tick: Meaning and Definition of

tick

1. a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.
2. a moment or instant.
3. a small dot, mark, check, or electronic signal, as used to mark off an item on a list, serve as a reminder, or call attention to something.
1. a movement in the price of a stock, bond, or option.
2. the smallest possible tick on a given exchange.
5. a jumping fault consisting of a light touch of a fence with one or more feet.
6. a small contrasting spot of color on the coat of a mammal or the feathers of a bird.

1. to emit or produce a tick, like that of a clock.
2. to pass as with ticks of a clock: The hours ticked by.

1. to sound or announce by a tick or ticks: The clock ticked the minutes.
2. to mark with a tick or ticks; check (usually fol. by off&hasp;); to tick off the items on the memo.
3. His mistreatment of the animals really ticked me off.
1. to make angry:His mistreatment of the animals really ticked me off.
2. Chiefly Brit.to scold severely:The manager will tick you off if you make another mistake.
4. the motive or explanation of one's behavior: The biographer failed to show what made Herbert Hoover tick.

tick

1. any of numerous bloodsucking arachnids of the order Acarina, including the families Ixodidae and Argasidae, somewhat larger than the related mites and having a barbed proboscis for attachment to the skin of warm-blooded vertebrates: some ticks are vectors of disease.
2. See

tick

1. the cloth case of a mattress, pillow, etc., containing hair, feathers, or the like.
2. ticking. Also called

tick

1. a score or account.
2. on credit or trust: We bought our telly on tick.