an admonition or reprimand

the idling of an engine / (by extension) doing a gentle amount of work

(intransitive, of an engine) to idle (to run at a slow speed, or out of gear). / (idiomatic, of, e.g. a process or a business) To run smoothly and without problems.

(Britain) The completion of a form containing multiple-choice questions in which one or more boxes need to be ticked by way of an answer.

simple past tense and past participle of tick off

A small, immature tick larva.

(pathology) any of various diseases transmitted by ticks

To make continual clicking sounds like those of an analog clock.

Alternative form of tick tock

Clicking sounds like those of an analog clock.