different between ticket vs number

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

English

Alternative forms

• nummer (dialectal)
• numbre (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English number, nombre, numbre, noumbre, from Anglo-Norman noumbre, Old French nombre, from Latin numerus (“number”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to divide”). Compare Saterland Frisian Nummer, Nuumer, West Frisian nûmer, Dutch nummer (“number”), German Nummer (“number”), Danish nummer (“number”), Swedish nummer (“number”), Icelandic númer (“number”). Replaced Middle English ?etæl and rime, more at tell, tale and rhyme.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?m?b?r, IPA^(key): /?n?mb?/
• (General American) enPR: n?m?b?r, IPA^(key): /?n?mb?/
• Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
• Hyphenation: num?ber

Noun

number (plural numbers)

1. (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.

2. (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.

   Synonyms: scalar, (obsolete) rime

3. (countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.

4. (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or ?). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.

5. Quantity.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates

     Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.

6. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.

7. (countable, informal) A telephone number.
   • 2001, E. Forrest Hein, The Ruach Project, Xulon Press, page 86:

     “[...] I wonder if you could get hold of him and have him call me here at Interior. I’m in my office, do you have my number?”

   • 2007, Lindsey Nicole Isham, No Sex in the City: One Virgin's Confessions on Love, Lust, Dating, and Waiting, Kregel Publications, page 111:

     When I agreed to go surfing with him he said, “Great, can I have your number?” Well, I don’t give my number to guys I don’t know.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Marsha's work number is 555-8986.

8. (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.

   Synonym: numeral

9. (now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
10. (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.

11. (countable, informal) A person.
    • 1968, Janet Burroway, The dancer from the dance: a novel, Little, Brown, page 40:

      I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number."

    • 1988, Erica Jong, Serenissima, Dell, page 214:

      "Signorina Jessica," says the maid, a saucy little number, "your father has gone to his prayers and demands that you come to the synagogue at once [...]"

    • 2005, Denise A. Agnew, Kate Hill & Arianna Hart, By Honor Bound, Ellora's Cave Publishing, page 207:

      He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.

12. (countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one.
    • 2007, Cesca Martin, Agony Angel: So You Think You've Got Problems..., Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 134:

      The trouble was I was wearing my backless glittering number from the night before underneath, so unless I could persuade the office it was National Fancy Dress Day I was doomed to sweat profusely in bottle blue.

    • 2007, Lorelei James, Running with the Devil, Samhain Publishing, Ltd, page 46:

      "I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky."

13. (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
    • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, page 12:

      Back at his place again, Doc rolled a number, put on a late movie, found an old T-shirt, and sat tearing it up into short strips […]

14. (dated) An issue of a periodical publication.

    the latest number of a magazine

15. A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
    • 1980, May 10, Al King "Braves travel to New England with reputation", The Indiana Gazette

      Despite last week's woes, the Braves still sport numbers that would make Christie Brinkley blush.

16. (informal, always indefinite) A large amount of damage

    • (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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Descendants

Translations

Verb

number (third-person singular simple present numbers, present participle numbering, simple past and past participle numbered)

1. (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).

   Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.

2. (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.

   I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.

See also

• (grammatical numbers): singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural

References

• number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Derived terms

• number among

Translations

See also

• Wiktionary’s Appendix of numbers

Etymology 2

From numb + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?m'?, IPA^(key): /?n?m?/
• (US): enPR: n?m'?r, IPA^(key): /?n?m?/
• Hyphenation: num?ber

Adjective

number

1. comparative form of numb: more numb

Anagrams

• numbre, renumb

Estonian

Etymology

From German Nummer. The added -b- is analoguous to kamber and klamber.

Noun

number (genitive numbri, partitive numbrit)

1. number

Declension

Middle English

Noun

number

1. Alternative form of nombre

Papiamentu

Etymology

From English number.

An analogy of the Papiamentu word nòmber "name".

Noun

number

1. number