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Definition of Ticket

Ticket

A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.

A little note or notice.

A tradesman's bill or account.

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.

A label to show the character or price of goods.

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

A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.

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

To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California.

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Ticket Quotations

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
George Carlin

Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Hunter S. Thompson

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T. S. Eliot

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
Jackie Kennedy

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry A. Kissinger

The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.
David Ogilvy

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.
Orlando Bloom

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
Orlando Bloom

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
James Bovard

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.
Judy Garland

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan

You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.
Allen West

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Corrie Ten Boom

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
Peter Lynch

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.
Thomas E. Mann

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.
Edwin Louis Cole

Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
Uta Hagen

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.
Ian McKellen

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
Albert Finney

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
Dennis Eckersley

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.
George McGovern

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?
Howie Mandel

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.
Glenn Frey

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.
Andrzej Wajda

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.
Brandi Chastain

Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only place. But now there's none of that mystique, and so there's less of a reason to buy a ticket.
Eva Mendes

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.
Kristen Bell

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
David Soul

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Ticket Translations

ticket in Afrikaans is kaartjie
ticket in Danish is billet
ticket in Dutch is biljet, plaatsbewijs, kaartje
ticket in Finnish is lippu
ticket in French is billet, ticket, houp
ticket in German is Fahrschein, Fahrkarte, Eintrittskarte
ticket in Italian is sorte, biglietto, biglietto
ticket in Norwegian is billett
ticket in Portuguese is passagem, bilhete
ticket in Spanish is billete, boleto
ticket in Swedish is lottsedel, biljett

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