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- 1 A surname originating as an occupation for a carder of wool.
- 1 A playing card. countable, uncountable
"As each card is played in blackjack, it changes the possibilities for both player and dealer by diminishing the number and the variety of cards that may be dealt."
- 2 Material with embedded short wire bristles. dated, uncountable
- 3 Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”). abbreviation, alt-of
- 4 Obsolete form of chard. alt-of, obsolete
- 5 one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes wordnet
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- 6 Any game using playing cards; a card game. countable, in-plural, uncountable
"He played cards with his friends."
- 7 A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric. countable, dated, uncountable
- 8 a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities wordnet
- 9 A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.) countable, uncountable
"The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy."
- 10 A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight. countable, uncountable
- 11 a card certifying the identity of the bearer wordnet
- 12 Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc. countable, uncountable
- 13 A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning. countable, dated, uncountable
- 14 (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat wordnet
- 15 A bank card. countable, uncountable
- 16 A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. countable, uncountable
- 17 a list of dishes available at a restaurant wordnet
- 18 Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins). countable, uncountable
"Cashier: "Cash or card? Customer: "I'm paying on my phone, so card.""
- 19 (golf) a record of scores (as in golf) wordnet
- 20 Paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than paperboard, used for postcards, playing cards, etc.; card stock. uncountable
"Do you have any card? I want to make a poster."
- 21 a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures) wordnet
- 22 A map or chart. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye […]."
- 23 a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited wordnet
- 24 An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric. countable, informal, uncountable
""He's a cheery old card," muttered Harry to Jack / As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. / . . . / But he did for them both by his plan of attack."
- 25 a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement wordnet
- 26 A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling. countable, uncountable
"What's on the card for tonight?"
- 27 a witty amusing person who makes jokes wordnet
- 28 A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures. countable, uncountable
- 29 thin cardboard, usually rectangular wordnet
- 30 A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability. countable, uncountable
"He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet."
- 31 Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces. countable, uncountable
"The button will "see" the cursor through a card domain graphic; you can then change button graphics on each card."
- 32 A greeting card. countable, uncountable
"She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby."
- 33 A business card. countable, uncountable
"The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house."
- 34 A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot. countable, uncountable
- 35 A test card. countable, uncountable
- 36 In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point. countable, uncountable
"You can make most theory answers without cards, but some cards do exist which specifically criticize kritiks on a theoretical basis."
- 37 A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc. countable, dated, uncountable
"to put a card in the newspapers"
- 38 A printed programme. countable, dated, uncountable
- 39 An attraction or inducement. broadly, countable, dated, figuratively, uncountable
"This will be a good card for the last day of the fair."
- 40 Ellipsis of compass card. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
""The Lord possessed me [= Wisdom] in the beginning of his way, even before his works of old was I set up;" that law, which hath been the pattern to make, and is the card to guide the world by"
- 41 A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. countable, uncountable
- 42 A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex. countable, uncountable
- 43 An indicator card. countable, uncountable
- 44 Ellipsis of report card. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
"Where's your card? I want to see your grades."
- 1 To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement. US, transitive
"They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger."
- 2 To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
""Isn't that true, Bertha? " asked the smith. "Yes, every word of it, my lad," said Mother Bertha, who was sitting near the hearth carding."
- 3 ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor wordnet
- 4 To play cards. dated
"For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund."
- 5 To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
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- 6 separate the fibers of wordnet
- 7 To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card. transitive
"McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round."
- 8 To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding. transitive
"to card a horse"
- 9 To clean or clear, as if by using a card. figuratively, obsolete, transitive
"It is necessary that this book carded and purged of certain base things."
- 10 To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. obsolete, transitive
"that card your beer, if you see your guests begin to be drunk, half small and half strong"
Etymology
From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of carte and chart.
From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of carte and chart.
From Middle English carde, Old French carde, from Old Occitan carda, deverbal from cardar, from Late Latin *carito, from Latin carō (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
From Middle English carden, from Old French carder, from carde (“cotton card”); see Etymology 2 for more.
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