card index
noun
a file or catalog consisting of cards on which information has been entered so that desired items or data can be readily found.
card indexes
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pluralof card index.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In some ways, Spotlight is a paean to journalism’s archaic methods, as it lovingly dwells on microfiches, card indexes, picture folders and clippings files.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2016
Naomi Kuyck-Cohen, a first-year student of theatre design, has beautifully added to Ark-ive, snipping filigree herds and individual creatures from card indexes and populating a map of the British Isles with tiny scissored-out beasts.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2012
In 1950 he scraped together $25,000, sent out a crude, twelve-page catalogue of wearing apparel to 250,000 refugees picked from card indexes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lists and card indexes that are kept going in that place, and the forms that are filled in!
From Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 by Birmingham, George A.
But Una had not realized how many tools she had to know—— Desks, filing-cabinets, mimeographs, adding-machines, card indexes, desk calendars, telephone-extensions, adjustable desk-lights.
From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair
