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ticket
- /ˈtɪk.ɪt/ US, UK
- /ˈtɪk.ət/
Rhymes with -ɪkɪt
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.
noun tickets
- A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, sporting event, etc. I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come?
- A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation. train ticket bus ticket plane ticket
- A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
- A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc. lottery ticket raffle ticket
- A certificate of qualification as a ship's master, pilot, or other crew member. The variety of the demands of the railways for staff is almost endless. They require men with master's tickets as dock masters and to command their steamships.
- A solution to a problem; something that is needed in order to do something. That's the ticket.
- A citation for a traffic violation.
- A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?" "My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation
- A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto. Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.
- A small note or notice. He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.
- A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick). Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.
- A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
- A visiting card. I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.
- A warrant. […] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.
verb tickets · ticketing · ticketed
- To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
- To mark with a ticket. to ticket goods in a retail store
