SIM card
[sim]
- Subscriber Identity/Identification Module: a removable card inside a cell phone that stores data unique to the user, as an identification number, passwords, phone numbers, and messages.
Show More
Origin of SIM card
First recorded in 1990–95
Also called SIM
sim.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for sim
Contemporary Examples
Revolutionaries need to stay connected, and they come to Balian for SIM cards and USB Internet sticks.
Balian then pages through a six-inch stack of the passport scans he takes to issue his SIM cards.
There were no SIM cards, so that they could not be triggered by a phone call.
CNN reported this morning that some demonstrators were being told to remove the SIM cards in their phones to avoid being tracked.
Historical Examples
All was as merry as a marriage bell, and might have continued so but for that puppy Sim.
A Woman TenderfootGrace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
This was afore he got married, Sim; his wife's tamed him a little.
The Depot MasterJoseph C. Lincoln
Sim Phinney grinned at Mr. Rowe, who was very much embarrassed.
The Depot MasterJoseph C. Lincoln
Sim had stooped to pick up the quarter the Prince of Wales had hove at him.
The Depot MasterJoseph C. Lincoln
"You don't look merry as a Christmas tree, Sim," he observed.
The Depot MasterJoseph C. Lincoln
sim
- a computer game which simulates an activity such as playing a sport or flying an aircraft
Show More
SIM Card
- subscriber identity module card; a small card used in a mobile phone to store data about the network, telephone number, etc
Show More
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012