Ticket
['tɪkɪt]
Definition
(noun.) the appropriate or desirable thing; 'this car could be just the ticket for a small family'.
(noun.) a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment).
(noun.) a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation).
(verb.) provide with a ticket for passage or admission; 'Ticketed passengers can board now'.
(verb.) issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty; 'I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street'; 'Move your car or else you will be ticketed!'.
Typist: Oliver--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
(v.) A little note or notice.
(v.) A tradesman's bill or account.
(v.) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.
(v.) A label to show the character or price of goods.
(v.) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
(v.) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.
(v. t.) To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.
(v. t.) To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California.
Checked by Cordelia
Definition
n. a marked card: a token of any right or debt as for admission &c.: a list of candidates put forward by a party for election: (obs.) a visiting-card.—v.t. to mark by a ticket.—ns. Tick′et-day the day before settling day on the Stock Exchange; Tick′et-of-leave a license to be at large granted to a convict for good conduct; Tick′et-por′ter a licensed porter wearing a badge or ticket; Cou′pon-tick′et (see Coupon); Straight′-ticket a ticket bearing the names of the nominees of a political party and them only.—Season ticket a ticket entitling the holder to admission to lectures &c. or to travel between certain places on a line of railway for a certain specified period; The ticket the correct thing.
Editor: Stu
Examples
- Your chummage ticket,' replied Mr. Roker; 'you're up to that? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I had bought a ticket at Milan for Stresa. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I believe,' said Mr. Pickwick, consulting his ticket--'I believe this is twenty-seven in the third? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He stayed on the train, without a ticket, without baggage, and reached Philadelphia with the Hubbards. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Your chummage ticket will be on twenty- seven, in the third. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Rawlins, an elector on the Douglas ticket. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The booking-office was not open, so they could not even take the ticket. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Your ticket will be inspected every now and then along the route, and when it is time to change cars you will know it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mr. George sealed it at a coffee-house, that it might lead to no discovery, and we sent it off by a ticket-porter. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The gardener (who had driven us) managed about the luggage, while I took the ticket. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It forgets the difference between voting the Socialist ticket and understanding Socialism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That's the ticket, sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I joined them, and distinctly heard the lawyer's clerk demand a ticket for the Blackwater station. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He was also a candidate for elector on the Douglas ticket. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You'll have a chummage ticket upon twenty-seven in the third, and them as is in the room will be your chums. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was likewise furnished with a felt hat well garnished with turnpike tickets; and a carter's whip. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- We must take the tickets for her concert, Fritz said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We have come up to town on purpose to witness an Italian Opera, and we have procured tickets for this box. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Hans said that she advertised one at Leipzig, and the Burschen took many tickets. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We went to the railroad depot, toward evening, and Ferguson got tickets for a second-class carriage. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We must purchase our tickets,' said Mr. Tupman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Certainly, certainly, to be sure, answered the good-natured Fife, still nodding assent, I will send you tickets to-morrow. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Livius had a private box to himself, and tickets for a host of friends. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I procured the tickets, leaving a note at the Professor's lodgings on the way. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Amy, Fanny, and I were promised tickets from the very beginning; but poor Julia was not popular. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Mr. Churchill, these two ladies have bought my tickets of Ebers, and they insist on taking up the front of my box. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I was a-standing starin' in at the pictur shop down at our place, when I sees a little bill about it; “tickets half-a-crown. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It deserves note that at Chicago regular railway tickets were issued to paying passengers, the first ever employed on American electric railways. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Your mother-in-law wos a-goin', Sammy, but she's got the rheumatics, and can't; and I, Sammy--I've got the two tickets as wos sent her. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We buy tickets of her Mas'r, and she gives us bread for 'em. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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