What is "ticket"

Ticket \Tick"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ticketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ticketing.]

1. To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.

2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. [U. S.]

Ticket \Tick"et\, n. [F. ['e]tiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette, or OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, n. & v., and cf. Etiquette, Tick credit.] A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically:

1. A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local]

   He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.
   --Fuller.

2. A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.]

   Note: Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick.

   Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets On ticket for his mistress.
   --J. Cotgrave.

3. A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.

4. A label to show the character or price of goods.

5. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.

6. (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot. [U. S.]

   The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes.
   --Sarah Franklin (1766).

   Scratched ticket, a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out.

   Split ticket, a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two or more parties.

   Straight ticket, a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party, without change.

   Ticket day (Com.), the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another. [Eng.]
   --Simmonds.

   Ticket of leave, a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions. [Eng.]
   --Simmonds.

   Ticket porter, a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified. [Eng.]

1520s, "short note or document," from a shortened form of Middle French etiquet "label, note," from Old French estiquette "a little note" (late 14c.), especially one affixed to a gate or wall as a public notice, literally "something stuck (up or on)," from estiquer "to affix, stick on, attach," from Frankish *stikkan, cognate with Old English stician "to pierce," from Proto-Germanic *stikken "to be stuck," stative form from PIE *steig- "to stick; pointed" (see stick (v.)).\n

\nMeaning "card or piece of paper that gives its holder a right or privilege" is first recorded 1670s, probably developing from the sense of "certificate, license, permit." The political sense of "list of candidates put forward by a faction" has been used in American English since 1711. Meaning "official notification of offense" is from 1930. Big ticket item is from 1953. Slang the ticket "just the thing, what is expected" is recorded from 1838, perhaps with notion of a winning lottery ticket.

1610s, "attach a ticket to, put a label on," from ticket (n.). Meaning "issue a (parking) ticket to" is from 1955. Related: Ticketed; ticketing.

n. 1 A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc. 2 A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation 3 A citation for a traffic violation. 4 A permit to operate a machine on a construction site. 5 A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally ISP related). 6 (context informal English) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto. 7 A solution to a problem; something that is needed. vb. To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.

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

3. a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices [syn: slate]

4. the appropriate or desirable thing; "this car could be just the ticket for a small family" [syn: just the ticket]

1. v. issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty; "I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street"; "Move your car or else you will be ticketed!" [syn: fine]

2. provide with a ticket for passage or admission; "Ticketed passengers can board now"

A ticket is a voucher that indicates that one has paid for admission to an event or establishment such as a theatre, amusement park or tourist attraction, or permission to travel on a vehicle (such as with an airline ticket, bus ticket or train ticket) typically because one has paid the fare. A ticket may be free, and serve simply as a proof of reservation.

Ticket is a film produced by Im Kwon-taek in 1985. It depicts the sometimes brutal life of the Korean tabang girls. Tabangs are coffee houses in Korea and many offer outcall services in which the girls deliver coffee to customers, and sometimes extra sexual services for a price termed a "ticket". The price of the ticket is W25,000 which the customer pays to the proprietor of the tabang. The customer and the girl usually negotiate for extra services. Sometimes the customer will take the girl to a norebong just to sing. At other times the customer may just enjoy the company of the young lady at a meal in a restaurant. The extra meal and or the norebong of course are paid for by the customer.

Ticket or tickets may refer to:

• Airline ticket, a document created by an airline or a travel agent to confirm that an individual has purchased a seat on an airplane
• Electronic ticket, an electronic form of an transport ticket, entrance ticket etc.
• KTCK, AM 1310 & FM 104.1, a radio station in Dallas, Texas, USA, known as "The Ticket"
• Lottery ticket
• Parking ticket, a ticket confirming that the parking fee was paid (and the time of the parking start)
• Ticket (admission) (entrance ticket), a card or slip of paper used to gain admission to a location or event
• Ticket (election), a single election choice which fills more than one political office or seat
• Ticket (film), a film produced by Im Kwon Taek in 1985
• Ticket (IT security), a number generated by a network server as a means of authentication
• Ticket (toll collection), a slip of paper used to indicate where vehicles entered a toll road to charge based on an established rate when they exit
• Ticket, a file in an issue tracking system documenting a reported problem and the steps taken to resolve it
• Ticket cases, a series of cases in contract law
• Traffic ticket, a notice issued by a law enforcement official accusing violation of traffic laws
• Train ticket, a document issued by a railway operator that enables the bearer to travel by train
• Tickets (film), a 2005 film
• "Tickets" (song), a song by Maroon 5 from their album Overexposed
• Tickets, the online currency in the massively multiplayer online game Roblox

A ticket refers to a single election choice which fills more than one political office or seat. For example, in the U.S., the candidates for President and Vice President run on the same "ticket", because they are elected together on a single ballot question rather than separately.

A ticket can also refer to a political party. In this case, the candidates for a given party are said to be running on the party's ticket. "Straight party voting" (most common in some U.S. states) is voting for the entire party ticket, including every office for which the party has a candidate running. Particularly in the era of mechanical voting machines, it was possible to accomplish this in many jurisdictions by the use of a "party lever" which automatically cast a vote for each member of the party by the activation of a single lever. Ticket Splitters are people who vote for candidates from more than one political party when they vote for public offices, voting on the basis of individual personalities and records instead of on the basis of party loyalties.

While a ticket usually does refer to a political party, they are not legally the same. In rare cases, members of a political party can run against their party's official candidate by running with a rival party's ticket label or creating a new ticket under an independent or ad hoc party label depending on the jurisdiction's election laws. Depending on the party's rules, these rogue members may retain the membership of their original party. Thus two individuals from one political party can oppose each other under different tickets. This was the case for incumbent Senator Joseph Lieberman, who ran against his Democratic Party's official candidate for re-election in 2006.

Political party factions may also sponsor tickets in primary elections. When that occurs, several candidates, usually one for each office for which the party's nomination is being contested in the primary, endorse one another and may make joint appearances and share advertising with the goal of securing the party's nomination for the office each is seeking for all ticket members. This system was frequently seen in the " Solid South" era in the Southern United States when there was no effective two party system and victory in the Democratic Party primary was considered to be " tantamount to election".

In IT Security, a ticket is a number generated by a network server for a client, which can be delivered to itself, or a different server as a means of authentication or proof of authorization, and cannot easily be forged. This usage of the word originated with MIT's Kerberos protocol in the 1980s. Tickets may either be transparent, meaning they can be recognized without contacting the server that generated them; or opaque, meaning the original server must be contacted to verify that it issued the ticket.

Some magic cookies provide the same functionality as a ticket.

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