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Ticker   /tˈɪkər/   Listen
Ticker

noun
1.
The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body.  Synonyms: heart, pump.
2.
A small portable timepiece.  Synonym: watch.
3.
A character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape.  Synonym: stock ticker.



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"Ticker" Quotes from Famous Books



... and her thoughts grew round it. When the ship came into port a week or two later, Mrs. Hamilton was one of the first passengers to land, and after careful enquiries and well-bestowed tips she was expeditiously conveyed by ticker-gharry[1] and sedan chair across the desert to the bungalow at Deira. She was considerably pleased on seeing that the white marble palace resolved itself into an ordinary white bungalow, but the garden, was unutterably lovely, and, as she saw in ...
— Six Women • Victoria Cross

... position of the money. "If yu wants to corral this here herd of simoleons yu has to ride a cayuse what Red bet me yu can't ride. Yu has got to grow on that there saddle and stayed growed for five whole minutes by Buck's ticker. I ain't a-goin' to tell yu he's any saw-horse, for yu'd know better, as yu reckons Red wouldn't bet on no losin' proposition if he knowed better, which same he don't. Yu straddles that four-laigged cloudburst an' yu gets these, sabe? I ain't seen th' cayuse yet that ...
— Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up - Bar-20 • Clarence Edward Mulford

... men to desperation, ruin, and drink, than all the other evils of humanity put together," said Barker. "That is the ticker." ...
— Doctor Claudius, A True Story • F. Marion Crawford

... features, only to be banished at once. He had retired within the walls of that impassive and inscrutable reserve which minor railroad officials can at will erect between themselves and the lay public. Only the broken rhythms of the telegraph ticker relieved the ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... day of rest. Every day ought to be so arranged that there would be time for rest from the labor of that day. Sunday is a good day to get business out of your mind, to forget the ledger and the docket and the ticker, to forget profits and losses, and enjoy yourself. It is a good day to go to the art museums, to look at pictures and statues and beautiful things, so that you may feel that there is something in this world besides money and mud. ...
— The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews • Robert Green Ingersoll

... neighbours, exclaiming that he had seen a most marvellous thing, for which he could conceive of no better name than CLICKMITOAD. After recovering from their surprise and terror, this 'bold peasant' and his neighbours, all armed with pokers or ether formidable weapons, crept up to the ill-starred ticker, and smashed ...
— An Apology for Atheism - Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination - by One of Its Apostles • Charles Southwell

... of the youthful, unlimited-of-allowance, more or less hard-living sons that it "spoils the best part of the week, you know, Flash, just running 'way down here," and the equally earnest and far more peevish complaints of the ticker tired, just-a-minute-to-spare fathers that it cost them about five thousand, just to take an hour to work off ...
— Once to Every Man • Larry Evans

... before the idea of more Mounted Police about until he had completed his work; and they might be summoned any time by wire from the gravel pit at Mile 135, where a ticker had just been installed for the work of filling in the trestle. Also he paused before the indignity of calling in reinforcements to defeat a lot of blundering fools and cowards. Deep within him was the conviction that nothing more was required than his own unerring rifle. Only the ...
— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan



Words linked to "Ticker" :   internal organ, character printer, circulatory system, pendulum watch, analog watch, ticker tape, viscus, watch, serial printer, arteria coronaria, wrist watch, cardiovascular system, heart valve, watch case, biauriculate heart, watch crystal, stock ticker, digital watch, horologe, cardiac muscle, timekeeper, pocket watch, cardiac valve, pump, wristwatch, tick, stem-winder, hunting watch, timepiece, crystal, movement, heart muscle, athlete's heart, coronary artery, watch glass, face, character-at-a-time printer, hunter, valve



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