tick3 |
the cloth casing for a mattress or pillow. |
ticker |
a telegraphic receiver that automatically prints stock market quotations and reports on paper tape. [4 definitions] |
ticker tape |
paper tape upon which a telegraphic ticker prints stock quotations, reports, and the like. |
ticker-tape parade |
a parade in which a championship sports team, war hero, or dignitary is showered with ticker tape, confetti, and the like from buildings along the parade route. |
ticket |
a small, usu. narrow slip of thin cardboard or paper, serving as evidence of prepayment of the fare, fee, or admission price of some event, service, or the like. [10 definitions] |
ticketless |
combined form of ticket. |
tick fever |
any infectious fever, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, transmitted to humans by the bite of a tick. |
ticking |
a strong, closely woven, usu. twill fabric of cotton or linen, used in casings for mattresses and pillows. |
tickle |
to touch, stroke, or poke (someone or part of someone's body) so as to produce a tingling or itching sensation or spasmodic laughter or movement. [6 definitions] |
tickled pink |
delighted or very pleased. |
tickler |
a person or thing that tickles. [2 definitions] |
ticklish |
sensitive to tickling. [3 definitions] |
tick-tack-toe |
a game for two players, one marking X's and the other marking O's in turn on a grid of nine squares until one succeeds in filling three squares with the same mark in a row down, across, or on a diagonal. |
ticktock |
the ticking sound of a mechanical clock, metronome, or the like. [2 definitions] |
ticky-tacky |
(informal) poorly made or unimaginative in design; cheap; shoddy. [2 definitions] |
tidal |
of, pertaining to, having, or caused by tides. [2 definitions] |
tidal pool |
a body of seawater that remains as a rocky pool on the shore when a tide recedes; tide pool. |
tidal wave |
an unusual rise or incursion of the sea, caused by an underwater quake, a hurricane, or the like; tsunami. [2 definitions] |
tidbit |
an appetizing or choice bit, as of food, gossip, or news. |
tiddlywinks |
(used with a sing. verb) a table game in which the players press large plastic disks against the rims of small ones in order to flick the latter into a cup. |
tide |
the periodic change, occurring about every twelve hours, in the height of the surface of oceans and nearby bodies of water, or a specific instance of this change. Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. [6 definitions] |