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ticking

ˈtɪkɪŋ
WordNet
Ticking roll-cushion cover of linen, blue checked. Brand K.
Ticking roll-cushion cover of linen, blue checked. Brand K.
  1. (n) ticking
    a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers
  2. (n) ticking
    a metallic tapping sound "he counted the ticks of the clock"
Illustrations
Ticking bed cover, blue and white checkered and striped.
Ticking bed cover, blue and white checkered and striped.
Beaver hat. Clothes-jackets, with garnering of pearl buttons. Goat hair pants. Ticking gaiters.
Beaver hat. Clothes-jackets, with garnering of pearl buttons. Goat hair pants. Ticking gaiters.
Linen ticking cover for a lumbar cushion, blue striped. Amazed. Make (WG) 1765
Linen ticking cover for a lumbar cushion, blue striped. Amazed. Make (WG) 1765
Lumbar cushion covered with ticking and a colorful cord around it. In one corner the initials HW.
Lumbar cushion covered with ticking and a colorful cord around it. In one corner the initials HW.
Ticking cushion cover of linen, white and blue checkered and checked.
Ticking cushion cover of linen, white and blue checkered and checked.
Pillow covered with ticking, white-blue striped. All around silk looped fringe in white and purple. In one corner the initials HW.
Pillow covered with ticking, white-blue striped. All around silk looped fringe in white and purple. In one corner the initials HW.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
There was once a fish caught in Delaware Bay with a watch still ticking inside
  1. Ticking
    A strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Ticks can be as small as a grain of rice and grow to be as big as a marble
  1. (n) ticking
    The act of making ticks, or slight repeated sounds; the sounds themselves: as, the ticking of the clock.
  2. (n) ticking
    A strong material of linen or cotton, basket-woven, and usually in stripes of blue or pink with white. It is used especially for bedticks, whence the name, and also for awnings and similar purposes, and in recent times as a foundation for embroidery, the stripes facilitating the working of certain designs. Also ticken.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
You can see a candle flame from 50 Kilometers on a clear, dark night. You can hear the tick of a watch from 6 meters in very quiet conditions. You can taste one gram of salt in 500 liters of water (.0001M). You can detect one drop of perfume diffused throughout a three-room apartment. You can detect the wing of a bee falling on your cheek from a height of one centimeter.
  1. (ns) Ticking
    the cloth of which ticks are made
Quotations
Lou Erickson
Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
Lou Erickson
Idioms

Full as a tick - If you are as full as a tick, you have eaten too much.

In a tick - (UK) If someone will do something in a tick, they'll do it very soon or very quickly.

Tick all the right boxes - To meet or fit the criteria or expectations. For example, "This product ticked all the right boxes for me", or "That applicant's interview didn't go so well; it didn't tick any of my boxes".

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary From Tick a bed cover. Cf. Ticken

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. theca—-Gr. thēkē, a case—tithēmi, I put.

Usage in the news

That ticking you hear in 'Lincoln'. kentucky.com

This guy is ticked off cuz a cowgirl is stepping on his trademark. radiousa.com

The characteristic "bull's-eye" reaction to a tick bite. netnebraska.org

This Friday is one of those special evenings, when Deer Tick takes the stage. chattanoogapulse.com

Deer Tick is rock 'n roll. 1055triplem.com

Deer Tick will perform at 8 pm May 25 at McMenamins Mission Theatre, 1624 N W. Glisan St, Portland. columbian.com

INTERVIEWS Listen to Deer Tick 's Shaggy 'Tim' Cut 'Born at Zero'. spin.com

Deer Tick / Photo by Scott Alario. spin.com

In all probability , they're ticked off in Dallas. espn.go.com

Last fall, my dog and I came home from several outings, and I picked many ticks from each of us. vgazette.com

I haven't seen as many ticks in my entire life as I have recently. vgazette.com

What's the Right Way to Make Your Watch Tick. esquire.com

And she's TICKED OFF about it. kygl.com

Cotton-pickin, I never know who I'm going to tick off . thetexasspur.com

WaPo Gives Dodd the Tick-Tock Treatment. cjr.org

Usage in scientific papers

The upper and lower ticks represent the positions of the calculated chemical and magnetic reflections, respectively.
Random Fan-Out State Induced by Site-Random Interlayer Couplings

Table 3: Optimal tick values for the considered assets, in the linear case and the square root concave case.
Large tick assets: implicit spread and optimal tick size

So the spread (in ticks) is invariant when the tick value is modified.
Large tick assets: implicit spread and optimal tick size

Step 2: Use our methodology for large tick assets.
Large tick assets: implicit spread and optimal tick size

Quantifying the tick size: the implicit spread.
Large tick assets: implicit spread and optimal tick size

Usage in literature

Bags, pillow-cases, bed-ticks, sheets and coverlets had been called into requisition to hold the precious leaves. "What Might Have Been Expected" by Frank R. Stockton

The seconds ticked into minutes. "Treachery in Outer Space" by Carey Rockwell and Louis Glanzman

Look at that tick of a forward there. "The Loom of Youth" by Alec Waugh

Clocks and watches tick louder before mild weather. "Current Superstitions" by Various

What he suffered as the afternoon faded and the ticking of the clock thudded on his senses, no one could ever know. "Joyce of the North Woods" by Harriet T. Comstock

It was wet, of course, but, to his surprise, was still merrily ticking away. "Frank Merriwell's Reward" by Burt L. Standish

Inside the box you can hear a gentle but steady tick, tick, tick. "Banzai!" by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

Only the ticking of a little clock was audible. "The Eternal City" by Hall Caine

The hall clock with slow and solemn tick marked one hour of waiting, and still he did not come. "Pocket Island" by Charles Clark Munn

There was not a sound but the ticking of a clock on the mantel-shelf. "Mary Gray" by Katharine Tynan

Usage in poetry
It is I, I,
I lay between you, I was
open, was
audible, ticked at you, your breathing
obeyed, it is
I still, but then you are asleep.
And still no nearer to the Light,
And still no further from myself,
Alone and lost in clinging night
—(The clock’s still ticking on the shelf).
But the spectre stood in that yonder gloom,
And these were the words it spake,
"Tick-tock, tick-tock"--and they seemed to mock
A heart about to break.
"Because a raskle chews
My oss away to robb,
And goes tick at your Mews
For seven-and-fifty bobb,
Shall I be call'd to pay?—It is
A iniquitious Jobb."
A little child on the sun-checked floor,
A broken toy, and a tear stained face,
A young life clouded, a young heart sore;
And the great clock, time, ticks on apace.
The innocent mansion of a panthers heart!
It crumbles, tick-tick time drags it in
Till now his arteries lag and now they start
Reverence with the frigid gusts of sin.