US /tɪk əˈwe/
・UK /tik əˈwei/
The seconds tick away faster when you're looking for a red ball in the right cup.
The seconds tick away faster when you're looking for a red ball in the right cup
he knows there's a clock of his doom that begins to tick away when the flag of Israel flies again.
and he knows there's a clock of his doom that begins to tick away when the flag of Israel flies again.
but instead of counting the swings of a pendulum to tick away time, it counts the frequency of radiation from supercooled cesium-133 atoms, which can absorb and re-emit radiation vibrating exactly 9, 192, 631, 770 times each second.
That's because, unlike pendulums and quartz crystals, the cesium atoms these clocks use to tick away time are not "similar," but they are absolutely existential crisis-level identical,
We can get a tick away and sit on the couch.