error for tiica (i.e. tīca) or ticca); akin to LG tieke, G Zecke]

tick1    Audio Help   /tɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[tik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–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. a movement in the price of a stock, bond, or option. b. 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.

–verb (used without object)

7.	to emit or produce a tick, like that of a clock.

8.	to pass as with ticks of a clock: The hours ticked by.

–verb (used with object)

9.	to sound or announce by a tick or ticks: The clock ticked the minutes.

10.	to mark with a tick or ticks; check (usually fol. by off); to tick off the items on the memo.

—Verb phrase

11.	tick off, Slang. a. to make angry: His mistreatment of the animals really ticked me off. b. Chiefly British. to scold severely: The manager will tick you off if you make another mistake.

—Idiom

12.	what makes one tick, the motive or explanation of one's behavior: The biographer failed to show what made Herbert Hoover tick.

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[Origin: 1400–50; late ME tek little touch; akin to D tik a touch, pat, Norw tikka to touch or shove slightly. See tickle]

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