(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".
Wicker
Definition:
(n.) A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe.
(n.) Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket.
(n.) Same as 1st Wike.
(a.) Made of, or covered with, twigs or osiers, or wickerwork.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wicker's (this issue) article on substantive theorizing outlines an approach to theory and research that helps communicate the structure and process of doing research on a complex area.
(2) Wicker, who chairs the NRSC, the organization tasked with keeping the Senate in Republicans’ control, has already committed to backing Trump.
(3) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
(4) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
(5) Canvasses from the UNHCR and Unicef, the children's agency, are piled haphazardly on to structures made out of wood with wicker roofs, sacking and animal skin.
(6) Man can’t change climate.” The quick thinking from Inhofe now leaves Wicker, the new chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, as the only Republican to still embrace the entire idea of climate change as a hoax.
(7) 32 Rose Street, +27 21 422 5883, larosecapetown.com The Blue House Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rooms in The Blue House look like they could be straight from the film set of Out Of Africa , with huge leather sofas, wicker armchairs and wooden tea chests.
(8) The NSA also intercepted the foreign communications of prominent journalists such as Tom Wicker of the New York Times and the popular satirical writer for the Washington Post, Art Buchwald.
(9) Wicker said they wanted to be a model for neighborhood kids, “who did not have the opportunity to see husband and wife and children, and people waking up every morning and going to work”.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tara Wicker stands in front of the home she grew up in and still lives in today.
(11) The wicker coffin, draped in the flags of Great Britain and Brazil and an Arsenal scarf, and accompanied by an escort of Hell's Angels and the London Dixieland jazz band playing Just a Closer Walk with Thee, arrived at Golders Green crematorium in the midst of rain and storm.
(12) 6.20pm BST Beyond the belly Lots of food tips coming in - for deep-dish pizza at Gino's Eas t, tacos on the patio at Big Star in Wicker Park, for Franks N Dawgs in Lincoln Park (shark bacon, eggs, and scallop sausages) and Devil Dawgs .
(13) A handful of Republican senators joined Trump’s meeting with the leadership: Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Orrin Hatch of Utah, Deb Fischer of Nebraska, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Rob Portman of Ohio and Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
(14) From there we'll aim for Wicker Park , Chicago's hippest hood.
(15) In this rejoinder, I: (1) underscore the thrust of the choices Wicker has clarified and the p references he has recommended; (2) suggest an alternative route for the ecologically-oriented research process, one in which the conceptual and substantive "paths" have coequal and interdependent importance in determining the nature and direction of the research process; and (3) discuss in greater depth the search for universal laws.
(16) "Suspicious" Mail • Intercepted letters to Mississippi senator Roger Wicker and President Obama both initially tested positive for ricin and have been taken to the Fort Detrick lab for further testing.
(17) "The issue with The Wicker Man is there's a need by some folks in the media to think that we're not in on the joke.
(18) The English "folk horror" of the 70s is everywhere at the moment, with another cut of The Wicker Man recently released and Ben Wheatley's A Field in England a direct homage to the unhinged films that era.
(19) There's also a Wicker Man -style subplot where she gets her promiscuous comeuppance.
(20) Wicker (1989) urges the ecologyically-oriented psychologist to be more cognizant of the decision points implicit in the scientific enterprise.