tic
nomverbenomattesté dans les dialogues
- Australie//tɪk//
- Nouvelle-Zélande//tək//
A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
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A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
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).
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Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically.
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.
Étymologie
Borrowed from French tic.
verbe
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To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement.
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.
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Variante de ticketfamilierClipping of ticket.
Étymologie
Clipping of ticket.
Formes
- pluriel
- tics
- passé
- ticced
- participe passé
- ticced
- participe présent
- ticcing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- tics
tic · A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
tick · A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.tick-tock · The sound of the ticking of an analog clock.ticket · A small document that acts as proof of something, often…