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tick⋅ing

  [tik-ing]
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–noun
1. a strong cotton fabric, usually twilled, used esp. in making cloth ticks.
2. a similar cloth in satin weave or Jacquard, used esp. for mattress covers.
Origin:
1635–45; tick 3 + -ing 1
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tick

1  [tik]
–noun
1. a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.
2. Chiefly British Informal. a moment or instant.
3. a small dot, mark, check, or electronic signal, as used to mark off an item on a list, serve as a reminder, or call attention to something.
4. Stock Exchange.
a. a movement in the price of a stock, bond, or option.
b. the smallest possible tick on a given exchange.
5. Manège. a jumping fault consisting of a light touch of a fence with one or more feet.
6. a small contrasting spot of color on the coat of a mammal or the feathers of a bird.
–verb (used without object)
7. to emit or produce a tick, like that of a clock.
8. to pass as with ticks of a clock: The hours ticked by.
–verb (used with object)
9. to sound or announce by a tick or ticks: The clock ticked the minutes.
10. to mark with a tick or ticks; check (usually fol. by off); to tick off the items on the memo.
—Verb phrase
11. tick off, Slang.
a. to make angry: His mistreatment of the animals really ticked me off.
b. Chiefly British. to scold severely: The manager will tick you off if you make another mistake.
—Idiom
12. what makes one tick, the motive or explanation of one's behavior: The biographer failed to show what made Herbert Hoover tick.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME tek little touch; akin to D tik a touch, pat, Norw tikka to touch or shove slightly. See tickle
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tick 1   (tĭk)   
n.  
  1. A light, sharp, clicking sound made repeatedly by a machine, such as a clock.
  2. Chiefly British A moment.
  3. A light mark used to check off or call attention to an item.
  4. Informal A unit on a scale; a degree: when interest rates move up a tick.
v.   ticked, tick·ing, ticks

v.   intr.
  1. To emit recurring clicking sounds: as the clock ticked.
  2. To function characteristically or well: machines ticking away; curious about what makes people tick.
v.   tr.
  1. To count or record with or as if with the sound of ticks: a clock ticking the hours; a taxi meter ticking the fare.
  2. To mark or check off (a listed item) with a tick: ticked off each name as the roll was called.
Phrasal Verb(s):
tick off Informal To make angry or annoyed: Constant delays ticked me off.

[Middle English tek, light tap.]
tick·ing   (tĭk'ĭng)   
n.  A strong, tightly woven fabric of cotton or linen used to make pillow and mattress coverings.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Ticking

Tick"ing\, n. [From Tick a bed cover. Cf. Ticken.] 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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ticking 
"cloth covering for mattresses or pillows," 1649, from tyke (modern tick) with the same meaning (1342), probably from M.Du. tike, a W.Gmc. borrowing of L. theca "case," from Gk. theke "a case, box, cover, sheath" (see theco-).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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