Ticker

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A telegraphic instrument that receives news reports and prints them on paper tape.
  • noun. Any of various devices that receive and display similar information, such as stock market quotations, electronically.
  • noun. A watch.
  • noun. The heart.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Something which ticks, or makes a slight repeated sound.
  • noun. A telegraphic instrument, especially a stock indicator (which see, under indicator).
  • noun. A cribbing horse.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.
  • noun. A telegraphic receiving instrument that automatically prints off stock quotations (stock ticker), market report, or other news on a paper ribbon or “tape.”
  • noun. an electronic instrument receiving information by transmision from a remote source and displaying it in readable fashion, not necessarily on paper tape (e.g. on a video display terminal or moving ribbon of electronically controlled lights).
  • noun. The heart.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur.
  • noun. A stock ticker.
  • noun. A news ticker.
  • noun. The heart.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a small portable timepiece
  • noun. a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape
  • noun. the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
  • Word Usage
    "CNN please tell that Gary Davis from Oregon that this ticker is about New York and not Obama."
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    bicker  bricker  clicker  dicker  flicker  
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