Noun | 1. | tick - a metallic tapping sound; "he counted the ticks of the clock" Synonyms: ticking |
2. | tick - any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals | |
3. | tick - 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" Synonyms: check mark, check | |
4. | tick - a light mattress | |
Verb | 1. | tick - make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away" Synonyms: click |
2. | tick - make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" | |
3. | tick - sew; "tick a mattress" Synonyms: retick | |
4. | tick - put a check mark on or next to; "Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items" |
TICK, contracts. Credit; as, if a servant usually buy for the master upon tick, and the servant buy something without the master's order, yet, if the master were trusted by the trader, he is liable. 1 Show. 95; 3 Keb. 625; 10 Mod. 111; 3 Esp. R. 214; 4 Esp. R. 174.
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 handwaved. 3. In the FORTH language, a single quote character. |