What's the difference between ticked and ticker?

Ticked


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Tick

Example Sentences:

  • (1) % hatch X 20000) of ticks from treated cattle with that of ticks from untreated cattle.
  • (2) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (3) Four of the 39 ticks in our colony were infected with a spirochete; presumably, Borrelia crocidurae.
  • (4) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
  • (5) The implications of the findings in terms of strategic tick control are discussed.
  • (6) Most of the infection was attributed to T. parva parva by application of field ticks to susceptible cattle.
  • (7) In the first trial to investigate the effect of tick control, significant improvements in liveweight gain (LWG) occurred only in periods of medium to high challenge with adult Amblyomma variegatum.
  • (8) A total of 3,532 females of various engorged weights was collected from all calves, resulting in a mean female tick yield of 1.78% based on the number of larvae used for all infestations.
  • (9) Eleven virus strains were isolated from ticks Hyalomma asiaticum asiaticum Schulce et Schlottke, 1929, and Hyalomma plumbeum plumbeum Panzer, 1796,collected in 1971-1974 in desert regions of the Uzbee S.S.R.
  • (10) But as an entertaining family experience, it ticks almost every box.
  • (11) Viruses isolated from ticks (Ixodes uriae) from a seabird colony on the Isle of May, Scotland, were shown by complement fixation tests to be related to the Uukuniemi and Kemerovo serogroups.
  • (12) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (13) The test is both highly specific and sensitive and can be applied to a wide range of studies on heartwater, including epidemiology, determination of the C. ruminantium infection rate of Amblyomma ticks and the evaluation of immunization against heartwater.
  • (14) Infected ticks were reared from larvae feeding on each of 11 rabbits taken from the same site.
  • (15) Approximately one third of all students said that ticks had a significant or very significant impact on duty performance.
  • (16) Investigations carried out in Pavlodar Province have shown that 7 species of ixodid ticks, Ixodes crenulatus, I. lividus, I. persulcatus, I. laguri laguri, Dermacentor marginatus, D. reticulatus, Haemaphysalis concinna, and one brought species, Hyalomma asiaticum, parasitize domestic animals and wild mammals.
  • (17) Ecologic studies of small mammals in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) were conducted in 1974 in order to identify the specific habitats within the Lower Montane Forest that support Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus.
  • (18) The absence of strict restrictions for the feeding on unusual species of hosts has caused the domination of polyphagy and oligophagy over monophagy among ixodid ticks.
  • (19) Adult Ambylomma variegatum ticks were collected from 184 cattle, 13 sheep and one goat in Antigua, and ground in phosphate buffered saline.
  • (20) Experiments were conducted with the tick-borne encephalitis (TE) virus; confirmation of a protective action of cellular immunity in mice was obtained.

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".