What's the difference between sticker and ticker?

Sticker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.
  • (n.) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
  • (n.) In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
  • (n.) Same as Paster, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sticker worn on the shirt an attendee at a New York City landmarks commission meeting.
  • (2) But all that has changed since I discovered the sheer joy of hunting down items with “reduced” stickers at my local Waitrose.
  • (3) A silent protester cries while wearing a sticker over her mouth signifying the loss in wages from the right-to-work law in Lansing, Michigan, on 12 December 2012.
  • (4) Following that, they were given a sticker and told that a bigger selection was on its way.
  • (5) Here, you pass cars with large stickers pronouncing “Real Men Shoot Wolves” to show support for six local poachers who were imprisoned for illegal hunting last year .
  • (6) Their antennae, which purported to detect explosives, and in other cases narcotics, were not connected to anything, they had no power source and one of the devices was simply the golf ball finder with a different sticker on it.
  • (7) Various methods of capturing charges for supplies stocked on nursing units have been devised, such as stickers and charge slips attached to the items.
  • (8) Today, under ice and snow and behind the crowds of shoppers and tourists, little evidence remains of the terror – though on a metal railing on the pavement outside the Forum, a sticker shows a yellow and blue ribbon – the colors of the marathon finish line – and the post-attack slogan “ Boston Strong ”.
  • (9) Living well with dementia means more than signs and stickers and a memory clinic,” Ward says.
  • (10) Numerous educational materials were developed including training manuals, counseling booklets, tippee cups, posters, and bumper stickers.
  • (11) This study assessed the effects of dashboard stickers and signature sheets on safety belt use among occupants of state-owned vehicles in three Florida agencies.
  • (12) The album comes with a starter pack of 31 stickers, but I usually top it up straight away with an extra five or six packs to stop it looking too empty.
  • (13) Stickers and posters then began to appear around the New York suburb of Astoria before the organisation opened a branch there.
  • (14) They have decorated a box with stickers of sunflowers and, as part of Islam’s therapy, they are placing their mother’s possessions in it.
  • (15) In the meantime other icons of the Confederacy – flags, monuments, markers, license plates and bumper stickers on automobiles – are increasingly drawing petitions around the country.
  • (16) Others break up bits of old computers and DVD players for recycling, fitting together U-bends, applying stickers on radiator caps, and building bird tables, bug hotels and hedgehog boxes for sale.
  • (17) That campaign started spontaneously when five Surbiton secretaries volunteered to work an extra half an hour each day without pay in order to boost productivity, and urged the rest of the country to follow their initiative, prompting "I'm backing Britain" stickers and badges across the country in a post World Cup wave of patriotism.
  • (18) BITS AND BOBS A Colombian teacher has been accused of pilfering stickers from pupils to complete his own Panini World Cup album.
  • (19) Open 10am-11pm, but closed for refurbishment until July 2012 Purikura no Mecca Photograph: Alamy Having first appeared in the mid-1990s, sticker photo machines, aka purikura or "print club", are now a cultural mainstay – whether on a date or with friends, Japanese teens have become obsessed with posing for snaps in these increasingly ubiquitous booths.
  • (20) Someone has already put a sticker on the road sign at the entrance of the village celebrating it as Mladic's last home before he was found.

Ticker


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The hawkish rhetoric by Iranians feeds the rhetoric of hawkish Republicans , and the front page of Kayhan” – a conservative Iranian paper – “reads like the ticker on Fox News,” he added.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Guardian journalists explain the ‘keep it in the ground’ theory Fossil fuel ticker
  • (3) That includes working to maximise home-grown energy sources rather than relying on imports from volatile markets like Russia and the Middle East, which is why the government continues to work hard to support the future of the North Sea industry.” Fossil fuel ticker
  • (4) An earlier version referred to a scrolling ticker on Qatari state television’s nightly newscast.
  • (5) The BBC ticker says Damian Green will be immigration minister, the position he shadowed, and ConservativeHome reports that Greg Clark will be responsible for decentralisation within the Department of Communities and Local Government.
  • (6) Not that it particularly mattered by the end as the victorious players took turns to give one another the bumps and ticker-tape filled the air.
  • (7) The trading room tickers and the panicked trilby-topped brokers commemorated in our wallchart today prefigured four years of ubiquitous hardship, enforced idleness and mass displacement.
  • (8) If they’d stopped to think about it, to try and process how their dreams had just been smashed because they couldn’t hold on for 4.7 seconds, how they had just become the hard-luck losers in surely the greatest climax in National Championship history, perhaps they would have been so physically and emotionally drained by the cruelty of their loss it would have been a struggle to make it off the court, and they’d have had to wait there under the glare of the lights as the thumping music played and the stage was set and the trophy was presented as the ticker-tape fell from this domed stadium’s dark sky.
  • (9) It was answered moments after the ticker-tape fell from the roof and the gleaming trophy was raised aloft, when Leonard’s name was announced and the crowd had yet another reason to go wild.
  • (10) Every pub draws the audience it deserves, and Bar Fringe's crowd is an unlikely mix of hairy bikers, bohemian folk, gnarled beer-tickers and brainy students, who leave mystifying, maths-related graffiti in the toilets.
  • (11) Fossil fuel ticker Shell’s carbon dioxide emissions have risen in 2014 and are set to increase further as it expands the business through a planned £47bn takeover of rival BG .
  • (12) Fossil fuel ticker Garanti Bankası Türkiye’deki yeni kömür santrallerine en büyük fon sağlayan kurum.
  • (13) The sale of shares in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, which will be listed under the ticker BABA, follows a two-week global roadshow which has resulted in frenzied interest from investors eager to buy into the rapid growth of China's internet sector.
  • (14) Unsubstantiated rumours spread by the breaking news tickers of major news outlets may also have encouraged more rioting, the panel said.
  • (15) The film – a slightly filthy high school comedy influenced by The Scarlet Letter – didn't get a huge release in the UK but was a sleeper hit in the US (taking $58m from an $8m budget), and produced a ticker-tape of good notices for Stone.
  • (16) Last year's was an all-white number with ticker tape and bubbly, which made it look as if they were trapped in a 2013 version of The Crystal Maze, but this year their yuletide snap went further and almost broke the internet.
  • (17) Manage a retreat from the carbon frontiers, especially the Arctic [and] press the accelerator on carbon capture and storage.” Fossil fuel ticker
  • (18) The future runs through her brain like ticker tape.
  • (19) When I go to a match, the whole structure shakes underfoot as trumpets blare and thousands of fans jump and dance in a shower of ticker tape.
  • (20) As demonstrators marched past the headquarters of News Corp, the Fox News ticker read: "May Day, May Day, May Day, police set to deal with Occupy crowd that vows to shut down the city", and "NYPD and big corporations braced for trouble".