Tick

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 movement in the price of a stock, bond, or option.
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 followed by off); to tick off the items on the memo.
Verb phrases
11.
tick off, Slang.

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

Idioms
12.
what makes one tick, the motive or explanation of one’s behavior:
The biographer failed to show what made Herbert Hoover tick.
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.
noun
1.
the cloth case of a mattress, pillow, etc., containing hair, feathers, or the like.
2.
ticking.
noun, Chiefly British Informal.
1.
a score or account.
Idioms
2.
on tick, on credit or trust:
We bought our telly on tick.
noun
1.
a recurrent metallic tapping or clicking sound, such as that made by a clock or watch
2.
(Brit, informal) a moment or instant
3.
a mark (✓) or dash used to check off or indicate the correctness of something
4.
(commerce) the smallest increment of a price fluctuation in a commodity exchange. Tick size is usually 0.01% of the nominal value of the trading unit
verb
5.
to produce a recurrent tapping sound or indicate by such a sound: the clock ticked the minutes away
6.
when tr, often foll by off. to mark or check (something, such as a list) with a tick
7.
(informal) what makes someone tick, the basic drive or motivation of a person
noun
1.
any of various small parasitic arachnids of the families Ixodidae (hard ticks) and Argasidae (soft ticks), typically living on the skin of warm-blooded animals and feeding on the blood and tissues of their hosts: order Acarina (mites and ticks) See also sheep tick (sense 1) related adjective acaroid
2.
any of certain other arachnids of the order Acarina
3.
any of certain insects of the dipterous family Hippoboscidae that are ectoparasitic on horses, cattle, sheep, etc, esp the sheep ked
noun
1.
(Brit, informal) account or credit (esp in the phrase on tick)
noun
1.
the strong covering of a pillow, mattress, etc
2.
(informal) short for ticking

tick 2 (tĭk)
n.

Any of numerous small bloodsucking parasitic arachnids of the families Ixodidae and Argasidae, many of which transmit febrile diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease.

Any of various usually wingless, louselike insects of the family Hippobosciddae that are parasitic on sheep, goats, and other animals.

tick
(tĭk)
Any of numerous small, parasitic arachnids of the suborder Ixodida that feed on the blood of animals. Like their close relatives the mites and unlike spiders, ticks have no division between cephalothorax and abdomen. Ticks differ from mites by being generally larger and having a sensory pit at the end of their first pair of legs. Many ticks transmit febrile diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease.
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tick 1

1. A jiffy (sense 1). 2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the simulation mechanism. In AI applications, this amount of time is often left unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is the ordering of events. This sort of AI simulation is often pejoratively referred to as “tick-tick-tick” simulation, especially when the issue of simultaneity of events with long, independent chains of causes is handwaved. 3. In the FORTH language, a single quote character.
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