tick

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɪk/ Rhymes: -ɪk Homophone: tic === Etymology 1 === From Middle English tyke, teke, from Old English ticia (“parasitic animal, tick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīkō, compare Dutch teek, German Zecke. ==== Noun ==== tick (plural ticks) A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida. Hypernyms: arachnid < arthropod < bug (broad sense) < invertebrate < animal < creature, critter Coordinate terms: (other arachnids) mite, spider, scorpion; (other arthropods) insect ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Further reading ==== tick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Ixodida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Ixodida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons === Etymology 2 === From Middle English *tik, tek, tyche (“light touch, tap”), from the verb (see Etymology 3 below). Compare Dutch tik (“a pat, tap”), Middle High German zic (“a slight touch”). ==== Noun ==== tick (plural ticks) A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery. A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement. (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency). (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second. Synonyms: jiffy, sec, tic; see also Thesaurus:moment (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect. (gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions. (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement. Synonym: checkmark (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds. (ornithology) A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra). A tap or light touch. A slight speck. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === From Middle English ticken, tiken, probably from Old English *ticcian (“to touch, tap”), from Proto-West Germanic *tikkōn (“to touch, tap”), cognate with German zecken (“to nudge, poke, jab”). Doublet of tig. ==== Verb ==== tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked) To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock. To make a tick or checkmark. (informal, intransitive) To work or operate, especially mechanically. To strike gently; to pat. (birdwatching, transitive) To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 4 === From Middle English tike, probably from Middle Dutch tike and Middle Low German teke, both ultimately from Latin theca (“cover”). Compare also German Zieche (“duvet, pillowcase”). ==== Noun ==== tick (countable and uncountable, plural ticks) (uncountable) Ticking. A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling. ===== Synonyms ===== ticking ===== Derived terms ===== ticking ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 5 === Clipping of ticket. ==== Noun ==== tick (uncountable) (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust. Synonyms: credit, trust ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked) (intransitive) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)To go on trust, or credit. (transitive) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)To give tick; to trust. === Etymology 6 === From Middle English tik-, tic-, tike-, tiken- (in compounds), an unassibilated form of Middle English tiche, tichen (“young goat”), from Old English tiċċen (“young goat; kid”), from Proto-West Germanic *tikkīn (“goatling”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *tigā (“goat”). Cognate with regional German Zicke (“nanny goat”), from Ziege (“goat; nanny goat”). ==== Noun ==== tick (plural ticks) (obsolete, place names) A goat. ===== Usage notes ===== Nowadays only found in place names. Fell out of common usage in the 13th century. == German == === Pronunciation === === Verb === tick singular imperative of ticken == Swedish == === Etymology === Deverbal from ticka. === Noun === tick n tick (quiet but sharp sound) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === tick in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker == Yola == === Noun === tick alternative form of titch === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 130