to tick

تعريف to tick في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.: To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock; A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement
At midday, the long bond is up a tick.; A sheet that wraps around a mattress; A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery
The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation.; A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency); a mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement; checkmark
Indicate that you are willing to receive marketing material by putting a tick in the box.; Credit, trust
I bought my groceries at the corner shop on tick.; A tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina; {n} a score, account, doglouse, noise, ticken; {v} to run a score, trust, strike, beat; short for ticket. Credit, trust; any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals a light mattress a metallic tapping sound; "he counted the ticks of the clock"; Ticking; any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals; The tick of a clock or watch is the series of short sounds it makes when it is working, or one of those sounds. He sat listening to the tick of the grandfather clock; A quick, audible beat, as of a clock; The standardised minimum price movement of a futures or options contract; You can use tick to refer to a very short period of time. I'll be back in a tick = sec; A tick is the minimum movement by which the price of a security, option, or index changes With stocks, a tick may be little as one cent With US Treasury securities, the smallest increment is 1/32 of a point, or 31 25 cents, and with corporate and municipal bonds, it's 1/8 of a point, or $1 25 An uptick represents an increase in price, and a downtick a drop in price; Refers to a change in price, either up or down (back to top); To make a tick mark; The minimum increment in which prices are quoted for a given instrument; a mark () made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement; checkmark; A tick is a small creature which lives on the bodies of people or animals and uses their blood as food. chemicals that destroy ticks and mites. Credit or an amount of credit. Any of some 825 parasitic arachnid species (suborder Ixodida, order Parasitiformes), found worldwide. Adults may be slightly more than an inch (30 mm) long, but most species are much smaller. Hard ticks start and end each developmental stage egg, larva, nymph, adult on the ground; at the completion of each stage, they attach to a host (usually a mammal), engorge on blood, then drop to the ground. Soft ticks feed intermittently, pass through several nymphal stages, and live in the host's den or nest. Hard ticks may draw large amounts of blood, secrete paralyzing or lethal neurotoxins, and transmit diseases. Soft ticks may also carry diseases. The deer tick is the principal vector of Lyme disease; A small change in market price, either up or down; which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling; Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals; If you talk about what makes someone tick, you are talking about the beliefs, wishes, and feelings that make them behave in the way that they do. He wanted to find out what made them tick; a metallic tapping sound; "he counted the ticks of the clock"; To go on trust, or credit; This refers to a change in the price of a security, either up or down - as in up tick or down tick; A short period of time, particularly a second; Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep); When a clock or watch ticks, it makes a regular series of short sounds as it works. A wind-up clock ticked busily from the kitchen counter. Tick away means the same as tick. A grandfather clock ticked away in a corner. + ticking tick·ing the endless ticking of clocks; make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight; The smallest price increment in a futures or CFD price Often referred to as a "pip" in the currency markets For example, in Down Jones Industrials, a move from 8845 to 8846 is one tick In S&P 500, a move from 902 50 to 902 51 is one tick; To strike gently; to pat; {f} make a ticking sound (like a clock); mark, indicate, check off (as a list), put a check mark on; sew (a mattress); go on credit; Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick; Each trade in a security can be considered a tick- if the latest tick is up from the prior tick, it is considered an "uptick", and if the latest tick is lower than the prior tick, it is called a "downtick"; Measurement of the movement in a stock price (See "Up Tick," "Down Tick"); make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away"; A price movement; sew; "tick a mattress"; Refers to a change in price, either up or down; a light mattress; To give tick; to trust; See Ticking, n; To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score; Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body; The minimum allowable price fluctuation (up or down) for a futures contract Different contracts have different size ticks Ticks can be stated in terms of price per unit of measure; A minimum change in price, up or down; Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check; (See minimum price fluctuation ); If you tick something that is written on a piece of paper, you put a tick next to it. Please tick this box if you do not wish to receive such mailings; {i} ticking sound; credit; small parasitic bloodsucking arachnid which can sometimes be the carrier of infectious diseases; light mattress; cover of a mattress or pillow; mark that indicates that something has been noted or done; The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc; The minimum price fluctuation for a futures contract Commonly used in reference to GNMA's and Treasury bond futures to indicate 1/32 of one percent par value; Refers to a minimum change in price up or down See Point; This refers to a change in the price of a security An uptick occurs when the last trade in a security takes place at a higher price than the prior trade A downtick occurs when the last trade in a security takes place at a lower price than the prior trade An indicator may be fashioned from the difference between the number of NYSE issues showing upticks on the last trade and the number of NYSE issues showing downticks on the last trade This indicator is known as the TICK, and is found on many quote screens A TICK of +236 means 236 more NYSE issues last traded on upticks than those trading on downticks; The smallest allowable increment of price movement for a contract; To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat; sheet that wraps around a mattress; Refers to the minimum change in price a security can have, either up or down Related: Point; The tick refers to the movement or direction of the last trade This is represented as an up tick (+) or a down tick (-); The smallest possible price move; Refers to a change in price, either up or down (See minimum price fluctuation ); A tick is a written mark like a V: ✓. It is used to show that something is correct or has been selected or dealt with. Place a tick in the appropriate box; The smallest allowable increment of price movement for a contract Also referred to as Minimum Price Fluctuation; Minimum fluctuation in the price at which a security trades For example, a stock tick can be 1/8, 1/16, or even 1/32 (depending upon the units in which the stock trades) This term also applies to fluctuation in the prices of the market as a whole See also downtick, uptick, and zero-plus tick