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ticks on

ticks on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tick on.

Meaning of tick on

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tick, on.; to continue ticking.
    • He shuts off the engine, which ticks on mechanically, cooling down.2003, Tom Wilkins, The Demise of The Color War Captain, page 121
  2. (figuratively, or units of time) To elapse;
    • Slowly the moments ticked on; once he murmured the name of the girl he loved.1912, Kate Everest, The Searchlight on the Throne: Reminiscences of an Ex-ambassador, page 132
  3. (broadly, figuratively) To continue; to keep occurring.
    • The banner flutters and love of the group / stifles the petty unmanly doubt / which ticks on, a liberal superstition.2012, Charles Kraszewski, Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz, page 68

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Ticks on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tick on.

Words near ticks on in the dictionary

  1. ticks and toys
  2. ticks away
  3. ticks by
  4. ticks down
  5. ticks off
  6. ticks on
  7. ticks over
  8. ticks past
  9. tickseed
  10. tickseeds
  11. tickspider

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