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

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /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, 2023
• “tic” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /tik/

• (file)

• 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. 3rd person singular present indicative form of ticēt
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of ticēt
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of ticēt
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form 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)