"tick past" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ticks past",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticking past",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked past",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked past",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "tick past (third-person singular simple present ticks past, present participle ticking past, simple past and past participle ticked past)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (past)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The years just continue to tick past.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The bad election results kept coming in, ticking past me one by one on the bottom of the television screen.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Nick Cave (lyrics and music), “Albert Goes West”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds",
          "text": "Me, I ain't going anywhere / Just sit and watch the sun come up, I like it here / Oh yeah, I watch the people go ticking past",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue over time."
      ],
      "id": "en-tick_past-en-verb-0yyn2aFo",
      "links": [
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "time or time-keeping devices",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive or transitive, of events, time or time-keeping devices) To continue over time."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of events"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tick past"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ticks past",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticking past",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked past",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ticked past",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "tick past (third-person singular simple present ticks past, present participle ticking past, simple past and past participle ticked past)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (past)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The years just continue to tick past.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The bad election results kept coming in, ticking past me one by one on the bottom of the television screen.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Nick Cave (lyrics and music), “Albert Goes West”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds",
          "text": "Me, I ain't going anywhere / Just sit and watch the sun come up, I like it here / Oh yeah, I watch the people go ticking past",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue over time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "time or time-keeping devices",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive or transitive, of events, time or time-keeping devices) To continue over time."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of events"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tick past"
}