Tick
[tɪk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals.
(noun.) a light mattress.
(noun.) a metallic tapping sound; 'he counted the ticks of the clock'.
(verb.) sew; 'tick a mattress'.
(verb.) make a sound like a clock or a timer; 'the clocks were ticking'; 'the grandfather clock beat midnight'.
編輯:特伦斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.
(v. i.) To go on trust, or credit.
(v. i.) To give tick; to trust.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs.
(n.) 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).
(n.) The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.
(n.) Ticking. See Ticking, n.
(v. i.) To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.
(v. i.) To strike gently; to pat.
(n.) A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.
(n.) Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check.
(n.) The whinchat; -- so called from its note.
(v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
錄入:洛伦佐
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Click, beat.[2]. Bed-tick, ticking.[3]. Trust, credit.
v. n. Click, beat.
v. a. Score, check, check off.
手打:卡尔
解釋/意思:
n. the case or cover in which feathers &c. are put for bedding.—ns. Tick′en Tick′ing the cloth of which ticks are made.
n. the popular name for several acaridan arachnids which infest dogs sheep &c.
v.i. to get or give credit.—n. credit: trust.—n. Tick′-shop a shop where goods are given on credit.—Buy on tick to buy on credit.
v.i. to make a small quick noise: to beat as a watch.—ns. Tick′er anything which ticks a watch; Tick′-tack a noise like that made by a clock: (Shak.) a game somewhat like backgammon—adv. with a recurring ticking sound.
v.i. to touch lightly.—n. a tap or light touch: a slight speck.—adj. Ticked speckled.—v.t. Tick′le to touch lightly and cause to laugh: to please by slight gratification.—v.i. to feel titillation or tickling.—ns. Tick′ler; Tick′ling.
校對:马尔科姆
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream you see ticks crawling on your flesh, is a sign of impoverished circumstances and ill health. Hasty journeys to sick beds may be made. To mash a tick on you, denotes that you will be annoyed by treacherous enemies. To see in your dreams large ticks on stock, enemies are endeavoring to get possession of your property by foul means.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Not a word was spoken when we first went in; and the Dutch clock by the dresser seemed, in the silence, to tick twice as loud as usual. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Grandfer Cantle, you turn the tick the right way outwards, and then I'll begin to shake in the feathers. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Clocks tick so loud, too, when you are sitting up alone, and you seem as if you had an under-garment of cobwebs on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- We've put in seventy pounds of best feathers, and I think that's as many as the tick will fairly hold. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Something drummed and clanged furiously in his ears; he could not tell if it were the blood in his veins, or the tick of the clock on the mantel. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- She could hear their tick-tack, tick-tack. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Oh, how she suffered, lying there alone, confronted by the terrible clock, with its eternal tick-tack. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- There was an old clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise everything was deadly still. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- They stood there so still, gazing upon her, that even the ticking of the watch seemed too loud. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The silence that followed was so intense that the faint ticking nibble of the white mice at their wires was distinctly audible where I stood. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- At length, the steady ticking of the undisturbed clock on the wall tormented me to that degree that I resolved to go to bed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- There was no reply; so Mr. Pickwick sat down unbidden, and listened to the loud ticking of the clock and the murmured conversation of the clerks. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- My self-approval when I ticked an entry was quite a luxurious sensation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared each with the bill, and ticked it off. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- His watch ticked on. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Tom Edison, the operator ticked back. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The parlour-fire ticked in the grate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The minutes ticked on, and the constable did not arrive. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- There was only one person on the parlour-hearth, and the loud watch in his pocket ticked audibly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- With its sharp clear bell it strikes three quarters after seven and ticks on again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The clock ticks over the fireplace, the weather-glass hangs in the hall. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Ticks of a Watch and the Tread of a Fly Recorded. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- When I had no more ticks to make, I folded all my bills up uniformly, docketed each on the back, and tied the whole into a symmetrical bundle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- You may have observed that some of them were marked with ticks, and the others--the great majority--were not. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
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