card
Meanings
noun
- A playing card.
- Any game using playing cards; a card game.
- A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
verb
- To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
- To play cards.
- To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
noun
- 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.
verb
- 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 clean or clear, as if by using a card.
- To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
noun
- Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
noun
- Obsolete form of chard.
name
- A surname originating as an occupation for a carder of wool.
Pronunciation
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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.
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