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index card

noun

  1. a card, often relatively small, as 3 × 5 inches (7.6 × 12.7 centimeters), used in noting or recording information and usually filed in an index.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of index card1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

The tutors paste an image of a word on one side of an index card and spell out the word on the other side.

He argues that personal finance is so simple all you need to know can fit on an index card.

It’s kind of a nonromantic speed date, the only prop a stack of index cards arranged between you.

Westgate said she used to keep index cards on hand with possible ideas but has since started keeping notes on her phone.

In his shirt pocket, there were index cards, where he habitually took notes on issues needing attention, ranging from a leaky pipe somewhere in a building to parents who needed to be called with news about their son — good or bad.

Back then, they would write down examples of a word on an index card and mail it to the editors.

When the numerical index is adopted, an alphabetical index card with cross-references, including the docket index, is used.

See—adjustable to hold with perfect ease an envelope, an index card, or a strip of paper no wider than a postage stamp.

This is an index card, and is placed in the front of the file.

A follow-up of the claims is provided by a plain index card on which is written the name of the debtor and number of the claim.

An index card is then filled in with the name of the subject and the number of the folder, and filed alphabetically.

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