tick

tick is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.
2. intransitive verb. To go on trust, or credit.
3. intransitive verb. To give tick; to trust.
4. noun. Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs.
5. noun. Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep).
6. noun. The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.
7. noun. Ticking. See Ticking, n.
8. intransitive verb. To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.
9. intransitive verb. To strike gently; to pat.
10. noun. A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.
11. noun. Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check.
12. noun. The whinchat; -- so called from its note.
13. transitive verb. To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
14. noun. any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
15. noun. a light mattress
16. noun. a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.

    "as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name"

    Synonyms: check

17. noun. a metallic tapping sound

    "he counted the ticks of the clock"

    Synonyms: ticking

18. verb. put a check mark on or near or next to

    "Please check each name on the list"

    "tick off the items"

    Synonyms: check, mark

19. verb. sew

    "tick a mattress"

    Synonyms: retick

20. verb. make a sound like a clock or a timer

    "the clocks were ticking"

    "the grandfather clock beat midnight"

    Synonyms: beat, ticktack, ticktock

21. verb. make a clicking or ticking sound

    "The clock ticked away"

    Synonyms: click

Synonyms

check, ticking, mark, retick, beat, ticktack, ticktock, click

Common word forms

ticks, ticked, ticken, ticker, tickly, ticking, tickless

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