calling cards
Pocket-sized introductions
Calling cards are small printed cards bearing a person's name, traditionally left when visiting someone's home—a social custom now largely obsolete.
The term extends to anything that serves as a signature or identifies someone's presence: The graffiti tag was his calling card.
A criminal's calling card is a distinctive pattern left at crime scenes.
In telecommunications, a calling card is a prepaid card for making phone calls, especially from payphones or while traveling.
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
- formalityStrict observance of convention
- gentilityRefined social standing
courtesy · manners · visiting · parlor · drawing room · silver tray · butler · engraved
People you know professionally
- connectionsRelationships between things
- introductionsInitial formal presentations
- LinkedInProfessional networking platform
- professionalCredentialed in one's field
conferences · meetups · exchange · collaboration · outreach · engagement · rapport · handshake
Separation across significant space
- PIN numberAccount verification digits
- minutesSixty-second intervals
- payphonePublic coin-operated telephone
- immigrantOne who resettles abroad
remittance · telephone booth · collect call · top-up · scratch card · dial-up · area code · rates
Handwritten name for verification
- trademarkRegistered commercial identifier
- hallmarkDistinguishing characteristic or mark
- fingerprintFriction ridge impression
- distinctiveReadily identifiable, set apart
recognizable · characteristic · telltale · unmistakable · identifier · marker · sign · giveaway
Victorian
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
- formalityStrict observance of convention
gentility · courtesy · manners · visiting · parlor · drawing room · silver tray · butler · engraved · at home
contacts
People you know professionally
- connectionsRelationships between things
- introductionsInitial formal presentations
- LinkedInProfessional networking platform
professional · conferences · meetups · exchange · collaboration · outreach · engagement · rapport · handshake · referrals
long distance
Separation across significant space
- PIN numberAccount verification digits
- minutesSixty-second intervals
- payphonePublic coin-operated telephone
immigrant · remittance · telephone booth · collect call · top-up · scratch card · dial-up · area code · rates
signature
Handwritten name for verification
- trademarkRegistered commercial identifier
- hallmarkDistinguishing characteristic or mark
- fingerprintFriction ridge impression
distinctive · recognizable · characteristic · telltale · unmistakable · identifier · marker · sign · giveaway · style
- Victorian eraparlour, Victorian etiquette, etiquette, parlor games, courtship
- Victorianaseances, Dickens, spiritualism, Sherlock Holmes, phrenology
- old-fashionedantique, antiques, gramophone, phonograph, horse and buggy
- period dramaperiod costumes, costume drama, Victorian era, period piece, Edwardian era
- social etiquettemanners, etiquette, courtesy, respect, table manners
- outdated thingsflip phones, VHS tapes, fax machines, dial-up, typewriters
calling cardsbarging in
Entering without permission
gate-crashing · dropping by · cold calls · intrusions · trespassing
calling cardsanonymity
Unknown identity state
disguises · aliases · pseudonyms · facelessness · namelessness
recall, calling, called, cards, calls, caller, recalling, callers, recalls