Ticketh vs Licketh - What's the difference?
ticketh | licketh |
(tick)
A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
(computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
(colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
(Australian, NZ, British) a mark () made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement; checkmark
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.
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.
To strike gently; to pat.
* Latimer
(uncountable) Ticking.
A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
(UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 190:
(lick)
The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.
* Gray
A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
(colloquial) A stroke or blow.
(colloquial) A bit.
(music) A short motif.
speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good', or ' fair or a similar adjective.
To stroke with the tongue.
(colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
(colloquial) To overcome.
(vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
(colloquial) To do anything partially.
To lap
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
To lap; to take in with the tongue.
As verbs the difference between ticketh and licketh
is that ticketh is (tick) while licketh is (lick).ticketh
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*tick
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl), compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Derived terms
* tick bean * tick trefoilEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation.
- At midday, the long bond is up a tick .
- I'll be back in a tick .
- Indicate that you are willing to receive marketing material by putting a tick in the box
Derived terms
* full as a tick * tick bite * ticker * ticking * tick off * tick over * tick-tack * tick-tockVerb
(en verb)- He took the computer apart to see how it ticked .
- I wonder what makes her tick .
- Stand not ticking and toying at the branches.
Derived terms
* tick all the boxesEtymology 3
From (etyl) (m), probably from (etyl), from (etyl)Noun
Synonyms
* tickingDerived terms
* tickingEtymology 4
From (m)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
licketh
English
Verb
(head)lick
English
(licking)Noun
(en noun)- The cat gave its fur a lick .
- Give me a lick of ice cream.
- a lick''' of paint; to put on colours with a '''lick of the brush
- a lick of court white wash
- The birds gathered at the clay lick .
- We used to play in the lick .
- Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
- You don't have a lick of sense.
- I didn't do a lick of work today.
- There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
- The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.
Synonyms
* (bit) see also .Verb
(en verb)- The cat licked its fur.
- My dad can lick your dad.
- I think I can lick this.
- Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
- A cat licks milk.
- (Shakespeare)