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"
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
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
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