ticket Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)
  2. noun a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
    tag.
  3. noun a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation)
  4. noun a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices
    slate.
  5. noun the appropriate or desirable thing
    just the ticket.
    • this car could be just the ticket for a small family
  6. verb issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty
    fine.
    • I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street
    • Move your car or else you will be ticketed!
  7. verb provide with a ticket for passage or admission
    • Ticketed passengers can board now

WordNet

Tick"et noun
Etymology
F. étiquette 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.
Definitions
  1. A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically: -- (a) A little note or notice. Obs. or Local
    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.
    (b) A tradesman's bill or account. Obs. ✍ Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick.
    Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets On ticket for his mistress. J. Cotgrave.
    (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. (d) A label to show the character or price of goods. (e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like. (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.
    The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes. Sarah Franklin (1766).
Tick"et transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Ticketed; present participle & verbal noun Ticketing
Definitions
  1. To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.
  2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. U.S. Ticketed. having a ticket, esp. a ticket for travel on a carrier sucha as an airline. A term used to distinguish those who have made a reservation for travel, but have not yet paid and received their ticket, from those who have. "You have a reservation, but you have not yet been ticketed."

Webster 1913