tic

Borrowed from French tic.

• IPA^(key): /tɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪk
• Homophone: tick

tic (plural tics)

1. (neurology) A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
   • 2020, Andrea E. Cavanna, Pharmacological Treatment of Tics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by multiple tics. A tic is a sudden, rapid, repetitive, non-rhythmic movement (e.g. eye blinking) or vocalization (e.g. throat clearing).

2. (by extension) Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically.
   • 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian‎:

     Boyle revives some of the stylistic tics which found themselves being ripped off by geezer-gangster Britflicks back in the day, but now the freezeframes are briefer, sharper; the movie itself refers back to the original with variant flashback versions of famous scenes, but also Super 8-type images of the boys’ poignant boyhood in primary school.

3. (abbreviation, informal) ticket

tic (third-person singular simple present tics, present participle ticcing, simple past and past participle ticced)

1. (intransitive) To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement.
   • 2020, Andrea E. Cavanna, Pharmacological Treatment of Tics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     Patients often describe the need to tic as the mounting of inner tension, localized either to the body region where the tic is about to occur or throughout the body.

• tic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• CTI, ICT, TCI, cit, cit.

tic

1. work

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈtik]

tic m (plural tics)

1. tic

• “tic” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “tic”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tic” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /tik/

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• Homophone: tique

tic m (plural tics)

1. tic

• → English: tic
• → German: Tic
• → Portuguese: tique

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtik/[1]
• Rhymes: -ik
• Hyphenation: tìc

tic m (invariable)

1. tic, twitch

tic

1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of ticēt
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of ticēt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of ticēt

tic n (plural ticuri)

1. Obsolete form of spic.

• tic in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈtik/ [ˈt̪ik]
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: tic

tic m (plural tics)

1. tic (movement)
2. tick (written mark)
3. tick (sound)

• tictac/tic-tac
• tictaquear

• “tic”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from French tic. Attested since 1885.

tic n

1. (neurology, chiefly in the plural) a tic
2. (colloquial, figuratively, chiefly in the plural) (unreasonable) compulsory behavior, a tic

• tics in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tics in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tic in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)