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单词 ticker
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tickern.1

Etymology: < tick v.3 + -er suffix1.
Obsolete. rare.
A cribbing horse, a crib-biter.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > wind-sucking or crib-biting > horse given to
tickerc1721
crib-biter1809
wind-sucker1825
c1721 W. Gibson True Method dieting Horses v. 84 While they do this, they give a Belch through their throat, which is that which we call Ticking. Some Horses Tick upon the Trench; and some..upon any Post or Rail they can come at..and because it is sometimes communicated by example, a Ticker ought therefore to stand by himself.
1796 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses I. iv. 218 The crib-biter, formerly called a ticker... These horses will stand biting at the rack, or manger, or even at a post, throwing themselves backward, and sucking in the air with greediness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

tickern.2

Etymology: ? < tick v.2 + -er suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈticker.
slang. ? Obsolete.
? One who obtains goods ‘on tick’ and never pays for them; a fraudulent debtor.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > debtor
debtorc1290
yielder1340
borrowerc1440
ower?c1475
debitor1483
redevable1502
creditee1541
Dr.1663
ticker1753
1753 (title) The Thief-Catcher..Containing an ample Discovery of the..Frauds now practised by Highwaymen, Tickers, Gypsies, Horse-stealers [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

tickern.3

Brit. /ˈtɪkə/, U.S. /ˈtɪkər/
Etymology: < tick v.1 + -er suffix1.
1. Something that ticks.
a. The pendulum or escapement of a clock or watch; also (slang) a watch (rarely, as in quot. 1910, a clock).
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun]
clock1559
pocket watch?1576
watch1590
munter1594
tattler1688
loge1699
yack1789
thimble1819
ticker1821
toy1826
super1857
kettle1889
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > pendulum clock > pendulum
pendule1660
pendulum1660
simple pendulum1673
bob-pendulum1685
swing1696
quicksilver pendulum1726
pendle1741
gridiron pendulum1751
mercurial pendulum1786
gridiron1793
wanrest1794
seconds pendulum1795
conical pendulum1813
ticker1821
noddy1844
1821 Sonnets for Fancy in P. Egan Boxiana III. App. 622 To nail the ticker [note watch]..or to mill the cly.
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxv. 204 The other [man] went to and fro like the ticker of a clock.
1829 W. Maginn in tr. E. F. Vidocq et al. Mem. IV. App. 261 Then his ticker I set a-going, With his onions, chain, and key.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xviii. 304 If you don't take fogles and tickers..some other cove will.
1888 H. R. Haggard Col. Quaritch xxviii I've sold all my jewels down to my ticker.
1910 Contemp. Rev. July 36 Secreting a copy of Keats behind the ticker.
b. A telegraphic recording instrument, a tape-machine; a stock-indicator.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prices of stocks and shares > recording of prices or dealings > instrument recording variations
ticker1883
stock-ticker1886
stock-indicator1891
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > recording telegraphs
telegraph register1845
Morse1867
recorder1867
nicker1871
ink-writer1876
inker1882
ticker1883
news ticker1887
tape-machine1891
synchronograph1897
tape-ticker1904
undulator1910
reperforator1913
1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius (1892) 173 A couple of wheels that unwound..long strips of white paper..covered with unintelligible signs. ‘That is the ticker’, said Barker; and he explained how every variation in the market was instantly transmitted to every place of business..in New York.
1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius (1892) 174 ‘It [the ticker] is the pulse of New York’, said Barker... ‘It tells us everything. Nobody can live here without a ticker’.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Jan. 7/2 In New York..news agency ‘tickers’, messenger calls, private as well as public telephones, burglar and fire alarms,..are to be found in all well appointed offices.
1896 Proc. N. Eng. Hist. Genealog. Soc. 158 With Edison in 1870 he [F. L. Pope] invented the one-wire printing telegraph or ‘ticker’.
1902 Munsey's Mag. 26 542/2 Stock and general news tickers..reporting bad news.
c. slang (originally U.S.). The heart; also U.S. and Australian, courage, spirit, ‘guts’. Cf. heart n. 11.
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the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > [noun]
hearteOE
spirita1382
fierceness1490
stomach?1529
spritec1540
fire1579
mettle1581
rage1590
brave-spiritednessa1617
lion-heart1667
game1747
spunk1773
pluck1785
gameness1810
ginger1836
pluckiness1846
gimp1901
ticker1930
cojones1932
the world > life > the body > vascular system > heart > [noun]
hearteOE
panter1673
throbber1828
blood pump1898
ticker1930
1930 J. Lait Big House 7 Because the heart is a ‘ticker’.
1935 D. Runyon Money from Home 87 I never see a guy with more ticker than Shamus.
1950 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 149/1 Then I leapt to my feet, and the sight that met my eyes made the old ticker miss more beats than it had done when Martin clamped his gun on the back of my neck.
1979 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 4 Nov. 54/1 The lady has ticker... She didn't opt for the soft life.
1980 J. Cartwright Horse of Darius viii. 106 Put something at the bottom about your heart. Say, ‘The ticker seems to be a little dodgy at the moment.’
2. Someone who ticks off items in a list, etc.; spec. = twitcher n. 5.
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the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > [noun] > birds > bird-watching > one who > who ticks off a list
ticker1980
1980 Guardian 25 June 12/5 ‘Twitchers’ or ‘tickers’—the serious ornithologists' somewhat disparaging term for those bird watchers whose main interest in their hobby is adding new species to their lists.
1982 Birds Spring 70/2 Bird tickers contribute little to the well being of the environment and often do little but disturb it.

Compounds

ticker tape n. the paper strip on which telegraphic messages are recorded in a tape-machine; this or similar paper material thrown from windows as a form of greeting for a celebrity; also attributive.
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society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > other tokens of
palmOE
peal1509
illumination1797
feu de joie1801
confetti1815
street decoration1846
piñata1868
Venetian mast1883
serpentin1894
ticker tape1902
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > ticker-tape
tape1884
ticker tape1902
1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders 407 For two days he clung to the ticker tape as to a life line.
1922 M. B. Houston Witch-man xiv. 194 He has all the hilarious charm of a piece of ticker tape.
1957 Listener 10 Oct. 556/1 A traditional ticker-tape reception is to be accorded.
1972 D. E. Westlake Cops & Robbers (1973) x. 135 The Wall Street ticker-tape parade is a tradition.
1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. iii. 51 On the afternoon of the second day, the ticker-tape carried a story that President Truman had said that General MacArthur, supreme commander in Korea, had the authority to use the nuclear weapon there, without reference to the President.
1980 L. St. Clair Obsessions ii. 48 Tomorrow's ticker-tape welcome to Commander Richard E. Byrd.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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