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flash card

flash card

9 1.7
A small paper card with words or pictures shown quickly to help you learn
  • noun
  • /flæʃ kɑrd/
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  • She used flash cards with pictures of animals to help her son improve his language skills.
  • use flash cards
  • vocabulary flash cards
  • create flash cards

But sometimes I don't like using flash card apps like Anki.

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Examples

  • Starting with Lesson 14, subtraction flash cards were mixed in with the addition cards.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Simply creating these flash cards would not have been enough to perform well on the posttest.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Are you gonna use flash cards this time?

  • Let me check my flash card.

  • I'm going to do some flash cards with Jackson and see how many he knows.

  • We're halfway through the new batch of flash cards.

  • Simple flash cards or arrangements of objects can provide equivalent challenges for younger students.

    Academic text (2015)
  • "When they see a flash card of a symbol, they know it means 'up-bow.'

    Academic text (2013)
  • For the final two days of new flash cards, pairs were allotted a total of 10 minutes for study.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Some commercially available rhythm-reading materials and flash cards include this helpful teaching aid.

    Academic text (2015)

Synonyms

card
vsflash card
1.0

A small rectangular piece of plastic or cardboard for showing identity and for paying

is used specifically as a quick teaching aid for memorization
flashcard
vsflash card
5 1.8

A small card with a word or picture used to help you remember

is the teaching aid shown quickly to assist learning
notecard
vsflash card
1 3.0

A small card for writing short notes or reminders

is meant to be shown briefly for learning or memorization

How Detailed

textbook
215 1.4
cheat sheet
8 3.4
flash card
9 1.7
notecard
1 3.0

Surface Forms

flash card singular
flash cards plural
flash-cards plural
flash-card singular

Morphology

flash + card

The noun is directly compositional: 'flash' (to show briefly/quickly) + 'card' (a small rectangular piece of paper) yields a card that is shown quickly as a learning aid, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the meaning. This is a common, cross-linguistic compounding pattern in educational contexts and follows standard English noun-noun composition, making it readily comprehensible.

Etymology

The noun flash card comes from the idea of a quick flash of a small card showing a word or picture to students. That sudden, short show helps people 'memorize' things, so a flash card means a small card used for quick learning.