Pic vs. Tic

Picnoun

(informal) A picture, especially a photographic image.

Ticnoun

A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.

Picnoun

(informal) A film.

Ticnoun

Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically.

Picnoun

A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

Ticnoun

ticket

Picnoun

a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;

‘they went to a movie every Saturday night’; ‘the film was shot on location’;

Ticverb

(intransitive) To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement.

Picnoun

a picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

Ticnoun

A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; - called also spasmodic tic.

Ticnoun

a local and habitual twitching especially in the face

Ticnoun

a habitual spasmodic contraction of the muscles, most often in the face.

Ticnoun

an idiosyncratic and habitual feature of a person's behaviour

‘they've developed a verbal tic which involves repeating odd bits of each other's utterances’;

Tic

A tic is a sudden, repetitive, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization involving discrete muscle groups. Tics can be invisible to the observer, such as abdominal tensing or toe crunching.