ticktacktoe ticktacktoo tick-tack-toe tic-tac-toe tit-tat-toe noughts and crosses | a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces, the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does |
tick | any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis, feed on blood of warm-blooded animals |
hard tick ixodid | ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head |
Ixodes dammini deer tick | a northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis |
Ixodes pacificus western black-legged tick | a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California |
Ixodes scapularis black-legged tick | parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England), northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick) |
sheep-tick sheep tick Ixodes ricinus | parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans, can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system), a vector for Lyme disease spirochete |
wood tick American dog tick Dermacentor variabilis | common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia |
soft tick argasid | tick lacking a dorsal shield and having mouth parts on the under side of the head |
horse tick horsefly Hippobosca equina | winged fly parasitic on horses |
sheep ked sheep-tick sheep tick Melophagus Ovinus | wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle |
tick | a light mattress |
ticking | a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers |
up-tick | a small increase, the up-tick in terrorist activity |
check mark check tick | a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc., as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name |
tick ticking | a metallic tapping sound, he counted the ticks of the clock |
coreopsis tickseed tickweed tick-weed | any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods, North and South America |
tick trefoil beggar lice beggar's lice | any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments |
time bomb ticking bomb | a problematic situation that will eventually become dangerous if not addressed, India is a demographic time bomb, the refugee camp is a ticking bomb waiting to go off |
Marseilles fever Kenya fever Indian tick fever boutonneuse fever | a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals |
Rocky Mountain spotted fever mountain fever tick fever | caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks |
check check off mark mark off tick off tick | put a check mark on or near or next to, Please check each name on the list, tick off the items, mark off the units |
tick retick | sew, tick a mattress |
idle tick over | run disconnected or idle, the engine is idling |
tick ticktock ticktack beat | make a sound like a clock or a timer, the clocks were ticking, the grandfather clock beat midnight |
click tick | make a clicking or ticking sound, The clock ticked away |