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newsticker

newsticker is the alternative form of news ticker.

Meaning of news ticker

Noun

news ticker (plural news tickers)

  1. A device, used primarily in the 20th century, which printed out incoming news stories on paper tape.
    • 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.1929, Alliston Cragg, Understanding the stock market: a handbook for the investor
  2. Any device for displaying incoming news stories.
    • My new cell phone has a news ticker feature.
  3. A line of text that moves across the lower part of a television screen or monitor, showing the latest news.
    Synonyms:
    news crawl

Forms of newsticker

pluralnewstickers

Origin of newsticker

From news + ticker.

Questions about newsticker

What is newsticker the alternative form of?
Newsticker is the alternative form of news ticker.

Words near newsticker in the dictionary

  1. newstalk
  2. newstalks
  3. Newstead
  4. newsteller
  5. newstellers
  6. newsticker
  7. newstickers
  8. newstrade
  9. newsvan
  10. newsvans
  11. newsvender

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Adapted from Wiktionary: newsticker (page history and authors); news ticker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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