The meaning of Ticking

Ticking – definition

noun
A strong, durable material, typically striped, used to cover mattresses.
Usage examples:
Even plain muslin or pillow ticking can look good if you spice it up with fancy ribbon.

verb
Mark (an item) with a tick or select (a box) on a form, questionnaire, etc. to indicate that something has been chosen, checked, approved, or dealt with.
Usage examples:
Just tick the appropriate box below
Synonims:
Mark Mark off Check off Indicate
verb
(of a clock or other mechanical device) make regular short, sharp sounds, typically one for every second of time that passes.
Usage examples:
I could hear the clock ticking
Synonims:
Click Clack Tick-tock Snick Plock Beat Tap

noun
A strong cotton material, usually with stripes, that is used to cover bed mattresses (= that you lie on) or pillows (= that you lay your head on)
Usage examples:
The mattresses and ticking for them were ordered from a local maker., ticking of the only sound in …

Ticking translation into English

Ticking: translate from English into Chinese

滴答作响

Ticking: translate from English into Dutch

Tikkende, Beddetijk

Ticking: translate from English into French

Tic-tac, Toile à matelas, Pointage

Ticking: translate from English into German

Ticken, Moment

Ticking: translate from English into Hindi

बजाते

Ticking: translate from English into Italian

Ticchettio, Tela da materassi

Ticking: translate from English into Korean

두색 이상의 줄무늬, 아마포, 무명베, 똑딱거림, 똑딱소리, 재깍거림, 재깍소리

Ticking: translate from English into Russian

Тиканье, Тик

Ticking: translate from English into Spanish

Tictac, Terliz

Word origin

Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘pat, touch’): probably of Germanic origin and related to Dutch tik (noun), tikken (verb) ‘pat, touch’. The noun was recorded in late Middle English as

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Ticking – similar words

ticked

verb
Mark (an item) with a tick or select (a box) on a form, questionnaire, etc. to indicate that something has been chosen, checked, approved, or dealt with.
Usage examples:
Just tick the appropriate box below

noun
A mark (✓) used to indicate that an item in a list or text is correct or has been chosen, checked, or dealt with.
Usage examples:
A map of the urus-martan area is black from ticks and marks indicating ordnance.

noun
A regular short, sharp sound, especially that made by a clock or watch.
Usage examples:
The comforting tick of the grandfather clock

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tick

noun
A mark (✓) used to indicate that an item in a list or text is correct or has been chosen, checked, or dealt with.
Usage examples:
A map of the urus-martan area is black from ticks and marks indicating ordnance.

verb
Mark (an item) with a tick or select (a box) on a form, questionnaire, etc. to indicate that something has been chosen, checked, approved, or dealt with.
Usage examples:
Just tick the appropriate box below

noun
A parasitic arachnid that attaches itself to the skin of a terrestrial vertebrate from which it sucks blood, leaving the host when sated. some species transmit diseases, including tularaemia and lyme disease.
Usage examples:
It takes 24 hours for a tick to transmit lyme disease, so rapid removal is important.

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Ticking synonims

beat

verb
Strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip.
Usage examples:
If we were caught we were beaten

noun
A main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry.
Usage examples:
The glissando begins on the second beat

adjective
Short for beatnik.

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check off

phrasal verb
Put a check mark on or near or next to

noun
A system in which an employer takes money from an worker's salary to pay for the worker to be a member of a trade union
Usage examples:
The employer agrees to the automatic check-off of all union dues and assessments as a condition of …

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clack

verb
Make a sharp sound or series of sounds as a result of a hard object striking another.
Usage examples:
He heard the sound of her heels clacking across flagstones

noun
A sharp sound or series of sounds.
Usage examples:
The clack of her high heels

noun
A short sound made when two hard objects hit
Usage examples:
Her shoes clacked on the tile floor.

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click

noun
A short, sharp sound as of a switch being operated or of two hard objects coming smartly into contact.
Usage examples:
She heard the click of the door

verb
Make or cause to make a short, sharp sound as of a switch being operated or of two hard objects coming smartly into contact.
Usage examples:
The key clicked in the lock and the door opened

noun
A short sound made when when one object hits or is fastened to another
Usage examples:
You’ll know your seat belt is fastened properly when you hear a click., liz and i really clicked, f…

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indicate

verb
Point out; show.
Usage examples:
Dotted lines indicate the text's margins

verb
To show or signal a direction or warning, or to make something clear
Usage examples:
[ t ] these statistics might indicate quality problems., [ + that clause ] she did not move or indi…

verb
To show something, point to something, or make something clear
Usage examples:
Indicate sth to sb retailers should indicate to the consumer the exact weight of the produce., the …

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mark

noun
A small area on a surface having a different colour from its surroundings, typically one caused by damage or dirt.
Usage examples:
The blow left a red mark down one side of her face

verb
Make a visible impression or stain on.
Usage examples:
He fingered the photograph gently, careful not to mark it

noun
(until the introduction of the euro in 2002) the basic monetary unit of germany, equal to 100 pfennig; a deutschmark.
Usage examples:
Germany spent billions of marks to save the french franc from speculators

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plock

verb
Make a short, low clicking sound.
Usage examples:
Her needle plocked in and out of her embroidery

noun
A short, low clicking sound.
Usage examples:
When a rock makes contact with the stomach there is a sickly plock sound

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snick

verb
Cut a small notch or incision in (something).
Usage examples:
The stem can be carefully snicked to allow the bud to swell

noun
A small notch or cut.
Usage examples:
He had several shaving snicks

verb
In sports, especially cricket, to hit the ball off the edge of the bat
Usage examples:
Carlton snicked the ball low and fast to lynch's right., the umpire couldn't hear the snick and, to…

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tap

noun
A device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled.
Usage examples:
She turned the cold tap on

verb
Draw liquid through the tap or spout of (a cask, barrel, or other container).
Usage examples:
Several barrels had been tapped to celebrate old victories

noun
A quick light blow, or the sound of such a blow.
Usage examples:
There was a sharp tap at the door

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tick-tock

noun
Used to represent the sound that a clock makes
Usage examples:
The only sound was the tick-tock of the clock., we could hear every tick tock of the clock, but the…

All meanings and translations of Tick-tock

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