What is a ticket? When this word is pronounced, we immediately recall the ticket that you need to buy in order to travel by bus, by train or by plane. But it turns out that tickets are different and are used not only in transport, but also in other areas. Let's consider in more detail that this is a ticket.
Dictionary Interpretation
What does a ticket mean? The definition of this word in the dictionary is as follows:
- One of the types of documents confirming a person’s right to receive some service, to use something. It can be a ticket for a trip in a trolley bus or to watch a performance.
- The sheet or card on which the text is located for one purpose or another. An example is an exam ticket.
- A document that is evidence of membership in an organization. For example, a trade union or library ticket.
Deprecated Values
There are also obsolete meanings of the word “ticket”. Among them are such as:
- A receipt used to confirm that the service is provided. Before the October Revolution in Russia, such a ticket was issued as a certificate of services provided, for example, by a doctor, teacher. As well as evidence of payment for such services.
- Paper-based currency. Example - Tickets of the Bank of the Russian Empire.
- The document, which until 1917 in the Russian Empire was used instead of a passport.
The word "ticket" came to the Russian language from French in the middle of the XV century. There it was formed from the old French billetus, meaning such concepts as:
- letter;
- note;
- certificate;
- certificate.
Some ticket details
The ticket is a document confirming the possession of a certain right by the person who presents it. The validity of this document may be limited in time, or may not have them.
For example, tickets are needed in order to travel by public transport (one or more times). And they are also required when attending various events. In the second case, they can be provided free of charge - these are invitation cards.
Existing rules assume that tickets are not equated with money and do not have free circulation. They are not regarded as the universal equivalent of the value of other goods or services. It is not legal to exchange them for money or goods in unlimited quantities.
However, in limited quantities with tickets, you can perform operations such as selling, buying, exchanging, donating. And also they act as a collectible.
For transport
A transport ticket is a document that confirms a person’s right to use one of the types of vehicles. There are tickets that allow you to make a single trip, and there are those that make it possible to travel repeatedly or during the specified period. The latter include subscription tickets, commonly referred to as travel tickets.
When a ticket is used once, it is either marked in some way, or it is seized, thereby eliminating the possibility of reuse. In Soviet times, these tickets had numbers consisting of six digits.
Then there was a kind of game, according to the rules of which, by performing a series of arithmetic operations with the indicated numbers, it was possible to determine a “happy ticket”. It even occurred to some people to eat it.
In gambling
In continuation of the consideration of the fact that this is a ticket, it should be noted that it is also used for lotteries. These are organized gambling, where the gain or loss is made dependent on which number will be randomly selected.
Usually it is registered in the lottery ticket itself. The funds received from the sale of tickets are distributed between the players and the organizers, and some of them are withdrawn by the state in the form of taxes.
For party members
In the party ranks, a ticket is a document necessary to confirm that its holder is a member of a particular party. He has such a short name as "party card." Possession of such paper makes it possible to vote at meetings.
Another ticket is needed in order to be able to keep party records. Currently, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has not established any regulations that put forward uniform requirements for such documents. They can be published both on paper and in the form of plastic cards.
In the Soviet Union, where there was only one party - the Communist Party - the party card was of great importance, similar to what was attached to the passport.
And also this document had a symbolic meaning. So, for soldiers who during the Great Patriotic War left the encirclement or retreated as part of separate groups, their preservation could become a decisive factor in their future fate. Representatives of the NKVD bodies who subjected them to verification paid special attention to this. Party cards for those who died returned to the party organization, in which their former owners were.