tick

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This is literally the difference between a tick and a tock.

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Quick take

a metallic tapping sound; "he counted the ticks of the clock"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tick gathered in one view.

noun

a metallic tapping sound; "he counted the ticks of the clock"

noun

any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals

noun

a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.; "as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tick.

noun

a metallic tapping sound; "he counted the ticks of the clock"

noun

any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals

noun

a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.; "as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name"

noun

a light mattress

verb

make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away"

verb

make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"

verb

sew; "tick a mattress"

verb

put a check mark on or near or next to; "Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items"; "mark off the units"

Example sentences

This is literally the difference between a tick and a tock.

I spent weeks if not months first playing it and then taking it apart bit-by-bit to see what made it tick.

Since trust is a big part of what makes Airbnb tick, I think it'd be worth the time to craft a profile shot that inspires such.

Don't try to understand how we work, what makes us tick, what turns us on, or the "secret" to making us more productive.

Add in tick elimination and we could let many more urban areas go fully wild.

So people read the text on the first one and then tick everything, which results in spyware being installed on their machine.

Kristianc was like, "It's not necessarily the most elegant use of language, but it's not a pause or a tick.

It's coming to terms with that helplessness and digging out pockets of jugaad from that black mass of helplessness is what makes India tick.

The entire process of a level ticking away and a new price being formed in liquid tick-wide names plays out in microseconds these days.

I was at the status meeting where they explained they didn't want to tick off film retailers - at which point it was obvious the company was doomed.

There's something in low-level C that makes your brain tick a slightly different way and how you build your creations in C rather than in other languages reflects that.

What we have here is a worthless parasite class -- a decadent nobility -- that has buried itself into our civilization like a tick.

For example there are windows where ticking one checkbox disables installation of a toolbar, but ticking the next one enables a different one.

It's much more complicated than any of the other escapements, and has whole books written about it, and yet is the simplest mechanism once you figure out how it ticks.

Ideally, you run simulations against unfiltered tick-by-tick data and additionally used bid and ask data series to factor in the spread.

Had he stayed for six months or a year, he'd have been able to figure out what makes India tick - India is the very embodiment of clever innovation to survive - it will ask you very tough questions and it will compel you to innovate, often rapidly, just in order to survive - not even succeed.

I don't think you'll get very accurate results from limiting yourself to the small fraction of developers who: - don't mind disclosing their salary in public - don't have any co-workers, employers, or clients who read this site - have a single fixed rate that they charge everybody - don't plan to change their rate in the future - make enough to not feel silly disclosing their rate in public - don't make so much that they'll feel like they're just bragging I'd personally be happy to tick a box, but I'm not going to quote my rate here.