mosquito vs tick

mosquito

noun
  • A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever. 

verb
  • To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course. 

tick

noun
  • A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement. 

  • Credit, trust. 

  • The whinchat. 

  • A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds. 

  • A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency). 

  • A short period of time, particularly a second. 

  • A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida. 

  • Ticking. 

  • A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect. 

  • A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling. 

  • A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery. 

  • A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement. 

verb
  • To strike gently; to pat. 

  • To make a tick or checkmark. 

  • To go on trust, or credit. 

  • To work or operate, especially mechanically. 

  • To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard). 

  • To give tick; to trust. 

  • To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock. 

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