flashcard

See also: flash card

English

Alternative forms

• flash card

Etymology

From flash +‎ card.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: flăshʹkärd', IPA^(key): /ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/
• Hyphenation: flash‧card

Noun

flashcard (plural flashcards)

2. A card used to aid rote memorization. One side of the card contains data of one kind, or a question, and the other side contains the associated response which one wants to memorize. For example, one side could contain an English word, and the other side the Spanish translation.

   Synonym: flipcard

   Coordinate terms: index card, notecard (often coinstantial)

   Many people use flashcards to learn languages.

   • 2022, Patricia Taxxon (lyrics and music), “Like”, in Agnes & Hilda:

     I know I'm bad at this
     I didn't have much practice
     I had a flashcard deck but I left it in my desk last Friday

4. (electronics) A solid-state digital memory storage format, commonly found on computers, digital cameras and cellphones.

   Synonyms: memory card, memory cartridge

Translations

memorization aide

• Arabic: بِطَاقَة إِسْتَذْكَار f (biṭāqa(t) ʔistaḏkār), بِطَاقَة تَعْلِيمِيَّة f (bitāqa taʕlīmiyya)
• Bulgarian: флашка́рта f (flaškárta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抽認卡 / 抽认卡 (zh) (chōurènkǎ), 閃卡 / 闪卡 (zh) (shǎnkǎ)

• Czech: kartička (cs) f
• Dutch: steekkaart f
• Finnish: opettelukortti
• French: carte mémoire (fr) f, flashcard f
• German: Lernkarte f, (collective) Lernkartei f
• Greek: κάρτα flash f (kárta flash)
• Japanese: 教材用のカード (kyōzaiyō no kādo), フラッシュカード (furasshu kādo)
• Korean: 플래시 카드 (peullaesi kadeu)
• Macedonian: мемо́риска ка́ртичка f (memóriska kártička)
• Maltese: leħħa f
• Polish: fiszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: flash card m, flashcard m
• Russian: ка́рточка (ru) f (kártočka), обуча́ющая ка́рточка f (obučájuščaja kártočka), ка́рточка для запомина́ния f (kártočka dlja zapominánija), флэшка́рта f (flɛškárta)
• Spanish: flashcard m, tarjeta memorista f, tarjeta mnemotécnica f, tarjeta memorística f, ficha memorativa f, ficha didáctica f, ficha mnemónica f
• Swedish: skrivkort n

solid-state digital memory

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 閃存卡 / 闪存卡 (shǎncúnkǎ)

• Dutch: flitskaart f
• Finnish: muistikortti (fi)
• French: carte mémoire (fr) f
• German: Speicherkarte (de) f
• Greek: κάρτα flash f (kárta flash)
• Hungarian: tanulókártya
• Japanese: メモリーカード
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: kāri mahara
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: cartão de memória (pt)
• Russian: флэшка́рта f (flɛškárta)
• Spanish: tarjeta de memoria f
• Swedish: flashkort, minneskort (sv) n
• Thai: แฟลชการ์ด (flâet gàat)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• memory card
• memory stick

Further reading

• flashcard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Noun

flashcard m (plural flashcards)

1. Alternative spelling of flash card