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View definitions for tick

tick

noun as in checkmark

verb as in click

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The PRRS-resistant pigs may tick all three boxes in specific circumstances, according to Mr Stevenson, as do efforts to use gene editing to enable the egg-production industry to produce female-only chicks to avoid the need for billions of male chicks being killed each year when they are just a day old.

From BBC

That will eventually change—even if the cost of campaigns and the amount of outside spending continues to tick upward.

From Slate

That's what this book is, it’s a non-fictional exploration of what makes us tick, what turns us on, what turns us off, what gets us on, what gets us off.

From Salon

She says she only makes money from her posts because she was awarded a blue tick, which marks paid users on the site and some prominent accounts.

From BBC

Rising global temperatures and worsening extreme weather are changing the distribution and prevalence of tick- and mosquito-borne diseases, fungal pathogens, and water-borne bacteria across the U.S.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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