tic

IPA: tˈɪk

(neurology) A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
(by extension) Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically.
(abbreviation, informal) ticket
(finance) Total invested capital.
Initialism of tourist information centre.
(law) Initialism of tenancy in common. [(law) A form of ownership by two or more individuals in which each owner has a distinct, separately transferable interest which does not pass to the other owner or owners upon death.]
(countable, UK, criminal law, law enforcement) Initialism of offence to be taken into consideration. [(UK, criminal law, law enforcement) An additional criminal offence which a defendant agrees to admit to following their conviction, which is formally taken into account when they are sentenced, but with a lesser weight than a full conviction.]
(cytology) Initialism of translocon on inner chloroplast membrane.

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

Examples of "tic" in Sentences

And Escher's interlocking motif tic.
Tic and semantic analysis components.
It's a tic disorder that is inherited.
Tic and semantic analysis of such names.
Definitions and classification of tic disorders.
Tic role plausibility, but argument plausibility.
Tic processing in schizophrenia. Psychophysiology,
It is a complex tic, like echolalia and coprolalia.
Mr. Carlin's most disturbing tic is a faux-intimate style.
Some people with tics may not be aware of the premonitory urge.
Prophylactic antibiotic treatments for tics and Ocd are experimental.
While habits are normal, a tic might be a symptom of a health problem.
Such a twitch is usually known as a tic (a word arising from the same root that "twitch" does, perhaps).
Calculations: Customer SLP tic$tic%originalSLPtic% tic* 16tic% = tic$tic%customerSLPtic%. ` n) tic: = Chr (96)
My personal tic is the overuse, as you mention, of adverbs and speech descriptors (ask, proposed, acknowledged – etc etc!)
Such as above, I don’t think saying you “really mean to use” a specific language tic is any more forceful than saying that you “mean to use” them.
The painful muscular spasms associated with trigeminal neuralgia are sometimes referred to as tic douloureux (tik doo-loo-ruh '; "painful twitch" French).
One of the things that I learned at Viable Paradise was that this can easily happen by accident — you associate a certain tic or action with writing, and your brain seizes on the connection.