What's the difference between ticking and tickling?

Ticking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tick
  • (n.) A strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) % hatch X 20000) of ticks from treated cattle with that of ticks from untreated cattle.
  • (2) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (3) Four of the 39 ticks in our colony were infected with a spirochete; presumably, Borrelia crocidurae.
  • (4) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
  • (5) The implications of the findings in terms of strategic tick control are discussed.
  • (6) Most of the infection was attributed to T. parva parva by application of field ticks to susceptible cattle.
  • (7) In the first trial to investigate the effect of tick control, significant improvements in liveweight gain (LWG) occurred only in periods of medium to high challenge with adult Amblyomma variegatum.
  • (8) A total of 3,532 females of various engorged weights was collected from all calves, resulting in a mean female tick yield of 1.78% based on the number of larvae used for all infestations.
  • (9) Eleven virus strains were isolated from ticks Hyalomma asiaticum asiaticum Schulce et Schlottke, 1929, and Hyalomma plumbeum plumbeum Panzer, 1796,collected in 1971-1974 in desert regions of the Uzbee S.S.R.
  • (10) But as an entertaining family experience, it ticks almost every box.
  • (11) Viruses isolated from ticks (Ixodes uriae) from a seabird colony on the Isle of May, Scotland, were shown by complement fixation tests to be related to the Uukuniemi and Kemerovo serogroups.
  • (12) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (13) The test is both highly specific and sensitive and can be applied to a wide range of studies on heartwater, including epidemiology, determination of the C. ruminantium infection rate of Amblyomma ticks and the evaluation of immunization against heartwater.
  • (14) Infected ticks were reared from larvae feeding on each of 11 rabbits taken from the same site.
  • (15) Approximately one third of all students said that ticks had a significant or very significant impact on duty performance.
  • (16) Investigations carried out in Pavlodar Province have shown that 7 species of ixodid ticks, Ixodes crenulatus, I. lividus, I. persulcatus, I. laguri laguri, Dermacentor marginatus, D. reticulatus, Haemaphysalis concinna, and one brought species, Hyalomma asiaticum, parasitize domestic animals and wild mammals.
  • (17) Ecologic studies of small mammals in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) were conducted in 1974 in order to identify the specific habitats within the Lower Montane Forest that support Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus.
  • (18) The absence of strict restrictions for the feeding on unusual species of hosts has caused the domination of polyphagy and oligophagy over monophagy among ixodid ticks.
  • (19) Adult Ambylomma variegatum ticks were collected from 184 cattle, 13 sheep and one goat in Antigua, and ground in phosphate buffered saline.
  • (20) Experiments were conducted with the tick-borne encephalitis (TE) virus; confirmation of a protective action of cellular immunity in mice was obtained.

Tickling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tickle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The current script is still being tickled every day.
  • (2) However, nurturers of Britain’s nascent wine industry with an eye on an emerging market, where appreciation of wine is a status symbol, might hope that senior communist party palettes will have been tickled by the Ridgeview Grosvenor 2009, a sparking English wine originating in West Sussex.
  • (3) In man, lesions of the posterior columns cause an increase in pain, tickle, warmth and cold.
  • (4) "I'd be tickled to death if it would make 50 bushels (1.5 tonnes), if we don't have rain," he said.
  • (5) They remember his louche looseness with the facts , his willingness to invent stories of EU straight-banana absurdity to tickle the prejudices of his readers back home.
  • (6) "We got together in LA without her, just to see what we got, like we could seduce her in the process, come up with something that would tickle her ears and she'd go: 'Oh wow, you guys are really up to something good here'.
  • (7) Four profoundly hearing-impaired adults who did not meet current selection criteria for implantation at the University of Melbourne were each fitted with a wearable multichannel electrotactile speech processor (Tickle Talker).
  • (8) He was tickled, once, while walking through Greenwich Village, to see "a guy came along the street wearing a muscle T-shirt, very tight.
  • (9) The children were able to use tactile input to achieve higher scores on three speech feature subtests of the PLOTT test when using the Tickle Talker plus hearing aids as compared to hearing aids alone.
  • (10) Now, I love this sort of thing – it's my job to be tickled by it – but there comes a point when you finally have to ask, where is your movie, Mr Verbinski?
  • (11) The recording tickled him because it sounds nothing like a car, but exactly like the sound of a cow mooing.
  • (12) For myself, it’s not something I’ve been accustomed to experimenting with.” Spy review – uproarious Paul Feig comedy tickles SXSW Read more Feig wrote the part especially for Statham.
  • (13) Although the subjects' stimulations were unaffected by looking at the gestures, the tactual stimulus elicited a tickle sensation.
  • (14) As part of a larger subject group, four profoundly hearing-impaired children enrolled in a total communication educational program were fitted with the University of Melbourne's multichannel electrotactile speech processor (Tickle Talker).
  • (15) To study these, Ss rated perceived "tickle-strength" in situations where they were tickled: (a) with their eyes closed; (b) with their eyes open; (c) with their own arm doing the tickling, but being moved by someone else; (d) by themselves.
  • (16) Leat was also seen lifting up and touching young girls in the playground and tickling and cuddling pupils in class.
  • (17) We examined separately tickle perception and pleasure and anxiety during sexual sequence of 40 dermapathic (20 men and 22 women) and 39 normal subjects (20 men and 19 women) aged between 35 and 40 yr.
  • (18) Pregnancy leads to modifications in sensitivity to tickle, specifically with regard to the right half of the body and to some extent in body schema.
  • (19) "His promised new party is far from certain to get into parliament, but depending on how well it tickles the fancies of some of the more radical, marginalised, and disillusioned voters and non-voters, the so-called Mega party could have a huge impact on who forms the next government."
  • (20) The biological baseline here is usually the laughter caused by tickling, which most of us assume to be some simple form of reflex action.