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UK
/tˈɪk/
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[ US /ˈtɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈtɪk/ ]
NOUN
- a local and habitual twitching especially in the face
How To Use tic In A Sentence
- In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally. Times, Sunday Times
- What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
- She tore her eyes from them for a moment to spy the bodhrán player in the tree, tapping out her rhythm with her eyes closed, not noticing the spy amongst them.
- Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary. Times, Sunday Times
- The critics call its recipes bland, unhelpful, unoriginal and unhealthy. The Sun
- Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
- This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
- Dom recognized a master tactician when he saw one. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
- The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
- Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.