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10 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tick \Tick\, n. 1. A quick, audible beat as of a clock. 2. Any small mark intended to direct attention to something or to serve as a check. --Dickens. 3. (Zo["o]l.) The whinchat; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.] {Death tick}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Deathwatch}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tick \Tick\, v. t. To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score. When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared each with the bill and ticked it off --Dickens. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tick \Tick\, n. [Abbrev. from ticket.] Credit; trust; as to buy on or upon tick. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tick \Tick\, v. i. 1. To go on trust, or credit. 2. To give tick; to trust. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tick \Tick\, n. [OE. tike, teke; akin to D. teek, G. zecke Cf {Tike} a tick.] (Zo["o]l.) a Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to and suck the blood of cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs. b Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under {Bird}) and sheep tick (see under {Sheep}). {Tick bean}, a small bean used for feeding horses and other animals. {Tick trefoil} (Bot.), a name given to many plants of the leguminous genus {Desmodium}, which have trifoliate leaves, and joined pods roughened with minute hooked hairs by which the joints adhere to clothing and to the fleece of sheep. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tick \Tick\, n. [LL. techa, teca, L. theca case, Gr ?, fr ? to put See {Thesis}.] 1. The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling. 2. Ticking. See {Ticking}, n. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tick \Tick\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ticked}; p. pr & vb n. {Ticking}.] [Probably of imitative origin; cf D. tikken, LG ticken.] 1. To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does to beat 2. To strike gently; to pat. Stand not ticking and toying at the branches. --Latimer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tick n 1: a metallic tapping sound; "he counted the ticks of the clock" [syn: {ticking}] 2: any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals 3: a light mattress v 1: make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away" [syn: {click}] 2: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" [syn: {ticktock}, {ticktack}, {beat}] 3: sew, as of mattresses; "tick a mattress" [syn: {retick}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: tick n. 1. A {jiffy} (sense 1). 2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the simulation mechanism. In AI applications, this amount of time is often left unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is the ordering of events. This sort of AI simulation is often pejoratively referred to as `tick-tick-tick' simulation, especially when the issue of simultaneity of events with long, independent chains of causes is {handwave}d. 3. In the FORTH language, a single quote character. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: tick 1. A {jiffy} (sense 1). 2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the simulation mechanism. In AI applications, this amount of time is often left unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is the ordering of events. This sort of AI simulation is often pejoratively referred to as "tick-tick-tick" simulation, especially when the issue of simultaneity of events with long, independent chains of causes is {handwave}d. 3. In the FORTH language, a single quote character. [{Jargon File}]
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