The phrase "a double tick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a checkmark or indication that something has been confirmed or completed twice.
Example: "After reviewing the document, I marked it with a double tick to indicate that it was approved."
Alternatives: "two checkmarks" or "double check".
No response, no acknowledgment and - crucially- no double tick.
Yet with more effort and application, and less in the way of moral qualms and discomfort, email tracking is an insanely useful tool for the hawkish boss, or jealous boyfriend, tracking every correspondence, eagerly awaiting the double tick.
Half-ticks, ticks, double ticks, quarter-ticks, doodles in the margin to make fun of embarrassing mistakes, the rare and coveted triple tick, mocking tones of voice on the phone when the other is getting petulant about having full paragraphs, complete pages, sometimes entire chapters torn out and dumped in the bin.
The narrative arc can stretch for months like a good soap opera in some cases, from the time in early fall when students decide where to apply, through SAT's, Medical School Admissions Test, transcripts lost and found, class rank ascending and descending — to the nail-biting, double tick-tock countdowns of application deadlines and the notification period, which is in the spring.
Double ticks for the lip-licker.
(The second tick preempts other transmissions, but does not get a silent zone. ) The absolute value of this difference, in tenths of a second, is determined by the number of doubled ticks.
The sign is determined by the position: If the doubled ticks begin at second one, UT1 is ahead of UTC; if they begin at second nine, UT1 is behind UTC.
Some economists are talking about the risk of a "double dip" recession, and the political stakes for the Obama administration are rising as the midterm elections tick closer.
