different between ticket vs sticker

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?k?(r)/
• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Etymology 1

stick (“to pierce, to be fastened, to adhere”) +? -er (“agent”)

Noun

sticker (plural stickers)

1. Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
   • 1918, Decisions of the Courts of Pennsylvania (Supreme, Superior and Common Pleas), in Workmen's Compensation Cases, page 158:

     […] and I said to Mr. McCauley, whatever is the matter with your neck, it is all swelled up, and he said he got it in the mill; he said he had an arm load of wool and a sticker stuck him in the neck, here (indicating the right hand side of the neck just below the jaw).

   • 1982, Fernando Alegria, Fernando Alegría, Chilean Writers in Exile: Eight Short Novels

     The prisoner fell flat on his face. They dragged him again, this time towards the grove of calafates. They lifted him up there and they threw him in the middle of the bushes. The boy screamed. Thousands of stickers pierced into his flesh.

   • 2010, Valerie Estelle Frankel, From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend, McFarland (?ISBN), page 212:

     When the prickly pear stickers pierced their paws they howled with pain, but they kept running. Sinopa, who hated the fighting, had followed her brothers. She shot a magic arrow over their heads, which pushed the brothers to safety, […]

   • 2013, Cathy McDavid, Cowboy for Keeps, Harlequin (?ISBN), page 118:

     He toppled backward, landing on a particularly large cholla and crying out as hundreds of stickers pierced his flesh.

2. One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
   • 1930, The Strand Magazine (volume 80, page 321)

     He's a sticker. He was a goer to the end in all he did — and in Rugger outstandingly […]

3. An adhesive label or decal.
4. A price tag.
5. (by extension) The listed price (also sticker price).

6. (Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
7. (informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
8. (colloquial, dated) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.

   • "That's what I call a sticker for Wagg!"

9. A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation (also kiln sticker).
10. (music) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
11. A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
12. (US, politics) A paster.

Derived terms

• stickery
• Tipper sticker

Translations

References

• sticker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sticker in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “sticker” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.

Verb

sticker (third-person singular simple present stickers, present participle stickering, simple past and past participle stickered)

1. To apply one or more stickers to (something)
2. To mark as the sticker price

Etymology 2

stick (“sticky”, adjective) +? -er (“comparative”)

Adjective

sticker

1. (nonstandard, informal) comparative form of stick: more stick (stickier).

   A sticker type of glue that always stays sticky.

Anagrams

• restick, rickets, tickers

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sticker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?.k?r/
• Rhymes: -?k?r
• Hyphenation: stic?ker

Noun

sticker m (plural stickers, diminutive stickertje n)

1. sticker (adhesive decal)

   Synonym: plakplaatje

Derived terms

• bumpersticker
• prijssticker
• stickeralbum
• stickerboek
• stickervel
• waarschuwingssticker

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??tik?/

Adverb

sticker

1. about, approximately

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?tike?/, [es?t?i.ke?]

Noun

sticker m (plural stickers or sticker)

1. sticker

Swedish

Verb

sticker

1. present tense of sticka.