card.
A playing card.
Meaning & usage
A playing card.
Any game using playing cards; a card game.
He played cards with his friends.
A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
He accused them of playing the race card.
Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
A bank card.
Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
Cashier: "Cash or card? Customer: "I'm paying on my phone, so card."
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.
Do you have any card? I want to make a poster.
A map or chart.
An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
What's on the card for tonight?
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.
A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.
Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
A greeting card.
She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
A business card.
The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
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.
A test card.
In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
to put a card in the newspapers
A printed programme.
An attraction or inducement.
This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
Ellipsis of compass card.
A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.
An indicator card.
Ellipsis of report card.
Where's your card? I want to see your grades.
A form signed by an employee to agree to representation by a union.
Where this word comes from
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.
To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.
To play cards.
To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.
Where this word comes from
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.
Material with embedded short wire bristles.
A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
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.
A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
Where this word comes from
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”).
To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
to card a horse
To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English carden, from Old French carder, from carde (“cotton card”); see Etymology 2 for more.
Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
Obsolete form of chard.
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