Usually means: Small arachnid, feeds on blood.
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We found 69 dictionaries that define the word tick:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. tick: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tick, tick, tick, tick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tick, tick, tick, tick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tick: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tick: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tick, tick: Wordnik
  7. tick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tick: Wiktionary
  9. tick: Dictionary.com
  10. tick (1), tick (2), tick (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. tick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. The Tick (TV series), The Tick (comic book), The Tick (live action TV series), The Tick (video game), The Tick, The tick, Tick (check mark), Tick (checkmark), Tick (comics), Tick (disambiguation), Tick (software), Tick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Tick: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. tick: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. tick: Rhymezone
  16. tick: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. tick: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. TICK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. Tick (e.g. Tick the box): Britih-American Dictionary
  20. Tick: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. tick: Free Dictionary
  22. tick: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. tick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tick: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. tick: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. tick: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. tick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  28. tick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  29. tick: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Tick: bizterms.net
  4. Tick: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Tick: Harvey Financial
  6. Tick: Moneyterms
  7. Tick: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  8. tick: Finance-Glossary.com
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Tick: Investopedia
  11. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  12. Tick: Legal dictionary
  13. Tick: Financial dictionary
  14. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  15. Tick: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  16. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)
  17. tick: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tick: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Tick (disambiguation), tick: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Tick: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Tick (disambiguation), tick: Medical dictionary
  5. Tick: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. TICK: Acronym Finder
  3. tick: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tick: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tick: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. tick: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. The Tick, tick: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Tick: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See ticked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
noun:  A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
noun:  A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
noun:  (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
noun:  (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
noun:  (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
noun:  (gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
noun:  (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
noun:  (ornithology) A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
noun:  A tap or light touch.
noun:  A slight speck.
verb:  To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
verb:  To make a tick or checkmark.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
verb:  To strike gently; to pat.
verb:  (birdwatching, transitive) To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
noun:  (uncountable) Ticking.
noun:  A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
noun:  (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
verb:  (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
verb:  (transitive) To give tick; to trust.
noun:  (obsolete, place names) A goat.

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