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ticking and tying

ticking and tying is the present participle and gerund 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 ticking and tying

What is ticking and tying the present participle and gerund of?
Ticking and tying is the present participle and gerund of tick and tie.

Words near ticking and tying in the dictionary

  1. tickin'
  2. ticking
  3. ticking a lock
  4. ticking all the boxes
  5. ticking and toying
  6. ticking and tying
  7. ticking away
  8. ticking bomb
  9. ticking bombs
  10. ticking by
  11. ticking clock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ticking and tying (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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