Carded

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Involving the disentangling of fibers with a carding device.

    "Mr. Whitman holds up the National Association of Wool Manufacturers as the representative of the carded woolen manu- facturers of the United States."

  2. 2
    Combed.

    "Last year the difference in gain of the uncarded steers over the carded was comparatively large."

  3. 3
    Straightly aligned, as if combed.

    "There they stretched in a carded drift of fierce white fire, smouldering in the resplendent blue, and consumed by its own intensity."

  4. 4
    Listed officially on an information card.

    "If it accepts a car as safe and subsequently a wreck occurs, while it cannot evade its responsibility for the wreck by attributing the failure to a carded defect ; if in place of settling for the car it elects to make the repairs , be they light or heavy , it clearly has the right to collect from the owner of the car on so unquestioned a defect as a broken side sill , which is carded for by the owner of the car."

  5. 5
    Possessing an official membership card;card-carrying.

    "Tow MH had an operator nicknamed "The man who wasn't carded." He was a fair operator, a good railroad man, good hearted, always wore a smile, worked when others didn't and was always on the job. Be he did not have a card. "Did you ever think this matter over carefully?" asked a carded man."

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  1. 6
    Signed onto a current season players card.

    "A carded player could not go down and play for the Atom "B" team unless he is first released from the Atom “A” team."

  2. 7
    Having a chipboard or cardboard backing and encased within a shaped plastic bubble.

    "A carded Cheron that is mint in the carded package will keep its value of $200, but if in this example the card and blister are not mint, with, say, the bubble having a crack and the card with some damage, that figure would be valued based on the two-tier pricing at or around $150."

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of card form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From card + -ed. Piecewise doublet of charted.

Etymology 2

From card + -ed. Piecewise doublet of charted.

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