ticket

[TickĀ·et]

A commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)

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A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.

Noun
the appropriate or desirable thing; "this car could be just the ticket for a small family"

Noun
a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices

Noun
a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)

Noun
a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation)

Verb
provide with a ticket for passage or admission; "Ticketed passengers can board now"

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Verb
issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty; "I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street"; "Move your car or else you will be ticketed!"


v.
A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.

v.
A little note or notice.

v.
A tradesman's bill or account.

v.
A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.

v.
A label to show the character or price of goods.

v.
A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.

v.
A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.

v. t.
To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.

v. t.
To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California.


Ticket

Tick"et , n. [F. '82tiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette, or OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, n. & v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick credit.] A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically: -- (a) A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local]
He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.
(b) A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.] &hand; Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick.
Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets On ticket for his mistress.
(c) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket. (d) A label to show the character or price of goods. (e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like. (f) (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot. [U.S.]
The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes.
Scratched ticket, a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out. -- Split ticket, a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two or more parties. -- Straight ticket, a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party, without change. -- Ticket day (Com.), the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another. [Eng.] Simmonds. -- Ticket of leave, a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions. [Eng.] Simmonds. -- Ticket porter, a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified. [Eng.]

Ticket

Tick"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ticketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ticketing.] 1. To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods. 2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. [U.S.]

A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.

To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.

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Usage Examples

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.

Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!'

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

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Other Usage Examples

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs people do Civil War re-enactments people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.

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