Defenition of the word tick
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Defenition of the word tick
- A small arachnid which lives on and sucks the blood of other animals including man.
- A mark made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
- To mark with a tick or ticks.
- make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away"
- any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
- a light mattress
- sew, as of mattresses; "tick a mattress"
- a metallic tapping sound; "he counted the ticks of the clock"
- make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
- 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"
- put a check mark on or next to; "Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items"
- sew; "tick a mattress"
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
- a metallic tapping sound
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- sew
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- make a clicking or ticking sound
Synonyms for the word tick
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- beat
- click
- retick
- ticking
- ticktack
- ticktock
Meronymys for the word tick
Hyponyms for the word tick
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- argasid
- hard tick
- ixodid
- receipt
- soft tick
- ticktock
- tictac
- tocktact
Hypernyms for the word tick
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- acarine
- go
- mark
- mattress
- run up
- sew
- sew together
- sound
- stitch
- verify
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