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==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈtɪkɪŋ/}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪkɪŋ|s=2}}

===Etymology 1===
{{suffix|en|tick#Etymology 3|alt1=tick|t1=sheet, cover|ing|t2=material, collection}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# A strong [[cotton]] or [[linen]] [[fabric]] used to [[cover]] [[pillow]]s and [[mattress]]es.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1897|author=w:Rudyard Kipling|title=Captains Courageous|chapter=[[s:Captains Courageous/Chapter I|chapter 1]]
|passage=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 [[nubble]]s.}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|a strong cotton or linen fabric}}
* Aramaic: {{t|arc|אַבּוּרְגְּנָא|m|sc=Hebr}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|στρωματσόπανο|n}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|éadach tochta|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|traliccio|m}}, {{t|it|vergatino|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|тик|m|sc=Cyrl}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|terliz|m}}
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===Etymology 2===

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# A [[sound]] of something ticking.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1842|author=w:Laman Blanchard|chapter=The Frolics of Time|title=George Cruikshank's Omnibus
|passage=Were they indeed the '''tickings''' of a hundred clocks &mdash; the fine low inward breathings of Time's children!}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Angela Leighton|title=Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature|publisher=w:Harvard University Press|year=2018|month=May|page=237|pageurl=https://www.google.com.sv/books/edition/Hearing_Things/kbpTDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22ticking+of%22&pg=PT237&printsec=frontcover|text=The combination of “monotony” and “variety,” which keeps the writer in a trance-like state between sleep and wake, is then characterized by the figure of a ticking watch: “If certain sensitive persons listen persistently to the ticking of a watch [...] they fall into the hypnotic trance; and rhythm is but the '''ticking''' of a watch made softer, that one must needs listen, and various, that one may not be swept beyond memory or grow weary of listening” (1961: 159).}}
# An [[illusional]] style of [[dance]] where one moves his or her body to the "[[tic]]" of the music creating a [[strobe]] or [[animated]] effect.

====Verb====
{{head|en|verb form}}

# {{infl of|en|tick||ing-form}}
#: {{ux|en|a '''ticking''' time bomb}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Angela Leighton|title=Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature|publisher=w:Harvard University Press|year=2018|month=May|page=237|pageurl=https://www.google.com.sv/books/edition/Hearing_Things/kbpTDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22ticking+of%22&pg=PT237&printsec=frontcover|text=The combination of “monotony” and “variety,” which keeps the writer in a trance-like state between sleep and wake, is then characterized by the figure of a '''ticking''' watch: “If certain sensitive persons listen persistently to the ticking of a watch [...] they fall into the hypnotic trance; and rhythm is but the ticking of a watch made softer, that one must needs listen, and various, that one may not be swept beyond memory or grow weary of listening” (1961: 159).}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|clock is ticking|the clock is ticking}}
* {{l|en|ticking bomb}}
* {{l|en|ticking time bomb}}

===Etymology 3===
{{suffix|en|tick|t1=tick mark|ing|t2=having the property}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# A [[marking]] that occurs on some [[horses]], involving [[white]] [[fleck]]s of [[hair]] at the [[flank]], and white [[hair]]s at the [[base]] of the [[tail]], called a [[skunk tail]] or [[rabicano]], sometimes referred to as [[birdcatcher tick]]s.

===See also===
{{R:Britannica 1911|Ticking}}

{{C|en|Dance|Fabrics|Sounds}}