Ticker vs. Tick — What's the Difference?

A telegraphic instrument that receives news reports and prints them on paper tape.

Ticks (suborder Ixodida) are parasitic arachnids that are part of the superorder Parasitiformes. Along with mites, they constitute the subclass Acari.

Any of various devices that receive and display similar information, such as stock market quotations, electronically.

A light, sharp, clicking sound made repeatedly by a machine, such as a clock.

(Slang) A watch.

Chiefly British A moment.

(Slang) The heart.

A light mark used to check off or call attention to an item.

One who makes a tick mark.

(Informal)A unit on a scale; a degree

A measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur.

Any of various small bloodsucking arachnids of the order Ixodida that are parasitic on terrestrial vertebrates. Many species transmit diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease.

A ticker tape, either the traditional paper kind or a scrolling message on a screen.

Any of various usually wingless insects that resemble a tick, such as a sheep ked.

(slang) A heart, especially a human one.

A cloth case for a mattress or pillow.

(slang) A watch timepiece.

A light mattress without inner springs.

A birdwatcher who aims to see (and tick off on a list) as many bird species as possible.

Ticking.

One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.

Credit or an amount of credit.

A telegraphic receiving instrument that automatically prints off stock quotations (stock ticker), market report, or other news on a paper ribbon or "tape."

To emit recurring clicking sounds

An electronic instrument receiving information by transmision from a remote source and displaying it in readable fashion, not necessarily on paper tape (e.g. on a video display terminal or moving ribbon of electronically controlled lights).

To function characteristically or well

The heart.

To count or record with the sound of ticks

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

To mark or check off (a listed item) with a tick

A small portable timepiece

A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.

Character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on tickertape

A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.

(computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).

(colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.

(video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.

A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.

(birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.

(uncountable) Ticking.

A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.

Credit, trust.

A goat.

To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.

To make a tick or checkmark.

To work or operate, especially mechanically.

To strike gently; to pat.

To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).

(intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.

(transitive) To give tick; to trust.

Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.

Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals. When filled with blood they become ovate, much swollen, and usually livid red in color. Some of the species often attach themselves to the human body. The young are active and have at first but six legs.

The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.

A quick, audible beat, as of a clock.

Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check.

The whinchat; - so called from its note.

To go on trust, or credit.

To give tick; to trust.

To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.

To strike gently; to pat.

To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.

A metallic tapping sound;

Any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals

A mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.;

A light mattress

Make a clicking or ticking sound;

Make a sound like a clock or a timer;

Sew;

Put a check mark on or next to;