| 单词 | tick |
| 释义 | tick tick1 /tik/, n. 1. a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock. 2. Chiefly Brit. Informal. a moment or instant. 3. 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. 4. Stock Exchange. a. a movement in the price of a stock, bond, or option. b. the smallest possible tick on a given exchange. 5. Manège. a jumping fault consisting of a light touch of a fence with one or more feet. 6. a small contrasting spot of color on the coat of a mammal or the feathers of a bird. v.i. 7. to emit or produce a tick, like that of a clock. 8. to pass as with ticks of a clock: The hours ticked by. v.t. 9. to sound or announce by a tick or ticks: The clock ticked the minutes. 10. to mark with a tick or ticks; check (usually fol. by off); to tick off the items on the memo. 11. tick off, Slang. a. to make angry: His mistreatment of the animals really ticked me off. b. Chiefly Brit. to scold severely: The manager will tick you off if you make another mistake. 12. what makes one tick, the motive or explanation of one's behavior: The biographer failed to show what made Herbert Hoover tick. [1400-50; late ME tek little touch; akin to D tik a touch, pat, Norw tikka to touch or shove slightly. See TICKLE] tick2 /tik/, n. 1. 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 are vectors of disease. 2. See sheeptick. [bef. 900; ME teke, tyke, OE ticia (perh. sp. error for tiica (i.e. tica) or ticca); akin to LG tieke, G Zecke] tick3 /tik/, n. 1. the cloth case of a mattress, pillow, etc., containing hair, feathers, or the like. 2. ticking. Also called bedtick. [1425-75; late ME tikke, teke, tyke (c. D tijk, G Zieche) << L teca, theca < Gk théke case] tick4 /tik/, n. Chiefly Brit. Informal. 1. a score or account. 2. on tick, on credit or trust: We bought our telly on tick. [1635-45; short for TICKET] |
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