different between reservation vs ticket

English

Etymology

From Middle French reservation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z??ve???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???z??ve???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reservation (countable and uncountable, plural reservations)

1. The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.

   The committee authorised the reservation of funds.

   1. The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
   2. The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
2. Something that is withheld or kept back.
3. (often in the plural) A limiting qualification regarding certainty; a doubt.

   I have reservations about your intentions.

4. (US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
5. An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
6. (Britain) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.

   A vehicle crashed through the central reservation into the path of oncoming traffic.

7. (India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).

Synonyms

• (advance arrangement): booking
• (central reservation, motorway lane separator): median, median strip
• (Indian reservation): reserve, res, rez

Related terms

• mental reservation
• off the reservation
• reserve

Translations

Anagrams

• veratrosine

Middle French

Noun

reservation f (plural reservations)

1. reservation (limiting qualification)

Descendants

• English: reservation
• French: réservation

English

Etymology

From Middle English ticket, from Old French etiquet m, *estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikan?, *stik?n?, *staikijan? (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t?k?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?k?t/
• Rhymes: -?k?t

Noun

ticket (plural tickets)

1. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
2. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
3. A citation for a traffic violation.
4. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
5. A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally technical support related).
6. (informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.

7. A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
8. (dated) A little note or notice.
   • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England

     He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.

9. (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
   • 1633, Shackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion

     Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.

10. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
11. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
12. (dated) A visiting card.
    • 1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith (page 124)

      I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.

    • 1899, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading

      "Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it."

13. (law enforcement slang) A warrant.
    • 1999, Doug Most, Always in Our Hearts (page 148)

      […] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: tiket
• ? Assamese: ???? (tikot)
• ? Bengali: ????? (?iki?), ????? (?iki?), ???? (?ikô?)
• ? Catalan: tiquet
• ? Dutch: ticket
  • ? Indonesian: tiket
• ? French: ticket
• ? German: Ticket
• ? Hindustani:

  Hindi: ???? (?ika?)

  Urdu: ???? (?ika?)

• ? Irish: ticéad
• ? Italian: ticket
• ? Japanese: ???? (chiketto)
• ? Korean: ?? (tiket)
• ? Malay: tiket
• ? Maori: t?keti
• ? Marathi: ????? (tik??)
• ? Nepali: ???? (?ika?)
• ? Oriya: ???? (?ikô?ô)
• ? Portuguese: ticket, tiquete
• ? Scottish Gaelic: tiogaid
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ????? (tiket)
• ? Spanish: ticket, tique, tiquete
• ? Tagalog: tiket
• ? Tamil: ????????? (?ikka??u)
• ? Tibetan: ??????? (?i ka si)

Translations

See also

• ticket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ticket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

ticket (third-person singular simple present tickets, present participle ticketing, simple past and past participle ticketed)

1. To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
2. To mark with a ticket.

   to ticket goods in a retail store

Derived terms

• ticket off

Translations

Anagrams

• ktetic

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.k?t/
• Hyphenation: tic?ket

Noun

ticket n or m (plural tickets, diminutive ticketje n)

1. ticket or voucher

Derived terms

• vliegticket

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: tiket

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.k?/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. ticket (admission, pass)
2. receipt
3. (Quebec) ticket (traffic citation)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ticket” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English ticket. Doublet of etichetta.

Noun

ticket m (invariable)

1. prescription charge
2. ticket stub (especially at a horserace)

Further reading

• ticket in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t??i.ket??/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. ticket (slip entitling the holder to something)

   Synonym: bilhete

Spanish

Etymology

From English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tiket/, [?t?i.ket?]

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. receipt

Swedish

Noun

ticket

1. definite singular of tick