Definition: 1. To make short, light, regular repeated sounds to mark time passing. 2. To put a mark (✓) next to an item on a list, an answer, etc. 3. Make a clicking or ticking sound. 4. Make a sound like a clock or a timer.
Use 'tick' in a sentence:
1. I shall be with you in two ticks.
2. Place a tick in the appropriate box.
3. It's a mighty small tick, anyway.
4. Hang on a tick!
5. Put a tick in the appropriate box if you would like further information about any of our products.
6. The population problem cannot be solved in a technical way, any more than can the problem of winning the game of tick-tack-toe.
7. It was the terrible tick-tick of the crocodile.
8. Ever since Einstein, physicists have been telling us that time—this steady tick-tock of the universe—is much weirder than we think.
9. This is a movie that ticks all the boxes.
10. Please tick the appropriate box.
11. He wanted to find out what made them tick.
12. The older woman detached from the younger one and began to tick through the DVDs on the nearest shelf.
13. The tick escaped from Tom, presently, and crossed the equator.
14. The market is at least ticking over.
15. Very slowly he moved forward, the engine ticking over.
16. He released the tick and put him on the long flat desk.
17. Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don't belong to them.
18. I've never really understood what makes her tick.
19. At each tick, a robot can act.
20. As each boy said yes, he ticked their name.
21. Look here, Joe Harper, whose is that tick?
22. Soon Tom said that they were interfering with each other, and neither getting the fullest benefit of the tick.
23. I had to get to the airport by two, and the minutes were ticking away.
24. He ticked off my name on a piece of paper.
25. I'm interested in how people tick.
26. The clock ticked on towards the president's visit.
27. His exercise books were full of well deserved red ticks.
28. If there was ever a bookmark that actually reduced your unproductive nature, it is Tick Tock Timer.
29. Abdel felt free to tick him off for smoking too much.
30. The wheels of language run so smoothly that one rarely bothers to stop and think about all the resourcefulness and expertise that must have gone into making it tick.
31. He's my tick and I'll do what I blame please with him, or die!
32. I am not sure who got me to the wonders of Tick Tock Timer, but it has simplified and saved my life in countless ways.
33. I've ticked the names of the people who have paid.
34. Computer people talk a lot about the need for other people to become "computer-literate", in other words, to learn to understand computers and what makes them tick.
35. A clear recognition of self orientation and personal interest will decide whether you will tick the box of vocational college or university.
36. Tick Tock Timer is that bully for me today.
37. It's a good enough tick for me.
38. The clock ticks away, leaving little time for talks.
39. Can I have these on tick?
40. You are welcome to tick as many of these boxes as appropriate.
41. Ticks can carry a nasty disease which affects humans.
42. Can I have these on tick ?
43. I wound up the watch and listened to it tick.
44. Just hang on a tick, we may be able to help.
45. The minutes towards departure ticked by, until finally the pilot arrived.
46. Bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death.
47. A few more seconds tick past.
48. This is a pretty early tick, I reckon.
49. The only sound was the soft tick of the clock.
50. The clock ticked away the minutes.
51. Ellen heard the loud ticking of the clock in the hall.
52. In the silence we could hear the clock ticking.
53. He sat listening to the tick of the grandfather clock.
54. Tick 'yes' or 'no' to each question.
55. Put a tick if the answer is correct and a cross if it's wrong.
