ticker
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈtɪkə(ɹ)/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
ticker (plural tickers)
- One who makes a tick mark.
- 1992, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard):
- A teacher now is a typist, a printer, a laboratory assistant, a designer of work sheets and booklets, a form-filler, a ticker of boxes and a sender of returns to faculty heads, to head teachers, to education authorities and to the Ministers […]
- 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 ticker tape, either the traditional paper kind or a scrolling message on a screen.
- I checked the prices on the ticker one last time before placing the trade.
- To my surprise, the ticker showed that the deal had already gone through.
- (slang) A heart, especially a human one.
- My ticker gave out and I had to go to the hospital for surgery.
- (slang) A watch (timepiece).
- 2011, Maggie MacKeever, The Tyburn Waltz:
- A right nice ticker it was. Real gold.
- (birdwatching, slang) A birdwatcher who aims to see (and tick off on a list) as many bird species as possible.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a measuring or reporting device
Further reading[edit]
- “ticker”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “ticker”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “ticker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “ticker”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.