ticking
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
edittick (“sheet, cover”) + -ing (“material, collection”).
Noun
editticking (plural tickings)
- A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.
- 1897, Rudyard Kipling, “chapter 1”, in Captains Courageous:
- Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.
Translations
edita strong cotton or linen fabric
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Etymology 2
editNoun
editticking (plural tickings)
- A sound of something ticking.
- 1842, Laman Blanchard, “The Frolics of Time”, in George Cruikshank's Omnibus:
- Were they indeed the tickings of a hundred clocks — the fine low inward breathings of Time's children!
- 2018 May, Angela Leighton, Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature, Harvard University Press, page 237:
- The combination of “monotony” and “variety,” which keeps the writer in a trance-like state between sleep and wake, is then characterized by the figure of a ticking watch: “If certain sensitive persons listen persistently to the ticking of a watch [...] they fall into the hypnotic trance; and rhythm is but the ticking of a watch made softer, that one must needs listen, and various, that one may not be swept beyond memory or grow weary of listening” (1961: 159).
- An illusional style of dance where one moves his or her body to the "tic" of the music creating a strobe or animated effect.
Verb
editticking
- present participle and gerund of tick
- a ticking time bomb
- 2018 May, Angela Leighton, Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature, Harvard University Press, page 237:
- The combination of “monotony” and “variety,” which keeps the writer in a trance-like state between sleep and wake, is then characterized by the figure of a ticking watch: “If certain sensitive persons listen persistently to the ticking of a watch [...] they fall into the hypnotic trance; and rhythm is but the ticking of a watch made softer, that one must needs listen, and various, that one may not be swept beyond memory or grow weary of listening” (1961: 159).
Derived terms
editEtymology 3
edittick (“tick mark”) + -ing (“having the property”).
Noun
editticking (plural tickings)
- A marking that occurs on some horses, involving white flecks of hair at the flank, and white hairs at the base of the tail, called a skunk tail or rabicano, sometimes referred to as birdcatcher ticks.
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