ticketh

Verb (1)

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

1. To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock.
   • As 2020 ticked over into 2021, some 240 worksites were active on HS2's Phase 1 route between London and the West Midlands.2021 January 13, Richard Clinnick, “HS2 reaches key milestones and gears up for a busy 2021”, in Rail, page 12
2. To make a tick or checkmark.

   Synonyms:

   tick off, check, check off

3. (informal, intransitive) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
   • He took the computer apart to see how it ticked.
4. To strike gently; to pat.
   • Therefore you Preachers out vvith your ſvvords and ſtrike at the root; ſpeak againſt covetouſneſs, and cry out upon it. Stand not ticking and toying at the branches, nor at the boughs, for then there vvill be nevv boughs and branches ſpring again of them, but ſtrike at the root, […]1550, Hugh Latimer, “Sermon XIV. Preached before King Edward the Sixth and His Most Honourable Council, in His Court at Westminster, in the Year 1550.”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in...
5. (transitive) To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).

Verb (2)

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

1. (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.

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