Noun

(en-noun)

A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.

A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation

A citation for a traffic violation.

A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.

A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally Internet Service Provider related).

(informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.

Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.

Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket .

A solution to a problem; something that is needed.

That's the ticket .

I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.

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, year=1884 , author=Mark Twain , title=Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , chapter=34 , url= , isbn=0-553-21079-3 , page= , passage="Here's the ticket . This hole's big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board."}}

(dated) A little note or notice.

* Fuller

He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.

(dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket'' and eventually ''on tick ).

* J. Cotgrave

Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.

A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.

A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.

Noun

(en noun)

A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}

A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion, a tribune.

A kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.

(figurative)

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, title=Moldova 0-5 England

, work=BBC Sport citation , passage=Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.}}

(automobiles) A set of components shared by several vehicle models.

(computing) A particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software, and/or a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used to describe a particular environment for running other software, or for defining a specific software or hardware environment for discussion purposes.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms . Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}

(politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.

(travel) A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.

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(obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.

(Francis Bacon)

(nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.

A flat expanse of rock often as a result of wave erosion.