ticket
verb
- give a ticket to someone
noun
- paper or cardboard document showing payment for access to an event or service
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪk.ɪt/ / /ˈtɪk.ət/
noun
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.
- A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
“I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come?”
- A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
“train ticket bus ticket plane ticket”
“You must show your ticket to the conductor.”
- A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
- A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
“lottery ticket raffle ticket”
“If I'd used my usual numbers, it would've been a winning ticket! Unlucky!”
- A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
“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 small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
“That's the ticket.”
“I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.”
- 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 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."”
- 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.”
- 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.”
“Under each coin was a circular ticket with written particulars of the specimen accompanying it.”
- 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.”
“"Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it."”
- A warrant.
“[…] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.”
verb
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.
- 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”