[ˈtɪkɪt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a piece of paper or card that gives the holder a certain right, especially to enter a place, travel by public transport, or participate in an event
(e.g: admission is by ticket only)

- a certificate or warrant

- a label attached to a retail product, giving its price, size, and other details

- a list of candidates put forward by a party in an election
(e.g: his presence on the Republican ticket)

- the desirable or correct thing
(e.g: a wet spring would be just the ticket for the garden)

- a person of a specified kind
(e.g: I think you're all a bunch of sick tickets)


Phrases:
- be tickets
- have tickets on oneself
- punch one's ticket
- write one's own ticket

Origin:
early 16th century (in the general senses ‘short written note’ and ‘a licence or permit’): shortening of obsolete French étiquet, from Old French estiquet(te), from estiquier ‘to fix’, from Middle Dutch steken. Compare with etiquette

[ˈtɪkɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- issue (someone) with an official notice of a traffic offence
(e.g: park illegally and you are likely to be ticketed)

- (of a passenger) be issued with a travel ticket
(e.g: passengers can now get electronically ticketed)

- (of a retail product) be marked with a label giving its price, size, and other details
(e.g: the sports jacket had been ticketed at two hundred dollars)


Phrases:
- be tickets
- have tickets on oneself
- punch one's ticket
- write one's own ticket

Origin:
early 16th century (in the general senses ‘short written note’ and ‘a licence or permit’): shortening of obsolete French étiquet, from Old French estiquet(te), from estiquier ‘to fix’, from Middle Dutch steken. Compare with etiquette