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Anger vs Tick - What's the difference?

anger | tick |

As nouns the difference between anger and tick

is that anger is a strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm while tick is a tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

As verbs the difference between anger and tick

is that anger is to cause such a feeling of antagonism while tick is to make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.

anger

English

(wikipedia anger)

Noun

  • A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.
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  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
  • (obsolete) Pain or stinging.
  • * {{quote-book, 1660, , 3= Mensa mystica, page=322, year_published=1717
  • , passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;
  • * Temple
  • I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.

    Synonyms

    * (strong feeling of antagonism) * See also

    Derived terms

    () * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in anger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
  • Don't anger me.
  • To become angry.
  • You anger too easily.

    Synonyms

    * (to cause anger) enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate * (to become angry) get angry (see angry for more)

    References

    * * Notes:

    Anagrams

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    tick

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , from (etyl), compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
  • Derived terms
    * tick bean * tick trefoil

    See also

    * (wikipedia "tick") * (commonslite)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
  • The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation.
  • A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
  • At midday, the long bond is up a tick .
  • (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
  • (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
  • I'll be back in a tick .
  • (Australian, NZ, British) a mark () made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement; checkmark
  • Indicate that you are willing to receive marketing material by putting a tick in the box
  • A lifer (bird seen by a birdwatcher for the first time) that is uninteresting and routine, thus merely a tick mark on a list.
  • The whinchat; so called from its note.
  • Derived terms
    * full as a tick * tick bite * ticker * ticking * tick off * tick over * tick-tack * tick-tock

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
  • To make a tick mark.
  • (informal) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
  • He took the computer apart to see how it ticked .
    I wonder what makes her tick .
  • To strike gently; to pat.
  • * Latimer
  • Stand not ticking and toying at the branches.
    Derived terms
    * tick all the boxes

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m), probably from (etyl), from (etyl)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Ticking.
  • A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
  • Synonyms
    * ticking
    Derived terms
    * ticking

    Etymology 4

    From (m)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 190:
  • He paid his mother-in-law rent and, when the baker or the butcher or the grocer wouldn't let her have any more on tick , he paid the bills.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To go on trust, or credit.
  • To give tick; to trust.
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