What does "carded" mean?
simple past and past participle of card
Carded
adj, verb
adj, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: simple past and past participle of card
- Grammar: carded is listed as adj, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: aligned, check id, comb, combed.
- Useful contrasts: bypass verification, ignore ID, raw fiber.
- Usage evidence: Tom got carded everywhere he went.
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Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of card form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 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 Combed.
"Last year the difference in gain of the uncarded steers over the carded was comparatively large."
- 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 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 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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- 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."
- 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."
Antonyms
Example
"Tom got carded everywhere he went."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "carded"?
Common synonyms include: aligned, check id, comb, combed, processed, tease.
How do you use "carded" in a sentence?
Tom got carded everywhere he went.
Etymology
From card + -ed. Piecewise doublet of charted.