tick

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
    — The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation.
  2. A goat. obsolete
    — Tickhill, Tickham, Ticknock, Tickenhall Drive, Tickenhill Manor, Tickenhurst
  3. Credit, trust. UK,colloquial,uncountable
    — When he had no funds he went on tick. When he could get no credit he went without, and was almost as happy.
  4. Ticking. uncountable
  5. A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
    — Sucking up all you can / Sucking up all you can suck and suck / Working up under my patience like a little tick / Fat little parasite (parasite) / Suck me dry / My fruit is bruised and borrowed / You thieving bastards / You have turned my blood cold and bitter
  6. A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
    — At midday, the long bond is up a tick.
  7. A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling. countable,uncountable
    — She had an old tick for mattress that she stuffed with dried moss.
  8. A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
  9. A short period of time, particularly a second. colloquial
    — I'll be back in a tick.
  10. A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
  11. Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
  12. A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness, or acknowledgement. Commonwealth
    — Indicate that you are willing to receive marketing material by putting a tick in the box
  13. A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
    — There are few birders who have not had stringy ticks on their lists at some stage.
  14. A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
  15. A tap or light touch.
  16. A slight speck.
动词 v.
  1. To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock.
    — As 2020 ticked over into 2021, some 240 worksites were active on HS2's Phase 1 route between London and the West Midlands.
  2. To go on trust, or credit. intransitive
  3. To make a tick or checkmark.
  4. To give tick; to trust. transitive
  5. To work or operate, especially mechanically. informal,intransitive
    — He took the computer apart to see how it ticked.
  6. To strike gently; to pat.
    — Therefore you Preachers out vvith your ſvvords and ſtrike at the root; ſpeak againſt covetouſneſs, and cry out upon it. Stand not ticking and toying at the branches, nor at the boughs, for then there vvill be nevv boughs and branches ſpring again of them, but ſtrike at the root, […]
  7. To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard). transitive

词形变化

ticks plural ticks plural ticks present,singular,third-person ticking participle,present ticked participle,past ticked past ticks plural ticks present,singular,third-person ticking participle,present ticked participle,past ticked past ticks plural

词汇关系

近义词
ticking
衍生词
armchair tick backtick bedtick birdcatcher tick bluetick blue tick downtick foul tick megatick subtick tick-based tick box ticker ticking tickless tick mark tick-tack ticktacktoe tic-tac-toe tick-tock ticky to a tick uptick box-ticking clock is ticking make tick take a licking and keep on ticking tickable tick all the boxes tick a lock tick a lot of boxes tick and flick tick and tie tick and toy tick away tick by tick down ticking clock ticking-off ticking-over ticking timebomb tick off tick on tick over tick past time is ticking top-tick untick

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tyke, teke, from Old English ticia (“parasitic animal, tick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīkō, compare Dutch teek, German Zecke.
词源 2
From Middle English *tik, tek, tyche (“light touch, tap”), from the verb (see Etymology 3 below). Compare Dutch tik (“a pat, tap”), Middle High German zic (“a slight touch”).
词源 3
From Middle English ticken, tiken, probably from Old English *ticcian (“to touch, tap”), from Proto-West Germanic *tikkōn (“to touch, tap”), cognate with German zecken (“to nudge, poke, jab”). Doublet of tig.
词源 4
From Middle English tike, probably from Middle Dutch tike and Middle Low German teke, both ultimately from Latin theca (“cover”). Compare also German Zieche (“duvet, pillowcase”).
词源 5
Clipping of ticket.
词源 6
From Middle English tik-, tic-, tike-, tiken- (in compounds), an unassibilated form of Middle English tiche, tichen (“young goat”), from Old English tiċċen (“young goat; kid”), from Proto-West Germanic *tikkīn (“goatling”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *tigā (“goat”). Cognate with regional German Zicke (“nanny goat”), from Ziege (“goat; nanny goat”).
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