(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".
Ticket
Definition:
(v.) A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
(v.) A little note or notice.
(v.) A tradesman's bill or account.
(v.) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.
(v.) A label to show the character or price of goods.
(v.) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
(v.) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.
(v. t.) To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.
(v. t.) To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.
(2) "It's a ticket that is going to win in order to bring out an agenda of transformation.
(3) So if you are, for example, going on maternity leave in 17 weeks' time you can ask the booking office for a 17-week season ticket, which will be cheaper than buying a series of monthlies and weeklies.
(4) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
(5) Manchester United Would you vote in favour of a £30 cap on away tickets?
(6) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
(7) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(8) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(9) Like Donald Trump’s campaign today, the Know Nothings (who watered down their name to the “American Party” in 1856 when Fillmore ran for president on their ticket) appealed to those who saw native-born Americans losing out to immigrants.
(10) During Nicolas Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign she was mocked for not knowing the price of an underground train ticket (she said €4 instead of €1.70).
(11) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
(12) It went ahead with the hospitality on Monday and Tuesday – using around 96 tickets – but has called off all further formal entertainment.
(13) In 2004, fewer than 100,000 tickets were sold for arena standup gigs.
(14) Buy carnet tickets Carnets were introduced by First Capital Connect to offer slightly lower fares to those who travel into London two or three times a week, but not enough to make it cost-effective to buy a season ticket.
(15) But homewares, which Street calls the store chain's "point of fame", are well down as a result of fewer people moving house and therefore not popping in to John Lewis to order big-ticket items such as carpets, curtains and furniture.
(16) Last week, it emerged that the firm was sending out tickets to members of the public that were originally intended for Games sponsors.
(17) Yet here comes Bloomberg — a former Democrat turned Republican turned independent who many thought might run for president himself on a third-party ticket — throwing his support behind Obama , citing climate as the proximate reason for his hop off the fence: Our climate is changing.
(18) And I decided that the best way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion, because I knew that was the ticket the instant that I saw a magazine cover of my idol, Reg Park.
(19) Liverpool’s Ian Ayre urges fans to ‘look at facts’ over ticket prices Read more The FSF chief executive, Kevin Miles, who has been leading its Twenty’s Plenty campaign for a £20 cap, said: “We are incredibly disappointed to learn that a proposed cap on away ticket prices was voted down by the Premier League clubs yesterday in a secret ballot.
(20) • San Francisco fans may struggle to get hold of a ticket to their game in Seattle on Sunday, after the Seahawks restricted sales to just six US states and two Canadian provinces .