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tick
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[ noun ] a metallic tapping sound
Synonyms Examples "he counted the ticks of the clock" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)With these gadgets - impressive to the gullible because of their flashing light_bulbs , ticks , and buzzes - he then carries_out a vicious medical con_game , capitalizing on people 's respect for the electrical and atomic wonders of our scientific age . (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)`` I paint the nothing '' , he said once to Franz_Kline and myself , `` the nothing that_is behind the something , the inexpressible , unpaintable ' tick ' in the unconscious , the ' spirit ' of the moment resting forever , suspended like a huge balloon , in non time '' . |
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[ verb ] make a clicking or ticking sound
Synonyms Examples "The clock ticked away" Used in print (Richard Sanders Allen, "When Fogg Flew the Mail"...)It ticked over smoothly , idling while Fogg exchanged mails with the armed messenger from Burlington at Fort_Ethan_Allen , and one from Montpelier and Barre at the St._John field . (Peter Wyden, "The Chances of Accidental War"...)In the command centers there are special clocks ready_to tick off the minutes elapsed since `` E hour '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make a sound like a clock or a timer
Examples "the clocks were ticking" "the grandfather clock beat midnight" Used in print (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)The clock on the mantel_piece was scandalized and ticked so loudly that he glanced at it over his shoulder and then quickly left the room . |
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[ noun ] (zoology) any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
Used in print (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)The clapping they made on the concrete interrupted him in the ecstatic pleasure he knew , so that he quickly released his hold on the goat and pretended to be examining its haunches for ticks . |
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[ noun ] a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
Synonyms Examples "as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name" |
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[ noun ] a light mattress
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