Meaning of ticket | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
2. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, sporting event, etc.
3. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, sporting event, etc
4. A list of election candidates belonging to a party.
5. porcini (Boletus edulis)
6. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation.
7. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, sporting event, etc
8. To attach a ticket to:label, mark, tag.
9. any bolete mushroom
10. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
11. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
12. A paper slip or card indicating that its holder has paid for or is entitled to a specified service, right, or consideration: a theater ticket; an airline ticket.
13. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site
14. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
15. A certifying document, especially a captain's or pilot's license.
16. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc
17. A certificate of qualification as a ship's master, pilot, or other crew member.
18. An identifying or descriptive tag attached to merchandise; a label.
19. A solution to a problem; something that is needed in order to do something.
    figuratively
20. A list of candidates proposed or endorsed by a political party; a slate.
21. A citation for a traffic violation.
22. A legal notice to a person charged with a violation of law, especially a minor violation.
23. A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled.
24. The proper or desirable thing: A change of scene would be just the ticket for us.
25. A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
    informal
26. Informal A means to an end: "He went to Washington ... to become press secretary ... it was his ticket out of the Delta" (Nicholas Lamann).
    Informal
27. A small note or notice.
    dated
28. To provide with a ticket for passage or admission: ticket all passengers through to Amsterdam.
29. A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
    dated
30. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
31. A visiting card.
    dated
32. A warrant.
    slang

Equivalents

Examples

“I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come?”

“train ticket   bus ticket   plane ticket”

“You must show your ticket to the conductor.”

“lottery ticket   raffle ticket”

“If I'd used my usual numbers, it would've been a winning ticket! Unlucky!”

“The variety of the demands of the railways for staff is almost endless. They require men with master's tickets as dock masters and to command their steamships.”

“That's the ticket.”

“I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.”

“"Here's the ticket. This hole's big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board."”

“"Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?" "My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest. "Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."”

“Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.”

“Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket.”

“Candidates like Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders are no longer too precious to run on the Democratic ticket, though the proposals they suggest are so ambitious — like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and free public college — that they don’t feel like compromises at all.”

“Harris’s victory comes 55 years after the Voting Rights Act abolished laws that disenfranchised Black Americans, 36 years after the first woman ran on a presidential ticket and four years after Democrats were devastated by the defeat of Hillary Clinton”

“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.”

“Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.”

“I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.”

“"Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it."”

“[…] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.”

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