0 present participle of tick
1 When a clock or watch ticks, it makes a sound every second:
2 to mark something with a tick:
Or are the molecular 'clocks' horological nightmares sometimes running absurdly fast, and other times scarcely ticking?
The set of tickings of an eternal clock which began ticking yesterday is, for example, potentially infinite.
That is, the clock starts ticking and all emissions are cumulated for each country even during negotiations.
Unless the specific discourse of music itself is central to the educational transaction, there is little virtue in ticking check-lists of generally appropriate teacher behaviour.
For unionist politicians, history provided a sense of a ticking clock.
There is a link to the next section (like the ticking from around 29310), this time an acoustic cymbal roll.
For instance, a patient who was locked in the closet had an isolated memory of the smell of old clothes and the sound of a clock ticking.
We heard the ticking of the clock.