ticket
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law-enforcement
politics
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: tickets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tickets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ticketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ticketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ticketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
pos: noun
examples: I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come?
gloss: A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
pos: noun
examples: train ticket   bus ticket   plane ticket
You must show your ticket to the conductor.
gloss: A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
pos: noun
gloss: A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
pos: noun
examples: lottery ticket   raffle ticket
If I'd used my usual numbers, it would've been a winning ticket! Unlucky!
gloss: A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: That's the ticket.
I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.
"Here's the ticket. This hole's big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board."
gloss: A citation for a traffic violation.
pos: noun
gloss: A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled.
pos: noun
examples: "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 was more than a little dishonest.
"Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."
gloss: A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.
Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket.
Candidates like Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders are no longer too precious to run on the Democratic ticket, though the proposals they suggest are so ambitious — like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and free public college — that they don’t feel like compromises at all.
Harris’s victory comes 55 years after the Voting Rights Act abolished laws that disenfranchised Black Americans, 36 years after the first woman ran on a presidential ticket and four years after Democrats were devastated by the defeat of Hillary Clinton
gloss: A small note or notice.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 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.
Under each coin was a circular ticket with written particulars of the specimen accompanying it.
gloss: A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.
gloss: A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
pos: noun
gloss: A visiting card.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 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.
"Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it."
gloss: A warrant.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: […] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.
gloss: To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
pos: verb
gloss: To mark with a ticket.
pos: verb
examples: to ticket goods in a retail store
Related words: Ticket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Derived words: airline ticket
airplane ticket
air ticket
all-ticket
back to back ticket
balance the ticket
beer ticket
big-ticket
big ticket
big-ticket item
blue ticket
boiler ticket
bread ticket
buy a ticket to
commutation ticket
couldn't organise a two-ticket raffle
cross-border ticket
down-ticket
e-ticket
E ticket
exit ticket
flight ticket
golden ticket
hard-ticket
have tickets on oneself
high-ticket
hot ticket
incident ticket system
just the ticket
kangaroo ticket
like a pakapoo ticket
lottery ticket
meal ticket
meat ticket
multiticket
nonticket
one-way ticket
one-way ticket to Palookaville
paper ticket
parking ticket
pawnticket
pink ticket
plane ticket
platform ticket
punch someone's ticket
reticket
return ticket
round-trip ticket
season ticket
seat reservation ticket
sell wolf tickets
shit ticket
single ticket
small-ticket
smart ticket
speeding ticket
split ticket
straight ticket
support ticket
support ticket system
that's the ticket
that's the ticket for soup
the full ticket
through-ticket
ticketable
ticket agent
ticket barrier
ticketbooth
ticket booth
ticket-collector
ticket collector
ticket day
ticket designator
ticketer
ticket gate
ticket hall
ticket-holder
ticket inspection
ticket-inspector
ticket inspector
ticketless
ticket machine
ticketmate
ticket office
ticket of leave
ticket-of-leave
ticket of occupation
ticket pocket
ticket point mileage
ticket porter
ticket-porter
ticket printer
ticket-puncher
ticket puncher
ticket-stamping machine
ticket stamping machine
ticket time limit
ticket to ride
ticket tout
ticket vending machine
ticket window
traffic ticket
train ticket
trouble ticket
trouble ticket system
Tyburn ticket
underticket
visiting ticket
walking ticket
wolf's ticket
wolf ticket
woof ticket
write one's own ticket
yellow ticket
nonticketed
ticket off
unticketed
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