ticker

1. 1.

   the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body

   “he stood still, his heart thumping wildly”

   Synonymsheartpump

   Broaderinternal organ

   Narrowerathlete's heartbiauriculate heart

   Part ofcirculatory system

   Partscoronary arterycardiac muscleheart valvevalve
2. 2.

   a small portable timepiece

   Synonymswatch

   Broadertimepiece

   Narroweranalog watchdigital watchhunterpendulum watchpocket watchstem-winderwristwatch

   Partscrystalfacemovementwatch case
3. 3.

   a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape

   Synonymsstock ticker

   Broadercharacter printer

Other forms of ticker

plural

tickers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ticker

What does ticker mean?

ticker means "the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ticker?

ticker has 2 syllables: tic-ker. The stress falls on "tic". In IPA it is /ˈtɪkɚ/.

What is another word for ticker?

Close synonyms include heart, pump, watch, stock ticker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ticker a common word?

ticker is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.