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a strong brief sound usually heard from a timepiece
tick, ticking(noun)a metallic tapping sound
"he counted the ticks of the clock"
tick(noun)any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
check mark, check, tick(noun)a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
"as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name"
tick(verb)a light mattress
click, tick(verb)make a clicking or ticking sound
"The clock ticked away"
tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat(verb)make a sound like a clock or a timer
"the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
tick, retick(verb)sew
"tick a mattress"
check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off, tick(verb)put a check mark on or near or next to
"Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items"; "mark off the units"
to specify one after anotherticked off everything she would need to buy while her daughter wrote the items down on a list
to criticize (someone) so as to correct a faultshe royally ticked the babysitter off for letting the child play outside unsupervised
to make angryit really ticks me off when someone says something like that
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