'Ticket' definitions:

Definition of 'ticket'

From: WordNet
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 label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc. [syn: tag, ticket]
noun
A summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation)
noun
A list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices [syn: slate, ticket]
noun
The appropriate or desirable thing; "this car could be just the ticket for a small family" [syn: ticket, just the ticket]
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!" [syn: ticket, fine]
verb
Provide with a ticket for passage or admission; "Ticketed passengers can board now"

Definition of 'Ticket'

From: GCIDE
  • Ticket \Tick"et\, n. [F. ['e]tiquette 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: [1913 Webster] (a) A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] (b) A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick. [1913 Webster]
  • Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets On ticket for his mistress. --J. Cotgrave. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] (d) A label to show the character or price of goods. [1913 Webster] (e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like. [1913 Webster] (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.] [1913 Webster]
  • The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes. --Sarah Franklin (1766). [1913 Webster]
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Ticket'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'ticket'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Ticket'