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n. A telegraphic instrument that receives news reports and prints them on paper tape.

n. Any of various devices that receive and display similar information, such as stock market quotations, electronically.

n. Slang A watch.

n. Slang The heart.

n. A measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur.

n. A stock ticker.

n. A news ticker.

n. The heart.

n. One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.

n. A telegraphic receiving instrument that automatically prints off stock quotations (stock ticker), market report, or other news on a paper ribbon or “tape.”

n. 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).

n. The heart.

n. Something which ticks, or makes a slight repeated sound.

n. A telegraphic instrument, especially a stock indicator (which see, under indicator).

n. A cribbing horse.

n. a small portable timepiece

n. a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape

n. the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body

"This ticker is the kind of forum Bill is talking about."

character printer    serial printer    character-at-a-time printer   

stock ticker   

bicker    bricker    clicker    dicker    flicker    kicker    knicker    licker    liquor    picker   

pixelated    ministership    1-hour    waterflow    troyer    switcheroo    ticker-tape    baster    evaporate    yin-yang