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PRONUNCIATION OF TICK OVER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TICK OVER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tick over is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES TICK OVER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tick over in the English dictionary

The first definition of tick over in the dictionary is Also: idle to run at low speed with the throttle control closed and the transmission disengaged. Other definition of tick over is to run smoothly without any major changes. Tick over is also the speed of an engine when it is ticking over.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TICK OVER

tick
tick all the boxes
tick box
tick fever
tick off
tick trefoil
tick-bird
tick-borne typhus
tick-over
tick-tack-toe
tick-tack-too
ticker
ticker tape
ticker-tape reception
ticket
ticket agency
ticket agent
ticket barrier
ticket booth
ticket collector

WORDS THAT END LIKE TICK OVER

all over
carry over
come over
get over
go over
hand over
hold over
hung over
look over
make over
over
over and over
piss all over
pull over
ride roughshod over
roll over
run over
take over
turn over
win over
work over

Synonyms and antonyms of tick over in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TICK OVER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tick over» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tick over

Translation of «tick over» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TICK OVER

Find out the translation of tick over to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tick over from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tick over» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

剔过
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

marque sobre
570 millions of speakers

English

tick over
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अधिक टिकटिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وضع علامة على
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отметьте над
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

assinale mais
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উপর টিক চিহ্ন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cocher sur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Semak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zecken über
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

以上のダニ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이상 체크
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Obah liwat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đánh dấu trên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மீது சமாளிக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रती टिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kene üzerinde
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tick sopra
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zaznaczyć na
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відзначте над
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bifați peste
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σημειώστε πάνω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

merk oor
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kryssa över
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

huke løpet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tick over

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TICK OVER»

The term «tick over» is regularly used and occupies the 103.187 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TICK OVER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tick over

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TICK OVER»

Discover the use of tick over in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tick over and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Shorter Slang Dictionary
... motivation, etc.; the way (sb's) mind works, as in see if you can find out what makes him tick. Since around 1930. 2 see tick off; tick over. ticket 1 a certificate, as in to get (one's) captain's (or pilot's) ticket Since the late 1890s. 2 see ticketty- boo; ...
Paul Beale, Eric Partridge, Rosalind Fergusson, 2003
2
Ecological Dynamics of Tick-Borne Zoonoses
In North America, adult I. dammini feed principally on white- tailed deer, a host able to distribute this tick over somewhat greater distances (Wilson and Deblinger, 1993). The role of mammal movement in dispersion of tick populations has not ...
Daniel E. Sonenshine Department of Biological Sciences Old Dominion University, Thomas N. Mather Department of Plant Sciences University of Rhode Island, 1994
3
The cattle tick in its relation to southern agriculture
Observations in certain portions of the infested territory, however, point to the adaptation of the tick to changed conditions, and it seems necessary to extend the technical investigations of the life history of the tick over the entire tick- infested ...
August Mayer, 1906
4
How to Modify Your Retro Or Classic Car for High Performance
Lightening & balancing You may have heard that lightening the flywheel will cause problems with engine tick over. There are two responses to this: (a) it probably won't, and (b) tick over is hardly important on a tuned engine anyway. The fact is ...
Daniel Stapleton, 2012
5
Veterinary Immunology: Principles and Practice, Second Edition
The first of these continually cycles at a low level in clinically normal animals and is often referred to as the 'tick over' phase. The key feature of the tick over phase is that it occurs within the extracellular fluid space and is not associated with the ...
Michael J. Day, Ronald D. Schultz, 2014
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Encyclopedic Graded Grammar
Sit in Sleep in Smash up Snarl up Spell down Spin off Stack up Stand by Stand to Start up Stick up Swab out Sweep up Swing round (to) Take away/out Take off Tell of (for) Throw away Throw back Thumb through Tick over Tie up Tip up Toss  ...
I. P. Attarde, 2007
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Encyclopedic Graded Grammar Vol 1
Sit in Sleep in Smash up Snarl up Spell down Spin off Stack up Stand by Stand to Start up Stick up Swab out Sweep up Swing round (to) Take away/out Take off Tell of (for) Throw away Throw back Thumb through Tick over Tie up Tip up Toss  ...
I P Attarde
8
The Chambers Dictionary
... mark with a tick; to reprimand (slang); tick over (of an engine) to run gently, disconnected from the transmission (n tick'-over); (of a person) to lead an inactive , uneventful existence; to function, operate (fig). [ME tek; cf Du //*, LGer tikk; prob ...
Allied Chambers, 1998
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Shadows of Anzac: An Intimate History of Gallipoli
However, the watches of the artillery officers tick over to 4.30 am. At The Nek the men hear an eruption of rifle and machine-gun fire to their right as the troopers from their sister regiments storm Turkish Quinn's and the Chessboard. Minutes tick ...
David Wayne Cameron, 2013
10
The Wascana Anthology of Short Fiction
Because women don't tick over. They just simply don't tick over.” No one disputed this. Iris went on: Women were underinformed. One could have virile conversations only with men. Women were attached to the past through fear, whereas men ...
Ken Mitchell, Thomas Chase, Michael Lloyd Trussler, 1999

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TICK OVER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tick over is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hampshire tick over as pitch makes Middlesex look a little green
Michael Carberry shared a stand of 75 with his captain, Jimmy Adams, as Hampshire took the initiative against Middlesex. Photograph: Nigel Roddis/Getty ... «The Guardian, May 15»
2
Researchers discover new tick-borne disease
The researchers looked at 477 people in northeastern China who had been bitten by a tick over a month-long period in the spring of 2014. Of the group, 6 ... «CBS News, Apr 15»
3
Public Release: 22-Apr-2015 Researchers discover never-before …
The researchers tested 477 patients in northeastern China who had been bitten by a tick over a month-long period in the spring of 2014. Of those, 28, six percent ... «EurekAlert, Apr 15»
4
Researchers discover never-before-seen tick-borne disease
The researchers tested 477 patients in northeastern China who had been bitten by a tick over a month-long period in the spring of 2014. Of those, 28, six percent ... «Medical Xpress, Apr 15»
5
Lyme Disease Is on the Rise -- Here's How to Protect Your Family
tick This summer, we have been boating, hiking, to the beach, and on too many .... But I was bitten by a tick over 10 years ago and I do carry the symptoms of ... «The Stir, Aug 13»

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