Word.ws English Dictionary

ticks and ties

ticks and ties is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 ticks and ties

What is ticks and ties the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ticks and ties is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tick and tie.

Words near ticks and ties in the dictionary

  1. tickproof
  2. ticks
  3. ticks a lock
  4. ticks a lot of boxes
  5. ticks all the boxes
  6. ticks and ties
  7. ticks and toys
  8. ticks away
  9. ticks by
  10. ticks down
  11. ticks off

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ticks and ties (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ticks and ties.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ticks_and_ties. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.