tick

A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

Sucking up all you can / Sucking up all you can suck and suck / Working up under my patience like a little tick / Fat little parasite (parasite) / Suck me dry / My fruit is bruised and borrowed / You thieving bastards / You have turned my blood cold and bitter

A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.

The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation.

A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.

At midday, the long bond is up a tick.

A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).

A short period of time, particularly a second.

I'll be back in a tick.

A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.

To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock.

As 2020 ticked over into 2021, some 240 worksites were active on HS2's Phase 1 route between London and the West Midlands.

To make a tick or checkmark.

To work or operate, especially mechanically.

He took the computer apart to see how it ticked.

I wonder what makes her tick.

To strike gently; to pat.

Therefore you Preachers out vvith your ſvvords and ſtrike at the root; ſpeak againſt covetouſneſs, and cry out upon it. Stand not ticking and toying at the branches, nor at the boughs, for then there vvill be nevv boughs and branches ſpring again of them, but ſtrike at the root, […]

To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).