Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
SIM card [sim] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- 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.
Origin of SIM card First recorded in 1990–95 Also called SIM sim.
Examples from the Web for sim Contemporary Examples of sim
Revolutionaries need to stay connected, and they come to Balian for SIM cards and USB Internet sticks.
Hostility to Syrian Refugees Rising Along Turkey’s Border
Mike Giglio
August 30, 2012
Balian then pages through a six-inch stack of the passport scans he takes to issue his SIM cards.
Hostility to Syrian Refugees Rising Along Turkey’s Border
Mike Giglio
August 30, 2012
There were no SIM cards, so that they could not be triggered by a phone call.
Clive Irving
November 2, 2010
CNN reported this morning that some demonstrators were being told to remove the SIM cards in their phones to avoid being tracked.
Eric Pape
June 20, 2009
Historical Examples of sim
All was as merry as a marriage bell, and might have continued so but for that puppy Sim.
Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
This was afore he got married, Sim; his wife’s tamed him a little.
Joseph C. Lincoln
Sim Phinney grinned at Mr. Rowe, who was very much embarrassed.
Joseph C. Lincoln
Sim had stooped to pick up the quarter the Prince of Wales had hove at him.
Joseph C. Lincoln
“You don’t look merry as a Christmas tree, Sim,” he observed.
Joseph C. Lincoln
British Dictionary definitions for sim sim noun
- a computer game which simulates an activity such as playing a sport or flying an aircraft
SIM Card n acronym for
- subscriber identity module card; a small card used in a mobile phone to store data about the network, telephone number, etc
