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They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.
Kenneth Blackwell

Meaning of "punch card" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PUNCH CARD

punch card  [pʌntʃ kɑːd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUNCH CARD

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Punch card is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PUNCH CARD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

punch card

Punched card

A punched card, punch card, IBM card, or Hollerith card is a piece of stiff paper that contained either commands for controlling automated machinery or data for data processing applications. Both commands and data were represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Now obsolete as a recording medium, punched cards were widely used throughout the 19th century for controlling textile looms and in the late 19th and early 20th century for controlling fairground organs and related instruments. Punched cards were used through most of the 20th century in what became known as the data processing industry; the use of unit record machines, organized into data processing systems, for data input, processing, and storage. Early digital computers used punched cards, often prepared using keypunch machines, as the primary medium for input of both computer programs and data. As of 2012, some voting machines still utilize punched cards to record data. Punched cards of a large dance organ...

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PUNCH CARD


card
kɑːd
discard
dɪsˈkɑːd
e-card
ˈi:kɑːd
Jacquard
ˈdʒækɑːd
MasterCard
ˈmɑːstəˌkɑːd
notecard
ˈnəʊtˌkɑːd
placard
ˈplækɑːd
postcard
ˈpəʊstˌkɑːd
red-card
ˌrɛdˈkɑːd
scarred
skɑːd
scorecard
ˈskɔːˌkɑːd
wild-card
ˈwaɪldkɑːd
yellow-card
ˌjɛləʊˈkɑːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUNCH CARD

punch
punch above one´s weight
Punch and Judy show
punch line
punch operator
punch tape
punch the bundy
punch-drunk
punch-up
punchbag
punchball
punchboard
punchbowl
punched card
punched tape
puncheon
puncher
punchier
punchiest
punchily

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUNCH CARD

birthday card
business card
Christmas card
credit card
debit card
flash card
graphics card
green card
ID card
master card
memory card
Picard
play the race card
red card
report card
smart card
store card
trading card
voter registration card
wild card
yellow card

Synonyms and antonyms of punch card in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «punch card» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PUNCH CARD

Find out the translation of punch card to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of punch card from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «punch card» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

打卡
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tarjeta perforada
570 millions of speakers

English

punch card
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पंच कार्ड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بطاقة لكمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

перфокарты
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cartão de perfurador
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাঞ্চ কার্ড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

carte perforée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kad punch
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lochkarte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

パンチカード
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

펀치 카드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kertu punch
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thẻ đục lỗ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பன்ச் கார்ட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पंच कार्ड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

delikli kart
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

punch card
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Karta stempel
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

перфокарти
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

carte de pumn
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κάρτα γροθιά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

punch kaart
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hålkort
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Klippekort
5 millions of speakers

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Kenneth Blackwell
They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUNCH CARD»

Discover the use of punch card in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to punch card and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing
Operating punch-card machinery would seem at first sight not particularly appropriate for women. Women were primarily employed in occupations considered “light,” or physically easy, work [9]. Hollerith's creations were huge, bulky machines ...
Thomas J. Misa, 2011
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The Encyclopedia of Public Choice
Statistical analyses reported in Knack and Kropf (2002b) overwhelmingly reject the conventional wisdom that minorities and the poor disproportionately reside in areas using punch card and other inferior voting equipment. They combined ...
Charles Rowley, Friedrich Schneider, 2005
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Right to Vote
Deanne Durrett. “Punch card machines belong in the Smithsonian, not in a United States voting booth.” —Congressman Bob Ney (Republican–Ohio), cosponsor of Help America Vote Act, 2002 ...
Deanne Durrett, 2009
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European Business, Dictatorship, and Political Risk, 1920-1945
The start of the large alphanumeric punch card systems in Germany can be traced through the development of the army payroll system. This was the first time that alphanumeric registers and punch cards were linked. In the summer of 1943,  ...
Christopher Kobrak, Per H. Hansen, Society for European Business History, 2004
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IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi ...
This text takes the reader through the carefully corporate collusion with the Third Reich as well as the structured deniability of oral agreements, undated letters, and the Geneva intermediaries.
Edwin Black, 2001
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Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues [4 volumes]
Punch-Card Systems In the 1960s, punch-card voting machines emerged. They were cheaper and allowed election officials to purchase more machines to accommodate larger precincts. Punchcard systems employ two types of ballots.
Michael Shally-Jensen, 2010
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LIFE
A. Punch-Card,. Dial-a-Book. Future. Where. Everyone. Is. Born. with. a. Phone. Number. Experimental picture phone at Bell Labs is size of a table radio. Camera is behind hole at left. Push-button dialing system is at right. Living room ...
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Modeling Business Processes: A Petri Net-Oriented Approach
Figure 4.8 A model in which the making of a punch card happens instantaneously. Figure 4.9 A model in which the making of a punch card does not happen instantaneously. or a condition. We illustrate with an example how this guideline can ...
Wil van der Aalst, Christian Stahl, 2011
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Electronic Elections: The Perils and Promises of Digital ...
Typically, the punch cards are taken to a central location where they are read and tabulated quickly, using large punch card readers. The second primary type of punch card voting system is commonly called Datavote, and it differs from ...
R. Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall, 2010
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Computerworld
Today, the punch card, like the vacuum tube, is fast becoming a symbol of a bygone period in computing. In what may be the tolling of the card's death knell, IBM, once one of the medium's largest producers, has announced that a lack of ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUNCH CARD»

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Pocket the punch card: Loyalty, rewards programs shift to mobile …
Think “rewards card,” and a bar-coded keytag or a dog-eared punch card emblazoned “Buy nine subs, get the 10th free,” likely comes to mind. But powered by ... «Retail Dive, Jun 15»
2
Hardware store owners sell punch cards to fund grocery store startup
NEW LONDON, Minn. – Ever since the grocery store in New London closed six years ago, community residents have been bemoaning its absence and begging ... «Prairie Business, Mar 15»
3
FiveStars Raised $26 Million to Kill Loyalty Punch Cards
On Thursday, the customer loyalty company--which sells software to replace those traditional paper punch cards--announced a $26 million Series B funding ... «Inc.com, Sep 14»
4
With a swipe of the smartphone, loyalty punch cards becoming …
The days of the “buy-10-get-one-free” loyalty punch card are as numbered as the ... that reward the customer faster and with more creativity than a punch card. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Apr 14»
5
Why Restaurant Punch Cards Don't Work
Remember the punchcard? Maybe some people still have a few of them tucked away in a forgotten jacket pocket or a dusty corner of a desk drawer—those ... «Business Insider, Nov 13»
6
Punch card to reward healthy purchases
The Central Student Government and MHealthy — a program launched by University President Mary Sue Coleman in 2005 to encourage a culture of health ... «The Michigan Daily, Sep 13»
7
Farmer's Market $10 punch card challenge offers prize incentive
A new punch card challenge can be used to track purchases of at least $10. Once a user collects 14 punches, the cards can be returned to the market manager ... «wtvr.com, May 13»
8
Google Search 'Mad Men'-Style Using Punch Cards
It features a 1960s aesthetic, complete with old-school punch cards. After users type in a search term on the virtual typewriter, they are prompted to select one of ... «Mashable, Dec 12»
9
Square Says Bye To Paper Punch Cards, Adds Digital Loyalty Card
With the new changes, merchants can add specials for customers visiting a location for the first time, as well as use new customizable punch cards. These loyalty ... «Forbes, Jun 12»
10
It's time to KO the punch card
LevelUp, Groupon, and now Square are offering small businesses the equivalent of the old punch cards to help them retain customers. These mimic the ... «VentureBeat, Jun 12»

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