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51tick — 1. noun /tɪk/ a) A tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina. The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation. b) A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery. At midday,… …
52tick — I Australian Slang 1. check; 2. credit or trust: buy on tick ; 3. moment or instant: Hang on a tick II Cockney Rhyming Slang Tock III Inglish (Indian English) Dictionary Check off (not irritate); Please tick the the preferred time for your… …
53tick — Noun. 1. Credit. Often heard in the phrase on tick. E.g. I can never save money, so always buy electrical goods on tick. Informal 2. A moment, a second. E.g. I ll be with you in a tick. Informal …
54tick — n. a bloodsucking parasite belonging to the order of arthropods (the Acarina) that also includes the mites. Tick bites can cause serious skin lesions and occasionally paralysis (see Ixodes, Amblyomma), and certain tick species transmit typhus,… …
55tick — 1. Disagreeable person. 2. on tick On credit. 3. Moment. Half a tick. Please wait two ticks. 4. v. Function. ♣ I don t know what makes him tick. I do not understand how his mind, personality (etc.) works …
56tick — /tɪk/ noun 1. credit (informal) ● All the furniture in the house is bought on tick. 2. a mark on paper to show that something is correct or that something is approved ● Put a tick in the box marked ‘R’. 3. one step (up or down) in the price of a… …
57tick — 1. an informal unit of time equal to the length of one cycle of a clock. A tick of a computer s system clock, also called a jiffy, is usually 0.01 second. A tick in athletics is the smallest increment of time measured in a timed competition,… …
58Tick — Recorded in several spellings as shown below, this is an English surname. It has two possible origins. The first being an occupational name for a goatherd. This is a derivation from the Olde English pre 7th Century word ticcen meaning a kid goat …
59tick — Synonyms and related words: act, arachnid, arthropod, bank credit, be effective, be in action, beat, bedbug, beetle, birthmark, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, bloodsucker, blotch, book credit, borrowing power, brand, breath, bug, bump, cash… …
60Tick — 1. Absonderlichkeit, Angewohnheit, Eigenart, Eigenheit, Eigentümlichkeit, fixe Idee, Idée fixe, Marotte, Schrulle, Spleen; (ugs.): Mucke; (salopp): Macke; (ugs. abwertend): Fimmel. 2. Muskelzuckung, nervöse Zuckung; (Med.): Tic. 3. Anflug, ein… …
