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Ticking

noun

A metallic tapping sound. Synonym: tick.

A strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers.

Tick

verb

(past & past part. ticked; pres. part. ticking)

Make a clicking or ticking sound. Synonym: click.

Make a sound like a clock or a timer. Synonyms: beat, ticktack, ticktock. "The grandfather clock beat midnight"

Sew. Synonym: retick.

Put a check mark on or near or next to. Synonyms: check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off. "Tick off the items" , "Mark off the units"

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"Ticking" Quotes from Famous Books

... it had been only a few short months that had passed since then? One's life is not measured by the ticking of a clock, but by emotion and feeling. She had crowded more emotion into these few short months than in all the rest of her dull, uneventful life ...

— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett

... his ear: alas! it was ticking vigorously. He felt for the keyhole, and wound it up. After that we employed ourselves in repeating as many of the metrical psalms and paraphrases of Scripture as we could recollect, and this helped away a good part of ...

— Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood • George MacDonald

... fluttered exile. At Manchester, even more than at Liverpool, we are imagined in the immense railroad station hotel, which is indeed perhaps superorganized and over-convenienced after an American ideal: one does not, for instance, desire a striking, or even a ticking, clock in the transom above one's bedroom door; but the like type of hotel is to be found at every great railroad centre or terminal in England, and it is never to be found quite bad, though of course it is sometimes better and sometimes worse. It is hard to know ...

— Seven English Cities • W. D. Howells

... her eyes remained fixed on Bianca, while her hand moved, mechanically ticking the paragraphs. That silent duel of eyes went on—the woman's fixed, cruel, smiling; the girl's uncertain, resentful. Neither of them heard a word that Mr. Stone was reading. They treated it as, from the beginning, Life ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... was not time for her to take her medicine. She looked at the clock, to see if she could tell what o'clock it was. She could not, of course, for she had never learned to tell the time by the clock. Accordingly, after looking at the hands and figures a few minutes in silence, and listening to the ticking, ...

— Forgotten Tales of Long Ago • E. V. Lucas

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