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Webster 1913 Edition

Ticket

Tick′et

,
Noun.
[F.
étiquette
a label, ticket, fr. OF.
estiquette
, or OF.
etiquet
,
estiquet
; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E.
stick
. See
Stick
,
Noun.
&
Verb.
, and cf.
Etiquette
,
Tick
credit.]
A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
Specifically: –
(a)
A little note or notice.
[Obs. or Local]
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.
Fuller.
(b)
A tradesman’s bill or account.
[Obs.]
☞ Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st
Tick
.
Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets
On ticket
for his mistress.
J. Cotgrave.
(c)
A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance;
as, a theater
ticket
; a railroad or steamboat
ticket
.
(d)
A label to show the character or price of goods.
(e)
A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
(f)
(Politics)
A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.
[U. S.]
The old
ticket
forever! We have it by thirty-four votes.
Sarah Franklin (1766).
Scratched ticket
,
a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out.
–
Split ticket
,
a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two or more parties.
–
Straight ticket
,
a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party, without change.
–
Ticket day
(Com.)
,
the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another.
[Eng.]
Simmonds.
–
Ticket of leave
,
a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions.
[Eng.]
Simmonds.
–
Ticket porter
,
a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified.
[Eng.]

Tick′et

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Ticketed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Ticketing
.]
1.
To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on;
as, to
ticket
goods
.
2.
To furnish with a tickets; to book;
as, to
ticket
passengers to California
.
[U. S.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Ticket

TICK'ET

, n.
1.
A piece of paper or a card, which gives the holder a right of admission to some place; as a ticket for the play-house or for other exhibition.
2.
A piece of paper or writing, acknowledging some debt, or a certificate that something is due to the holder.
3.
A piece of paper bearing some number in a lottery, which entitles the owner to receive such prize as may be drawn against that number. When it draws no prize, it is said to draw a blank, and the holder has nothing to receive.

TICK'ET

,
Verb.
T.
To distinguish by a ticket.

Definition 2024

Ticket

Ticket

See also: ticket

German

Noun

Ticket n ‎(genitive Tickets, plural Tickets)

  1. ticket

ticket

ticket

See also: Ticket

English

Noun

ticket ‎(plural tickets or tix)

A ticket.
  1. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
  2. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
  3. A citation for a traffic violation.
  4. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
  5. A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally technical support related).
  6. (informal) 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.
    Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket.
  7. A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
    That's the ticket.
    I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.
    • 1884, Mark Twain, chapter 34, in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ISBN 0-553-21079-3:
      "Here's the ticket. This hole's big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board."
  8. (dated) A little note or notice.
    • Fuller
      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.
  9. (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
    • J. Cotgrave
      Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.
  10. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
  11. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.

Derived terms

Translations

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Verb

ticket ‎(third-person singular simple present tickets, present participle ticketing, simple past and past participle ticketed)

  1. To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.

Derived terms

  • ticket off

Translations

French

Etymology

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ti.kɛ/

Noun

ticket m ‎(plural tickets)

  1. ticket (admission, pass)
  2. receipt
  3. (Quebec) ticket (traffic citation)

Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

ticket m ‎(invariable)

  1. prescription charge
  2. ticket stub (especially at a horserace)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English ticket.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ket͡ʃ/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

  1. ticket (slip entitling the holder to something)

Synonyms

Spanish

Etymology

English

Noun

ticket m ‎(plural tickets)

  1. receipt

Swedish

Noun

ticket

  1. definite singular of tick

Etymology

From Middle English ticket, from Old 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 *stikkan, *stikjan ‎(“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną ‎(“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *st(e)ig-, *(s)teyg- ‎(“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈtɪkɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

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