ticket

Meanings

Noun

• A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
• A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
• A citation for a traffic violation.
• A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
• A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally technical support related).
• A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
• A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
• A little note or notice.
• A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
• A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
• A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
• A visiting card.
• A warrant.

Verb

• To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
• To mark with a ticket.

Origin

• From Middle English ticket, from Old French etiquet, *estiquet, and etiquette, estiquette, from Old French estechier ("to attach, stick"), (compare Picard estiquier ("to stick, pierce")), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan, from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- ("to be sharp, to stab"). etiquette. More at stick.