ticket

ticket

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English

Etymology

From Middle English ticket, 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.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈtɪkɪt/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈtɪkət/
  • Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

Noun

ticket (plural tickets)

  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. (politics, informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
  7. A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
  8. (dated) A little note or notice.
  9. (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
  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.
  12. (dated) A visiting card.
  13. (law enforcement slang) A warrant.
  14. A certificate of qualification as a ship's master, pilot, or other crew member.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

  • ticket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Ticket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

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.
  2. To mark with a ticket.
    to ticket goods in a retail store

Derived terms

  • ticket off

Translations

Anagrams

  • ktetic

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɪ.kət/
  • Hyphenation: tic‧ket

Noun

ticket n or m (plural tickets, diminutive ticketje n)

  1. ticket or voucher

Derived terms

  • vliegticket

Descendants

  • Indonesian: tiket

French

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English ticket, itself a borrowing from Middle French estiquet (thus a reborrowing). Doublet of étiquette

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ti.kɛ/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

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

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “ticket”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket. Doublet of etichetta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈti.ket/
  • Rhymes: -iket
  • Hyphenation: tìc‧ket

Noun

ticket m (invariable)

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

Further reading

  • ticket in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ket͡ʃ/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

  1. (Brazil) Alternative form of tíquete

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtiket/ [ˈt̪i.ket̪]
  • Rhymes: -iket
  • Syllabification: tic‧ket

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

  1. receipt

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Noun

ticket

  1. definite singular of tick

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