Ticker

Definition

ticker /'tÇkǝ(r)/ n ( sl ) ႏွလံုး။ His ticker's not very strong. ❏ ticker-tape n [U] ( esp US ) (က) (စက္မွ အလိုအေလ်ာက္ မရပ္မနားတစ္ဆက္တည္း ႏိွပ္ထုတ္ေပးသည့္) သတင္းအခ်က္ အလက္မ်ား ပါေသာ စကၠဴတိပ္ျပားရွည္။ read the stock market prices off the ticker-tape. (ခ) (ခ်ီးေျမႇာက္ဂုဏ္ျပဳလိုသူ ကို ႀကိဳဆိုသည့္ အေနျဖင့္ တိုက္ျမင့္ေပၚမွႀကဲခ်သည့္) ယင္းစကၠဴ တိပ္ျပား။ get a ticker-tape reception.

Examples

1. ‘The ticker works perfectly well
2. telling the time in the normal way - except that the second hand runs backwards.’
3. ‘The club's annual Christmas Fair will take place in the Castlecourt Hotel on the 2nd December and tickers will be on sale at €10.’
4. ‘He said
5. ‘I've got a dodgy ticker - or had previously’.’
6. ‘A few weeks before the vote on November 7
7. the buzz goes
8. Cheney will announce his resignation
9. ostensibly because of signs of new trouble with his ticker.’
10. ‘He lacked the political ticker to take on the unions
11. he basked in the Olympic-reflected glory without harnessing its potential long-term benefits
12. and he presided over never-ending hospital waiting lists.’
13. ‘Somebody lube up the paddles
14. my ticker needs a jolt.’
15. ‘And the heart people say aspirin is awfully good for the old ticker.’
16. ‘The build up of waste in his body would have caused heart failure (given he has a dicky ticker anyway).’
17. ‘When
18. two years ago
19. Mortimer gave us Rumpole Rests His Case
20. with its last story featuring our hero being carted off horizontal with a dodgy ticker
21. there was much lamenting.’
22. ‘What's more
23. my ticker isn't pounding
24. my pins are unjellified and
25. to paraphrase a tune the 32-year-old has covered beautifully
26. he isn't giving me fever.’
27. ‘The question is
28. does he have the ticker to push for it?’
29. ‘The interesting question now is this: has Mr Howard got the ticker?’
30. ‘Yesterday was another day
31. and although the line-up has looked decidedly weak since David Bowie developed problems with his ticker
32. there was still plenty for every taste.’
33. ‘Fit or not
34. it's time to wise up and listen to your ticker.’
35. ‘News tickers have quoted IOC officials questioning whether the Salt Lake Games should go on if the host country is at war.’
36. ‘The network quickly switched to an all-service format showing phone numbers and Red Cross information over the ticker instead of prices.’
37. ‘Overall
38. flavors in dairy products continue to be a ticker worth watching as an indication of how to give consumers the flavors they desire in new and innovative products.’
39. ‘Those that utilize a full-time Internet connection
40. including a weather report and a stock ticker
41. are more interesting but still not terribly new.’
42. ‘In the upper left corner is Fox's omnipresent American flag
43. and at the bottom the news ticker
44. which further distracts from serious concentration or analysis.’
45. ‘Companies could sell subscriptions and place ads inside customized traffic information
46. weather reports
47. or sports tickers.’