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news ticker en · NOUN

Meanings

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.

Forms

Relateds

lower third · stock ticker

Synonyms

news crawl (line of text on screen)

Translations (5)

es cintillo noticioso (device, used primarily in the 20th century) · sv nyhetsticker (device, used primarily in the 20th century) · fi uutistikkeri (device, used primarily in the 20th century) · de Nachrichtenticker (device, used primarily in the 20th century) · de Nachrichtenticker (any device for displaying incoming news stories)