'Ticker' definitions:
Definition of 'ticker'
From: WordNet
noun
The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly" [syn: heart, pump, ticker]
noun
A small portable timepiece [syn: watch, ticker]
noun
A character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape [syn: ticker, stock ticker]
Definition of 'Ticker'
From: GCIDE
- 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 By 1980 such devices were largely superseded by electronic stock quotation devices.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]
Synonyms of 'ticker'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abdomen,
- American Stock Exchange,
- Amex,
- anus,
- appendix,
- Big Ben,
- 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,
- TelAutography,
- telegraphics,
- telegraphy,
- telephone market,
- teleprinter,
- Teletype,
- Teletype network,
- teletypewriter,
- teletypewriting,
- Teletyping,
- telex,
- the Big Board,
- the Exchange,
- third market,
- ticker tape,
- timekeeper,
- timepiece,
- timer,
- transmitter,
- tripes,
- turnip,
- typotelegraph,
- typotelegraphy,
- vermiform appendix,
- viscera,
- vitals,
- Wall Street,
- watch,
- watchworks,
- wheat pit,
- wire service,
- works