TICKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ticket mean? 

• TICKET (noun)
  The noun TICKET has 5 senses:

1. a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)

2. a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.

3. a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation)

4. a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices

5. the appropriate or desirable thing

  Familiarity information: TICKET used as a noun is common.

• TICKET (verb)
  The verb TICKET has 2 senses:

1. issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty

2. provide with a ticket for passage or admission

  Familiarity information: TICKET used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TICKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ticket" is a kind of...):

commercial document; commercial instrument (a document of or relating to commerce)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ticket"):

commutation ticket; season ticket (a ticket good for several trips or to attend a season of entertainments; sold at a reduced rate)

airplane ticket; plane ticket (a ticket good for a trip on an airplane)

pass (a complimentary ticket)

transfer (a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances)

railroad ticket; train ticket (a ticket good for a ride on a railroad train)

theater ticket; theatre ticket (a ticket good for admission to a theater)

bus ticket (a ticket good for a ride on a bus)

return ticket; round-trip ticket (a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route))

Derivation:

ticket (provide with a ticket for passage or admission)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

tag; ticket

Hypernyms ("ticket" is a kind of...):

label (an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ticket"):

dog tag (metal plate on a dog collar bearing its registration number)

dog tag (military identification tag worn on a chain around the neck)

name tag (a tag showing the name of the person who wears it)

price tag (a tag showing the price of the article it is attached to)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ticket" is a kind of...):

process; summons (a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ticket"):

speeding ticket (a ticket issued for driving above the speed limit)

parking ticket (a ticket issued for parking in a restricted place)

Derivation:

ticket (issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

slate; ticket

Hypernyms ("ticket" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Sense 5

Meaning:

The appropriate or desirable thing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

just the ticket; ticket

Context example:

this car could be just the ticket for a small family

Hypernyms ("ticket" is a kind of...):

appropriateness (the quality of being specially suitable)

• TICKET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ticket    ... he / she / it tickets   
Past simple: ticketed   
Past participle: ticketed   
-ing form: ticketing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

fine; ticket

Context example:

Move your car or else you will be ticketed!

Hypernyms (to "ticket" is one way to...):

book (record a charge in a police register)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ticket"):

amerce (punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

ticket (a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide with a ticket for passage or admission

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

Ticketed passengers can board now

Hypernyms (to "ticket" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

ticket (a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment))

 Context examples 

The ticket would have shown which station was nearest the agent’s house.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For example, tickets should not get in contact with food –for instance, meat or fish– while unpacking it in the kitchen.

(Purchase receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer- and infertility inducing substances, University of Granada)

I have another great day for you to buy your tickets—December 24 or 25.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"Any advance?—for rail-road ticket and extras?"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They used to send father tickets when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and sent them to mother.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall have all tickets and so forth for our journey.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then, having taken another look round, I returned to my carriage, where I found that the porter, in spite of the ticket, had given me my decrepit Italian friend as a traveling companion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Return ticket from Mackleton, in the north of England,” said Holmes, drawing it from the watch-pocket.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was agreed to, and Mrs. Phillips protested that they would have a nice comfortable noisy game of lottery tickets, and a little bit of hot supper afterwards.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The tickets were theoretically confined to members and their friends, but the latter is an elastic term, and long before eight o'clock, the hour fixed for the commencement of the proceedings, all parts of the Great Hall were tightly packed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)