different between tick vs annoy

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

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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 Middle English annoien, anoien, enoien, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman anuier, Old French enuier (“to molest, harm, tire”), from Late Latin inodi? (“cause aversion, make hateful”, verb), from the phrase in odi? (“hated”), from Latin odium (“hatred”). Doublet of ennui. Displaced native Middle English grillen (“to annoy, irritate”), from Old English grillan (see grill).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

annoy (third-person singular simple present annoys, present participle annoying, simple past and past participle annoyed)

1. (transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
   • 1691, Matthew Prior, Pastoral to Dr. Turner, Bishop of Ely

     Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?

2. (intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
3. (transitive) To molest; to harm; to injure.

   to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade

   • tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them

Synonyms

• (to disturb or irritate) bother, bug, hassle, irritate, pester, nag, irk
• See also Thesaurus:annoy

Antonyms

• please
• See also Thesaurus:annoy

Related terms

Translations

Noun

annoy (plural annoys)

1. (now rare, literary) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
   • 1532 (first printing), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose:

     I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / [...] In such annoy contynuely.

   • c. 1610, John Fletcher, “Sleep”:

     We that suffer long annoy / Are contented with a thought / Through an idle fancy wrought: / O let my joys have some abiding!
2. (now rare, literary) That which causes such a feeling.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, King Rchard III, IV.2:

     Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy [...].

   • 1872, Robert Browning, "Fifine at the Fair, V:

     The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy [...].

Synonyms

• (both senses) annoyance

Translations

References

• annoy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• annoy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Yonan, anyon, noyan, yanno