Ticket vs Size - What's the difference?
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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.
A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
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(dated) A little note or notice.
* Fuller
(dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket'' and eventually ''on tick ).
* J. Cotgrave
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.
To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
(obsolete, outside, dialects) An assize.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 560:
(obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.
(obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.
* Shakespeare
The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
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, title= (obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance.
A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
(graph theory) A number of edges in a graph.
(figurative, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
* L'Estrange
* Jonathan Swift
An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls.
To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
* Francis Bacon
To classify or arrange by size.
# (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
# (mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
(colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
To take a greater size; to increase in size.
* John Donne
(UK, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
(obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
Wallpaper paste.
The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
Ticket is a related term of size.
As nouns the difference between ticket and size
is that ticket is ticket while size is subject, topic.ticket
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.
- Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket .
- That's the ticket .
- I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.
- 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.
- Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.
Derived terms
* automatic ticket sampling machine * golden ticket * have tickets on oneself * lottery ticket * one-way ticket * that's the ticket * ticket machine * write one's own ticketSee also
* (wikipedia "ticket")Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* ticket offsize
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I heard his lordship say at size , that no one is above the law.
- to scant my sizes
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- men of a less size and quality
- the middling or lower size of people
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(siz)- a statute to size weights, and measures
- Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size , grow.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
