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Ticket vs Ticker - What's the difference?

ticket | ticker |

As nouns the difference between ticket and ticker

is that ticket is a pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc while ticker is a measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur.

As a verb ticket

is to issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.

ticket

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
  • A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
  • A citation for a traffic violation.
  • A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
  • A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally Internet Service Provider related).
  • (informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
    • Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.
    Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket .
  • A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
    • That's the ticket .
    I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1884 , author=Mark Twain , title=Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , chapter=34 , url= , isbn=0-553-21079-3 , page= , passage="Here's the ticket . This hole's big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board."}}
  • (dated) A little note or notice.
  • * Fuller
    • He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.
  • (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket'' and eventually ''on tick ).
  • * J. Cotgrave
    • Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.
  • A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
  • A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.

    • Derived terms

    * automatic ticket sampling machine * golden ticket * have tickets on oneself * lottery ticket * one-way ticket * that's the ticket * ticket machine * write one's own ticket

    See also

    * (wikipedia "ticket")

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.

    • Derived terms

    * ticket off

    ticker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur.
    • The ticker was showing an increased rate of flow.
  • A ticker tape.
    • I checked the prices on the ticker one last time before placing the trade.
    To my surprise, the ticker showed that the deal had already gone through.
  • (colloquial) The heart.
    • My ticker gave out and I had to go to the hospital for surgery.
  • A birdwatcher who aims to see (and tick off on a list) as many bird species as possible.

    • Derived terms

    * news ticker, stock ticker