Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

news ticker

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables: news tick-er
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed out incoming news stories on paper tape.

noun

Any device for displaying incoming news stories.

noun

A line of text that moves across the lower part of a television screen or monitor, showing the latest news.

Example Sentences

"Supplementing the quotation tickers are the news tickers. These operate on the same principle as the former, but print current news having stock market value on a band of paper about six inches wide."
"My new cell phone has a news ticker feature."

Inflected Forms

news tickers (plural)

Phrases

lower third stock ticker

Frequently Paired Words

lower third stock ticker

Synonyms

news crawl

Questions

What does news ticker mean?: A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed out incoming news stories on paper tape.

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