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tick

joen wrote:tick

tock?

My God, has it come to this!

joen

Nice first post - I see you are going to be unstoppable on this forum.

fyi**

and to keep it relevant to the topic of flying...
often only spotted above ground level
both can suck you dry,
once under your skin, it runs in the blood
looks small at a distance
always avoid the sharp end
also like to hang(er)
potentially dangerous
might produce a slight odour if/when over-heated

do NOT show or tell just anyone about it, again potentially costly and painful consequences

tick 1 [tIk] noun
1 a recurrent metallic tapping or clicking sound, such as that made by a clock or watch

2 (Brit, informal) a moment or instant

3 a mark (y_check.) or dash used to check off or indicate the correctness of something

4 (Commerce) the smallest increment of a price fluctuation in a commodity exchange. Tick size is usually 0.01% of the nominal value of the trading unit

verb
5 to produce a recurrent tapping sound or indicate by such a sound
the clock ticked the minutes away

6 (when tr, often foll by off) to mark or check (something, such as a list) with a tick

7 what makes someone tick (Informal) the basic drive or motivation of a person
See also tick off, tick over
[C13: from Low German tikk touch; related to Old High German zekon to pluck, Norwegian tikke to touch]

tick 2 [tIk] noun
1 any of various small parasitic arachnids of the families Ixodidae (hard ticks) and Argasidae, (soft ticks), typically living on the skin of warm-blooded animals and feeding on the blood and tissues of their hosts: order Acarina (mites and ticks)
See also sheep tick (sense 1); Related adj acaroid
2 any of certain other arachnids of the order Acarina

3 any of certain insects of the dipterous family Hippoboscidae that are ectoparasitic on horses, cattle, sheep, etc., esp. the sheep ked

[Old English ticca; related to Middle High German zeche tick, Middle Irish dega stag beetle]

tick 3 [tIk] noun
1 the strong covering of a pillow, mattress, etc.

2 (Informal) short for ticking
[C15: probably from Middle Dutch tike; related to Old High German ziecha pillow cover, Latin teca case, Greek theke]

tick 4 [tIk] noun (Brit, informal)
account or credit (esp. in the phrase on tick)

[C17: shortened from TICKET]

tick 1
1 noun
dash, stroke


2 noun
clack, clicking, tap, tapping, ticktock


3 noun (Brit. informal)
bat of an eye (informal), half a mo (Brit. informal), instant, jiffy (informal), minute, moment, sec (informal), second, shake (informal), split second, trice, twinkling, two shakes of a lamb's tail (informal)


4 verb
check off, indicate, mark, mark off, select


5 verb
clack, tap, ticktock


6 what makes someone tick (Informal) verb
drive, motive, raison d'etre

tick 2
noun (Brit. informal)
account, deferred payment, the slate (Brit. informal)

All compliments of the Collins English Dictionary.....now can we please end this forum!

seems Joen has gone again:!::!:

just in case you have not a very warm welcome to you.