different between ticket vs raffle
ticket
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)
- A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
- A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
- A citation for a traffic violation.
- A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
- A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally technical support related).
- (informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
- A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
- (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.
- 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England
- (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.
- 1633, Shackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion
- A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
- A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
- (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."
- 1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith (page 124)
- (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.
- 1999, Doug Most, Always in Our Hearts (page 148)
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)
- To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
- 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)
- 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)
- ticket (admission, pass)
- receipt
- (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)
- prescription charge
- 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)
- 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)
- receipt
Swedish
Noun
ticket
- definite singular of tick
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raffle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æfl?/
- Rhymes: -æf?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English rafle, from Old French rafle, raffle (“dice game", also "plundering”), from rafler (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), from Frankish *raffol?n, from Proto-Germanic *hrap?n?, *hr?p?n? (“to scratch, touch, pluck out, snatch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb(h)-, *(s)kerb(h)- (“to turn, bend, shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch raffel (“dice game”), German raffen (“to snatch away, sweep off”), Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat, attack”).
Noun
raffle (plural raffles)
- A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
- He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
- (obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotgrave to this entry?)
Derived terms
- meat raffle
Translations
Verb
raffle (third-person singular simple present raffles, present participle raffling, simple past and past participle raffled)
- (transitive) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.
- They raffled off four gift baskets.
- (intransitive) To participate in a raffle.
- to raffle for a watch
Translations
Etymology 2
See raff.
Noun
raffle (uncountable)
- refuse; rubbish
Anagrams
- farfel, laffer
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