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# {{lb|en|sometimes|metaphorical}} To [[sign]] an item on a list with a [[tick]] mark, especially as a signal that the item has veen verified or completed; to [[check off]]. |
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#: {{ux|en|I '''ticked off''' Harry today because he announced he was present.}} |
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#: {{ux|en|I '''ticked''' three things '''off''' the list in my head, and had only four chores left to do.}} |
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#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2022 January 12|author=Dr. Joseph Brennan|title=Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail|journal=RAIL|issue=948|page=53|text=A decade ago, I was a backpacker entirely reliant on the railways as a means to see Britain, and with castles as my destination. Via trains alone, I was able to '''tick off''' nearly all of the castles that my English Heritage annual pass afforded me.}} |
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# To [[list]] {{gloss|create or recite a list}}. |
# To [[list]] {{gloss|create or recite a list}}. |
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=David A. Powell|title=Failure in the Saddle|publisher=w:Savas Beatie|isbn=9781932714876|page=68|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=tg0bYP_xRcAC&pg=PA68|passage=In a lengthy missive dispatched the next afternoon, Wheeler '''ticked off''' a laundry list of reasons why he could not obey Bragg's order.}} |
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#* {{quote-web|en|date=November 8 2023|author={{w|Paul Salopek}}|title=River Blues|url=https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2023-11-river-blues/|work=National Geographic|passage=“So many wars here,” says Luo Xin, my walking partner and a brilliant writer and professor of history from Peking University.<br>I ask Luo to name them.<br>Not breaking stride, he '''ticks off''' the wars between the Three Kingdoms more than 2,200 years ago. And then the Han-Xiongnu war of the second century B.C. And Liu Bobo’s later campaigns against the Qin empire. And the Tang versus Northern Song dynasty. And the Ming frontier wars. More recently, there was the Chinese civil war and the war against Japanese aggression. The Yellow River’s silted waters sucked away casualties from them all.}} |
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#*: In a lengthy missive dispatched the next afternoon, Wheeler '''ticked off''' a laundry list of reasons why he could not obey Bragg's order. |
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# {{lb|en|North America}} To [[annoy]], [[aggravate]]. |
# {{lb|en|North America|transitive}} To [[annoy]], [[aggravate]]. |
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#: {{ux|en|It really '''ticks''' me '''off''' when people don't use proper punctuation.}} |
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# {{lb|en|British}} To [[reprimand]]. |
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#: {{ux|en|Fred was '''ticked off''' by the teacher for playing around in class.}} |
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#* {{quote-book|1=en|year=1929|author=[[w:Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]|title=When the World Screamed|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100031h.html|passage=Having '''ticked''' us '''off''' in this way, the rascal had an elaborate description of rails at the pit mouth, and of a zigzag excavation by which funicular trains were to burrow into the earth.}} |
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* {{sense|list}} {{l|en|enumerate}}, {{l|en|recite}}; see also [[Thesaurus:tick off]] |
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* {{sense|annoy}} {{l|en|bug}}, {{l|en|irk}}; see also [[Thesaurus:annoy]] |
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* {{sense|reprimand}} {{l|en|admonish}}, {{l|en|tell off}}; see also [[Thesaurus:criticize]] |
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====Translations==== |
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{{trans-top|to sign with a tick}} |
{{trans-top|to sign with a tick}} |
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* Finnish: {{t+|fi|merkitä}} |
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* French: {{t+|fr|cocher}}, {{t+|fr|marquer}} |
* French: {{t+|fr|cocher}}, {{t+|fr|marquer}} |
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* German: {{t|de|anhaken}}, {{t+|de|ankreuzen}} |
* German: {{t|de|anhaken}}, {{t+|de|ankreuzen}} |
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* Polish: {{t+|pl|odhaczać|impf}}, {{t+|pl|odhaczyć|pf}} |
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* Swedish: {{t+|sv|bocka av}} |
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* Turkish: {{t+|tr|işaretlemek}} |
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|işaretlemek}} |
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* Volapük: {{t|vo|mäkön me krod}} |
* Volapük: {{t|vo|mäkön me krod}} |
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{{trans-top|to list}} |
{{trans-top|to list}} |
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* Finnish: {{t+|fi|luetella}}, {{t+|fi|listata}} |
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* French: {{t+|fr|lister}}, {{t+|fr|énumérer}} |
* French: {{t+|fr|lister}}, {{t+|fr|énumérer}} |
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* German: {{t+|de|auflisten}} |
* German: {{t+|de|auflisten}} |
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* Turkish: {{t+|tr|listelemek}} |
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|listelemek}} |
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{{trans-bottom}} |
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{{trans-top|to annoy, aggravate}} |
{{trans-top|to annoy, aggravate}} |
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* Finnish: {{t+|fi|ärsyttää}} |
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* French: {{t+|fr|agacer}}, {{t+|fr|énerver}} |
* French: {{t+|fr|agacer}}, {{t+|fr|énerver}} |
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* German: {{t+|de|auf die Nerven gehen}}, (jemanden) {{t|de|auf die Palme bringen}} |
* German: {{t+|de|auf die Nerven gehen}}, (jemanden) {{t|de|auf die Palme bringen}} |
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* Turkish: {{qualifier|colloquial}} {{t+|tr|gıcık etmek}} |
* Turkish: {{qualifier|colloquial}} {{t+|tr|gıcık etmek}} |
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* French: {{t+|fr|réprimander}} |
* French: {{t+|fr|réprimander}} |
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* German: (jemanden) {{t+|de|rüffeln}} |
* German: (jemanden) {{t+|de|rüffeln}} |
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* Swedish: {{t+|sv|läxa upp}} |
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* Turkish: {{t+|tr|azarlamak}}, {{t+|tr|paylamak}} |
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|azarlamak}}, {{t+|tr|paylamak}} |
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[[Category:English phrasal verbs]] |
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[[Category:English phrasal verbs with particle (off)]] |
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Latest revision as of 09:30, 2 June 2024
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tick off (third-person singular simple present ticks off, present participle ticking off, simple past and past participle ticked off)
- (sometimes figurative) To sign an item on a list with a tick mark, especially as a signal that the item has veen verified or completed; to check off.
- I ticked off Harry today because he announced he was present.
- I ticked three things off the list in my head, and had only four chores left to do.
- 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 53:
- A decade ago, I was a backpacker entirely reliant on the railways as a means to see Britain, and with castles as my destination. Via trains alone, I was able to tick off nearly all of the castles that my English Heritage annual pass afforded me.
- To list (create or recite a list).
- 2010, David A. Powell, Failure in the Saddle, Savas Beatie, →ISBN, page 68:
- In a lengthy missive dispatched the next afternoon, Wheeler ticked off a laundry list of reasons why he could not obey Bragg's order.
- 2023 November 8, Paul Salopek, “River Blues”, in National Geographic[1]:
- “So many wars here,” says Luo Xin, my walking partner and a brilliant writer and professor of history from Peking University.
I ask Luo to name them.
Not breaking stride, he ticks off the wars between the Three Kingdoms more than 2,200 years ago. And then the Han-Xiongnu war of the second century B.C. And Liu Bobo’s later campaigns against the Qin empire. And the Tang versus Northern Song dynasty. And the Ming frontier wars. More recently, there was the Chinese civil war and the war against Japanese aggression. The Yellow River’s silted waters sucked away casualties from them all.
- (Canada, US, transitive) To annoy, aggravate.
- It really ticks me off when people don't use proper punctuation.
- (British, Australia, transitive, historically US) To reprimand.
- Fred was ticked off by the teacher for playing around in class.
- 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed[2]:
- Having ticked us off in this way, the rascal had an elaborate description of rails at the pit mouth, and of a zigzag excavation by which funicular trains were to burrow into the earth.
Synonyms
[edit]- (list): enumerate, recite; see also Thesaurus:tick off
- (annoy): bug, irk; see also Thesaurus:annoy
- (reprimand): admonish, tell off; see also Thesaurus:criticize
Translations
[edit]to sign with a tick
to list
to annoy, aggravate
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