"make tick" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "An allusion to the workings of a clock making it operate with a ticking noise",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes tick",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making tick",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made tick",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made tick",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> tick"
      },
      "expansion": "make tick (third-person singular simple present makes tick, present participle making tick, simple past and past participle made tick)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Cherie Priest, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, page 91",
          "text": "I honestly don't know the specifics that make him tick, and I wish I did.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kevin Seamus Hasson, The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America",
          "text": "Most of us find ourselves caught in the middle, ducking for cover and wondering just who these people are and what could possibly make them tick.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Betty Lussier, Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945",
          "text": "I wanted to roam the world, exploring what made it tick, helping to make it tick better, and never get married.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause someone or something to operate the way it does."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_tick-en-verb-hfEkI4-2",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To cause someone or something to operate the way it does."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, tick."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_tick-en-verb-thjOMBn7",
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make#English"
        ],
        [
          "tick",
          "tick#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make tick"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "An allusion to the workings of a clock making it operate with a ticking noise",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes tick",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making tick",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made tick",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made tick",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> tick"
      },
      "expansion": "make tick (third-person singular simple present makes tick, present participle making tick, simple past and past participle made tick)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Cherie Priest, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, page 91",
          "text": "I honestly don't know the specifics that make him tick, and I wish I did.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kevin Seamus Hasson, The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America",
          "text": "Most of us find ourselves caught in the middle, ducking for cover and wondering just who these people are and what could possibly make them tick.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Betty Lussier, Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945",
          "text": "I wanted to roam the world, exploring what made it tick, helping to make it tick better, and never get married.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause someone or something to operate the way it does."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To cause someone or something to operate the way it does."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, tick."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make#English"
        ],
        [
          "tick",
          "tick#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make tick"
}