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Postcard vs Postmark - What's the difference?

postcard | postmark |

As nouns the difference between postcard and postmark

is that postcard is a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended to be written on and mailed without an envelope in the case of a picture postcard one side carries a picture or photograph while postmark is a marking made by a postal service on a letter, package, postcard or the like, usually indicating the place where and the date and time when the item was received or processed for the first time, and often serving to cancel a postage stamp.

As a verb postmark is

to apply a postmark on.

postcard

English

(wikipedia postcard)

Alternative forms

* post card

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended to be written on and mailed without an envelope. In the case of a picture postcard one side carries a picture or photograph.

    • See also

    * letter

    postmark

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia postmark) (en noun)
  • A marking made by a postal service on a letter, package, postcard or the like, usually indicating the place where and the date and time when the item was received or processed for the first time, and often serving to cancel a postage stamp.
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • He looked at the mauve envelope doubtfully, and examined the postmark . "Where is Pudlington, James? and one might almost ask—why is Pudlington? No town has any right to such an offensive name."

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply a postmark on.