Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.

    тикtik

    a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers

  2. (countable, uncountable)A sound of something that ticks. (For example, the second hand on a clock face.)

  3. (countable, uncountable)An illusional style of dance where one moves his or her body to the "tic" of the music creating a strobe or animated effect.

  4. 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.

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a strong cotton or linen fabric:

Origin

From tick (“sheet, cover”) + -ing (“material, collection”). From tick (“tick mark”) + -in

From tick (“sheet, cover”) + -ing (“material, collection”).

From tick (“tick mark”) + -ing (“having the property”).

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Forms

plural: tickings
Singularticking
Pluraltickings

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a metallic tapping sound:tick

Word family

1 related words
Relatedtick

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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