tick

a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.

Chiefly British Informal.��a moment or instant.

a small dot, mark, check, or electronic signal, as used to mark off an item on a list, serve as a reminder, or call attention to something.

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1. a movement in the price of a stock, bond, or option.

2. the smallest possible tick on a given exchange.

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a small contrasting spot of color on the coat of a mammal or the feathers of a bird.

to emit or produce a tick, like that of a clock.

to pass as with ticks of a clock.

to sound or announce by a tick or ticks.

to mark with a tick or ticks; check (usually followed byoff ); to tick off the items on the memo.

any of numerous bloodsucking arachnids of the order Acarina, including the families Ixodidae and Argasidae, somewhat larger than the related mites and having a barbed proboscis for attachment to the skin of warm-blooded vertebrates: some ticks, as the deer tick, are vectors of disease.

sheeptick.

the cloth case of a mattress, pillow, etc., containing hair, feathers, or the like.

ticking.