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ticked and tied

ticked and tied is the simple past and past participle of tick and tie.

Meaning of tick and tie

Verb

tick and tie (third-person singular simple present ticks and ties, present participle ticking and tying, simple past and past participle ticked and tied)

  1. To make sure that every item in a ledger or in an inventory is accounted for and properly connected to other items to which it relates.
    • The leveling diagram can be used as a tick and tie list for the year 2000 team to ensure that no system or piece of hardware that should be fixed is overlooked.1997, James Edward Keogh, Solving the Year 2000 Problem, page 131

Questions about ticked and tied

What is ticked and tied the simple past and past participle of?
Ticked and tied is the simple past and past participle of tick and tie.

Words near ticked and tied in the dictionary

  1. tickbox
  2. tickboxes
  3. ticked
  4. ticked a lock
  5. ticked all the boxes
  6. ticked and tied
  7. ticked and toyed
  8. ticked away
  9. ticked by
  10. ticked down
  11. ticked off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ticked and tied (page history and authors); tick and tie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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