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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophone: tic

Etymology 1

From Middle English tyke, teke, from Old English ticia (“parasitic animal, tick”), from Proto-Germanic *t?kkô, suffixed variant of Proto-Germanic *t?gô, compare Dutch teek, German Zecke.

Noun

tick (plural ticks)

1. A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

   Hypernyms: ectoparasite, arachnid

Derived terms

• detick
• tick bean
• tick trefoil

Translations

Further reading

• tick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• tick on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ixodida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Ixodida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From Middle English tek (“light touch, tap”)

Noun

tick (plural ticks)

1. A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.

2. A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.

3. (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
4. (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.

   Synonym: sec

5. (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
6. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Ireland) A mark (?) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.

   Synonym: checkmark

7. (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
8. (ornithology) The whinchat.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked)

1. To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
2. To make a tick or checkmark.
3. (informal) To work or operate, especially mechanically.

4. To strike gently; to pat.
   • 1550 (in Lent), Hugh Latimer, last sermon preached before King Edward VI

     Stand not ticking and toying at the branches.

5. (birdwatching) To add a bird to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English tike, probably from Middle Dutch, from Latin theca (“cover”).

Noun

tick (countable and uncountable, plural ticks)

1. (uncountable) Ticking.
2. A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.

Synonyms

• ticking

Derived terms

• ticking

Translations

Etymology 4

Clipping of ticket.

Noun

tick (uncountable)

1. (Britain, colloquial) Credit, trust.

   Synonyms: credit, trust

   • 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch. 42:

     Immediately he got any money he would pay his debt; if there was any over he would spend it; if there was not—and there seldom was—he would begin to go on tick again.

   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 190:

     He paid his mother-in-law rent and, when the baker or the butcher or the grocer wouldn't let her have any more on tick, he paid the bills.

Translations

Verb

tick (third-person singular simple present ticks, present participle ticking, simple past and past participle ticked)

1. (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
2. (transitive) To give tick; to trust.

Etymology 5

From Middle English tik-, tic-, tike-, tiken- (in compounds), an unassibilated form of Middle English tiche, tichen (“young goat”), from Old English ti??en (“young goat; kid”), from Proto-West Germanic *tikk?n (“goatling”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *tig? (“goat”). Cognate with regional German Zicke (“nanny goat”), from Ziege (“goat; nanny goat”).

Noun

tick (plural ticks)

1. (obsolete, place names) A goat.

Usage notes

• Nowadays only found in place names. Fell out of common usage in the 13th century.

Swedish

Noun

tick n

1. tick (quiet but sharp sound)

Declension

English

Etymology

From acaro- +? -logy, based on Ancient Greek ????? (ákari, “cheese mite, tick”) + -????? (-logía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æk????l?d??i/

Noun

acarology (uncountable)

1. (zoology) The study of ticks and mites.
   • 1999, Rodger David Mitchell (editor), Acarology IX, Volume 2: Symposia, Ohio Biological Survey, page xvii,

     The students and faculty of the acarology course were Don's life, and his example pushed us all to higher levels of achievement.

   • 2009, Lance A. Durden, Gary R. Mullen, Introduction, Gary R. Mullen, Lance A. Durden (editors), Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 1,

     General texts on acarology include works by Woolley (1987), Evans (1992), and Krantz and Walter (2009).

   • 2011, Marjorie A. Hoy, Agricultural Acarology, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 3,

     Acarology is the study of mites, or Acari or Acarina. It is a specialized field of study in the larger topics of invertebrate zoology and entomology. Because some mites are economically important pests of agriculture (crops, honey bees, stored food products, and livestock), are household pests, or are vectors of diseases of humans and livestock, acarology is often studied in entomology departments.

Derived terms

• acarologist

Related terms

• acaro-
• acarus

Translations

See also

• Acari (Translingual)
• Acarina (Translingual)

Further reading

• Acari on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Cayo Largo