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tick

n.

A light beat
clock-tick, beat, tick-tock, click, tap, light rap, slight blow, metallic sound.
An insect
parasite, bloodsucker, arachnid, acarida, louse, mite; see also insect, pest 1.
Ticks include: cattle, sheep, bird, wood, deer.
A mattress
feather tick, straw tick, cornhusk tick, pillow, cushion; see also bed 1, mattress.

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Another word for tick

noun

(Chiefly British)

A very brief time:

crack, flash, instant, minute¹, moment, second¹, trice, twinkle, twinkling, wink. (Informal) jiff, jiffy. See big, time

phrasal verb tick off

To name or specify one by one:

enumerate, itemize, list¹, numerate. See count, specific

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The tick in his jaw belied how tightly his teeth were clamped.
He had a personality that would tick off Mother Theresa.
Amblyomma hebraeum, the bont or variegated tick of the Cape Colonists, infects sheep with the 9porozoon causing "heart-water" sickness, and in Europe sheep are inoculated with the same disease by another tick, Rhipicephalus bursa.
In the United States alone the annual pecuniary loss in cattle stock occasioned by the ravages of this tick disease was computed in 1907 at one hundred million dollars.
Who knew what would tick him off?

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