Cause and Tick

Cause

Cause verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

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Tick and cause are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tick" instead a verb "Cause".

Nearby Words: caused, causation, causeless, causative, causal

Tick verb - Make a clicking or ticking sound.

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Cause and tick are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a verb "Tick".

Nearby Words: ticked, ticking

amount	cause amount	tick amount
damage	cause damage	tick damage

A game-tick by default should be 1/20th of a second, but lag can cause it to become longer than that.

Source: Fantastic Measurement System
Additionally, a few of the weapons added post-release cause a "bleeding" effect that lasts for eight seconds or until the player has been healed and, unusually for such a cartoony game, does cause their health meter to tick down constantly.

Source: Overdrawn at the Blood Bank
There are a couple of things that tick off the kidnapped heroine and cause her to Take a Level in Badass in P2: seeing a video of her kidnapper/stalker molesting her, and then hearing him call her the c-word.

Source: Berserk Button / Film

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