"tick by" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ticks by",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticking by",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked by",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked by",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2026 June 14, Tom English, “Why Haiti v Scotland was antidote to the ills of world football”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "The minutes ticked by - nine, eight, seven. The screens behind both goals flashed up images of Scotland fans and their 1000-yard stares. Six minutes to play and Frantzdy Pierrot rises above Grant Hanley and nuts one just wide.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of tick past."
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
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          "word": "tick past"
        }
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    }
  ],
  "word": "tick by"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ticks by",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticking by",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked by",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked by",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "tick by (third-person singular simple present ticks by, present participle ticking by, simple past and past participle ticked by)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2026 June 14, Tom English, “Why Haiti v Scotland was antidote to the ills of world football”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "The minutes ticked by - nine, eight, seven. The screens behind both goals flashed up images of Scotland fans and their 1000-yard stares. Six minutes to play and Frantzdy Pierrot rises above Grant Hanley and nuts one just wide.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of tick past."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tick past",
          "tick past#English"
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          "word": "tick past"
        }
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  ],
  "word": "tick by"
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