Synonyms:
tick, ticking
Meaning: a metallic tapping sound; "he counted the ticks of the clock"
Synonyms:
tick
Meaning: any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
click, tick
Meaning: make a clicking or ticking sound; "The clock ticked away"
Synonyms:
tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat
Meaning: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight"
Usage examples
There was a silence during which the tick of the monumental ormolu clock on the white marble mantelpiece grew as loud as the boom of a minute-gun.
It was beautiful to hear that clock tick; and sometimes when one of these peddlers had been along and scoured her up and got her in good shape, she would start in and strike a hundred and fifty before she got tuckered out.
Now, the way I look at it, a hickry-bark ladder don't cost nothing, and don't waste nothing, and is just as good to load up a pie with, and hide in a straw tick, as any rag ladder you can start; and as for Jim, he ain't had no experience, and so he don't care what kind of a"
And then came Mrs. Pepper with the big mending basket, and ensconced herself opposite by the table; and nothing was to be heard but the "tick, tick" of the clock, and an occasional dropping of a spool of thread, or scissors, from the busy hands flying in and out among the stockings.