Ticking vs Picking - What's the difference?
ticking | picking |
A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.
*1897 , Kipling, Captains Courageous ,
A sound of something ticking.
* Laman Blanchard, The Frolics of Time
An illusional style of dance where one moves his or her body to the "tic" of the music creating a strobe or animated effect.
A marking that occurs on some horses. It involves 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.
A gathering to pick fruit.
(usually, pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
* 1899 , , Via Crucis , ch. 9:
(usually, pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
* 1919 , , The Secret of the Tower , ch. 11:
As nouns the difference between ticking and picking
is that ticking is a strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses or ticking can be a sound of something ticking or ticking can be a marking that occurs on some horses it involves 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 while picking is a gathering to pick fruit.As verbs the difference between ticking and picking
is that ticking is while picking is .ticking
English
Etymology 1
.Noun
(en noun)- Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- Were they indeed the tickings of a hundred clocks — the fine low inward breathings of Time's children!
Derived terms
* the clock is tickingVerb
(head)Etymology 3
.Noun
(en noun)See also
picking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- We went to a strawberry picking last June.
- Gilbert wandered through . . .the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage.
- He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself.