different between tick vs scorpion

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

Alternative forms

• skorpion (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English scorpioun, skorpioun, schorpion, schorpiun, partly from Old English s?orpio and partly from Anglo-Norman scorpïun, Old French scorpïon, escorpïon; all from Latin scorpio, ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (skorpíos). The cheerleading move is so called because of the resemblance of the raised foot to a scorpion's stinger.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk??.pi.?n/, /-p?.?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk??.pi.?n/

Noun

scorpion (plural scorpions)

1. Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones, related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a venomous sting in the end.
2. (historical) An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.
3. (figuratively) A very spiteful or vindictive person.
4. A cheerleading move in which one foot is pulled back and held up with both hands while the performer stands on the other foot.
5. (obsolete, biblical) A whip with points like a scorpion's tail.

   Coordinate term: scourge

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• arachnid
• Scorpio

Further reading

• scorpion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• scorpion at OneLook Dictionary Search
• scorpion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Latin scorpi?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??.pj??/

Noun

scorpion m (plural scorpions)

1. scorpion

Descendants

• ? Romanian: scorpion

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• picorons

Middle English

Noun

scorpion

1. Alternative form of scorpioun

Norman

Etymology

From Old French scorpion, from Latin scorpi?, scorpi?nem, from Ancient Greek ???????? (skorpíos).

Noun

scorpion m (plural scorpions)

1. (Jersey) mole cricket

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French scorpion, from Latin scorpio, from Ancient Greek ???????? (skorpíos). Doublet of scorpie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skor?pjon/

Noun

scorpion m (plural scorpioni)

1. scorpion

Declension