Ticking

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A strong, tightly woven fabric of cotton or linen used to make pillow and mattress coverings.
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  • n. A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.
  • n. A sound of something ticking.
  • n. An illusional style of dance where one moves his or her body to the "tic" of the music creating a strobe or animated effect.
  • n. 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.
  • v. Present participle of tick.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of making ticks, or slight repeated sounds; the sounds themselves: as, the ticking of the clock.
  • n. A strong material of linen or cotton, basket-woven, and usually in stripes of blue or pink with white.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers
  • n. a metallic tapping sound
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cloth    fabric    material    textile   
    Variant
    ticken   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tick-tock   
    Verb Stem
    tick   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    clicking    flicking    kicking    licking    picking   
     
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