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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

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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

Originally tricker, from Dutch trekker (“pull”, noun, as in drawer-pull, bell-pull), from Dutch trekken (“to drag, draw, pull”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t????/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

trigger (plural triggers)

1. (firearms) A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.

2. A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
3. An event that initiates others, or incites a response.

4. A concept or image that upsets somebody by sparking a negative emotional response.

5. (psychology) An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or action in a person.
6. (music) An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
7. (music) A device that manually lengthens (or sometimes shortens) the slide or tubing of a brass instrument, allowing the pitch range to be altered while playing.
8. (electronics) A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
9. (databases) An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.
10. (online gaming) A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command.
11. (archaic) A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.

Derived terms

• trigger finger
• trigger guard
• trigger-happy
• triggerish
• triggerless
• triggerlike
• triggerman
• triggernometry
• trigger point
• trigger pricing
• trigger warning
• triggerwoman

Related terms

• trek

Translations

Verb

trigger (third-person singular simple present triggers, present participle triggering, simple past and past participle triggered)

1. (transitive) To fire a weapon.

   Synonyms: activate, detonate, fire
2. (transitive) To initiate something.

   Synonyms: activate, initiate
3. (transitive, figuratively) To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone).

   Synonym: push someone's buttons
4. (transitive, figuratively, by extension of above, Internet slang) To intentionally offend someone, especially by expressing radical or edgy opinions.

5. (intransitive, especially electronics) To activate; to become active.

Usage notes

• Among movements to promote mental health awareness, especially concerning autism; epilepsy; and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), using the to spark an esp. negative emotional response in sense for lesser matters is often considered offensive to and exclusive of those who regularly deal with triggers that aggravate their symptoms (meltdowns; seizures, anxiety attacks; etc.).

Descendants

• ? German: triggern

Translations

Further reading

• trigger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• database trigger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trigger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• trigger in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• trigger at OneLook Dictionary Search