make tick meaning

• [American idiom]
  to cause someone or something to run or function. (Informal. Usually with what.)
  • I don't know what makes it tick.
  • What makes John tick? I just don't understand him.
  • I took apart the radio to find out what made it tick.
  

• When Zack begins flirting with her in an effort to make Tick jealous, Candace has no problem dumping her previous boyfriend for a chance with him.
• And if you're hiking, stay on the trail, tuck your pants into your socks and wear light-colored clothing to make ticks visible.
• "You're interested in making tick marks and footnotes, not in thinking outside the box . . . I got people to feel, not to think ."
• Later that night, a very full Bugs rests under one of the giant carrots he has been eating and wonders what has become of Daffy, who is revealed to be trapped inside Elmer's pocket watch, acting like the minute and hour hands, while constantly making tick tock sounds . ( " Eh . . . it's a living . ")