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Definitions for Ticking

[1] a strong cotton fabric, usually twilled, used especially in making cloth ticks.
[2] a similar cloth in satin weave or Jacquard, used especially for mattress covers.
[3] a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.
[4] Chiefly British Informal . a moment or instant.
[5] 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.
[6] Stock Exchange . a movement in the price of a stock, bond, or option. the smallest possible tick on a given exchange.
[7] Manège . a jumping fault consisting of a light touch of a fence with one or more feet.
[8] a small contrasting spot of color on the coat of a mammal or the feathers of a bird.
[9] to emit or produce a tick, like that of a clock.
[10] to pass as with ticks of a clock: The hours ticked by.
[11] to sound or announce by a tick or ticks: The clock ticked the minutes.
[12] to mark with a tick or ticks; check (usually followed by off ); to tick off the items on the memo.
[13] tick off , Slang . to make angry: His mistreatment of the animals really ticked me off. Chiefly British . to scold severely: The manager will tick you off if you make another mistake.
[14] a strong cotton fabric, often striped, used esp for mattress and pillow covers
[15] a recurrent metallic tapping or clicking sound, such as that made by a clock or watch
[16] British informal a moment or instant
[17] a mark (✓) or dash used to check off or indicate the correctness of something
[18] commerce the smallest increment of a price fluctuation in a commodity exchange. Tick size is usually 0.01% of the nominal value of the trading unit
[19] to produce a recurrent tapping sound or indicate by such a sound the clock ticked the minutes away
[20] (when tr, often foll by off ) to mark or check (something, such as a list) with a tick
[21] what makes someone tick informal the basic drive or motivation of a person
[22] any of various small parasitic arachnids of the families Ixodidae (hard ticks ) and Argasidae (soft ticks ), typically living on the skin of warm-blooded animals and feeding on the blood and tissues of their hosts: order Acarina (mites and ticks) See also sheep tick (def. 1) Related adjective: acaroid
[23] any of certain other arachnids of the order Acarina
[24] any of certain insects of the dipterous family Hippoboscidae that are ectoparasitic on horses, cattle, sheep, etc, esp the sheep ked
[25] British informal account or credit (esp in the phrase on tick )
[26] the strong covering of a pillow, mattress, etc
[27] informal short for ticking

Words related to Ticking

tap, beat, pulsate, clack, thump, ticktock

Words nearby Ticking

ticket scalper, ticket tout, tickets, tickety-boo, tickey, ticking, ticklace, tickle, tickle one's fancy, tickle the ivories, tickled pink

Origin of Ticking

11400–50; late Middle English tek little touch; akin to Dutch tik a touch, pat, Norwegian tikka to touch or shove slightly. See tickle

Words that may be confused with Ticking

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, ticktic, tick

Word origin for Ticking

C15: probably from Middle Dutch tīke; related to Old High German ziecha pillow cover, Latin tēca case, Greek thēkē

Synonyms for Ticking

beat, clack, pulsate, tap, thump, ticktock