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English

Pronunciation

:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪkə(r)|-ɪkə(r)

Noun

ticker

A measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur.
: The ticker was showing an increased rate of flow.
A stock ticker.
: I checked the prices on the ticker one last time before placing the trade.
A news ticker.
: To my surprise, the ticker showed that the deal had already gone through.
In the Context of The heart.
: My ticker gave out and I had to go to the hospital for surgery.

Translations

Finnish: sydän, pumppu

fr:ticker fi:ticker vi:ticker

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ticker \Tick"er\ (t[i^]k"[~e]r), n. [See Tick.]
1. One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking
sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.
[1913 Webster]

2. A telegraphic receiving instrument that automatically
prints off stock quotations (stock ticker), market
report, or other news on a paper ribbon or "tape."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. 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).
[PJC]

4. The heart. [Colloq.]
[PJC]

Ticker tape Tape from or designed to be used in a stock
ticker, usu. of paper and being narrow but long.

Stock ticker, an electro-mechanical information receiving
device connected by telegraphic wire to a stock exchange,
and which prints out the latest transactions or news on
stock exchanges, commonly found in the offices of stock
brokers. By 1980 such devices were largely superseded by
electronic stock quotation devices.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

WordNet ticker
n 1: the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and
between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions pump blood
through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping
wildly" [syn: heart, pump]
2: a small portable timepiece [syn: watch]
3: character printer that automatically prints stock quotations
on tickertape [syn: stock ticker]

Moby Dictionary
American Stock Exchange , Amex , Big Ben , TelAutography , Teletype ,
Teletype network , Teletyping , Wall Street , abdomen , anus , appendix ,
blind gut , board , bourse , bowels , brain , cecum , chronometer , clock ,
clock movement , clockworks , closed-circuit telegraphy , code , colon ,
commodity exchange , corn pit , curb , curb exchange , curb market ,
duodenum , duplex telegraphy , electricity , endocardium , entrails ,
exchange , exchange floor , facsimile telegraph , foregut , giblets ,
gizzard , guts , heart , hindgut , horologe , horologium , innards ,
inner mechanism , insides , internals , interrupter , intestine ,
inwards , jejunum , key , kidney , kishkes , large intestine , liver ,
liver and lights , lung , midgut , multiplex telegraphy , news ticker ,
outside market , over-the-counter market , perineum , pit , pump ,
pylorus , quadruplex telegraphy , quotation board ,
railroad telegraphy , receiver , rectum , sender , simplex telegraphy ,
single-current telegraphy , small intestine , sounder , spleen ,
stock exchange , stock market , stock ticker , stomach ,
submarine telegraphy , telegraphics , telegraphy , telephone market ,
teleprinter , teletypewriter , teletypewriting , telex , the Big Board ,
the Exchange , third market , ticker tape , timekeeper , timepiece ,
timer , transmitter , tripes , turnip , typotelegraph , typotelegraphy ,
vermiform appendix , viscera , vitals , watch , watchworks , wheat pit ,
wire service , works