Crossword clues for ticker
ticker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ticker \Tick"er\ (t[i^]k"[~e]r), n. [See Tick.]
One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.
A telegraphic receiving instrument that automatically prints off stock quotations ( stock ticker), market report, or other news on a paper ribbon or ``tape.''
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).
-
The heart. [Colloq.]
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 By 1980 such devices were largely superseded by electronic stock quotation devices.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1821, "something that ticks," agent noun from tick (v.); slang meaning "heart" first recorded 1930. Ticker tape (1891) is from ticker "telegraphic device for recording stock market quotations, etc." (1883).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur. 2 A ticker tape. 3 (context colloquial English) The heart. 4 (cx birdwatching slang English) A birdwatcher who aims to see (and tick off on a list) as many bird species as possible.
WordNet
n. 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]
a small portable timepiece [syn: watch]
character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on tickertape [syn: stock ticker]
Wikipedia
Ticker is a 2001 American action film directed by Albert Pyun, starring Tom Sizemore, Jaime Pressly, Dennis Hopper, Steven Seagal, Ice-T, Kevin Gage, and Nas.
Ticker can mean:
- Ticker tape, the paper strip output by a stock ticker machine
- Ticker symbol, codes used to uniquely identify publicly traded companies on a stock market
- News ticker, a small screen space on television news dedicated to headlines or minor pieces of news
- Ticker (2001 film), an action film directed by Albert Pyun
- Ticker (2008 film), an action/comedy film written by Stephen Langford & Shin Koyamada
- Heart, informally
- A rich media self-updating graphic added to the signature of an online chat profile that serves as a countdown to an important event
Usage examples of "ticker".
Flashing newsboards warred, streaming stock and futures tickers under cosmetic adverts and the dockside news.
On one side of the dead guy was a woman, Denise Giles, skinny as ticker tape, pretty, dark, who knows what age.
And I think we can still get Financial Newswire and WorldMarket to window your speech on the ticker feed, which would push us up over sixteen.
He looked smaller, almost doll-like, a miniature of his old self, all surplus pared away, the skin drawn back tightly over his cheekbones, his colour a peculiar off-yellow, as though he were turning into an elderly Japanese, one of those desiccated little ancients in blue suits and bowties that can sometimes be seen sitting calmly beside the tickers in downtown brokerage houses.
Plenty of them have artificial tickers, but they like to stomp around every few years and talk about how it's against the rules of God and humankind to prolong life by artificial means.
Every so often, all the headlines he'd ever composed would scroll through his consciousness one after another, like a demonic Dow Jones ticker, causing Sinclair to yodel alliteratively.
Other lights came from moving pylons, five feet tall, that shot up mini-rockets filled with flash powder and confetti and ticker tape, in addition to beams that swung back and forth like searchlights at a world premiere.
The ticker stood in one corner of the room and, in keeping with the place, it was an almost silent ticker.
Overhead, draped from one wall to the other, ran the gigantic yellow ribbon of the stock ticker, reeling off in magnified form the information that the main computer was transmitting everywhere.
Our guide droned on and on, telling us of the stock ticker and the Dow-Jones averages, deciphering the cryptic symbols that drifted dreamily by on the screen, talking of bulls and bears, of short sellers, of margin requirements, of many another strange and wonderful thing.
They had not stuffed his ears, either, and after they had carried him out of what was a private garage into a house which opened off a street that was probably residential and lined with high buildings—the traffic had been light and had boomed and echoed as it would from big structures—Monk had heard the telegraph sounders, the tickers, the telephones and the tiny whistling of radios receiving code.
In the meanwhile, Suvorov/Koniev's apartment was as closely watched as the Moscow Stock Exchange ticker.
Milo had never seen a stock ticker before, and the quotation for Egyptian cotton happened to be coming in just as he asked the headwaiter to explain it to him.
I was invited to partake of bridge, but said I had a date with Sperling to discuss photography plans for tomorrow, which was true He led me to a part of the house I hadn't seen yet, into a big high-ceilinged room with four thousand books around the walls, a stock ticker, and a desk with five phones on it among other things, gave me a fourth or fifth chance to refuse a cigar, invited me to sit, and asked what I wanted.
A stock ticker materialized at the bottom of one of the monitor screens, scrolling from right to left.