Word definition: card

Etimology


From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of chart.

noun


card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)

A playing card.

(in the plural) 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.

(obsolete) A map or chart.

(informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.

A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.

(cricket) 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.

(computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.

(computing) 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.

A business card.

(television) 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.

(dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.

(dated) A printed programme.

(dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.

A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.

(weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.

An indicator card.

Examples


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.

He played cards with his friends.

The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.

He accused them of playing the race card.

Having adopted civil union as their goal, proponents of the Civil Union Bill were sensitive to the need not to overplay the human rights card, aware that there was a significant degree of resistance in the New Zealand […]

Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all.

As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye […] .

"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.

MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.EVE: Oh, Marek, you card.

What's on the card for tonight?

Synonym: expansion card

He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.

The button will "see" the cursor through a card domain graphic; you can then change button graphics on each card.

The interaction model of WAP, originally developed for mobile phones to interact with information services in a web-like way, was based on Apple's HyperCard, and instead of pages, the user interacted with a deck of cards, which were interlinked by a scripting language.

The basic building blocks of WML applications are cards. Cards are equivalent to HTML pages. Just as Web browser can show only one page at a time , a WAP enabled device can also show only one card at a time.

She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.

The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.

You can make most theory answers without cards, but some cards do exist which specifically criticize kritiks on a theoretical basis.

to put a card in the newspapers

This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

"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

All the quarters that they know / I' the shipman's card.

Related words


hyponyms

(playing cards): court card

(piece of plastic): affinity card, credit card, debit card

verb


card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)

(transitive, US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.

(dated) To play cards.

(transitive, golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

Examples


They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.

I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.

Ted : Whoa. He didn't even card us, dude. / Bill : Yeah, we have to remember this place.

McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.

Etimology


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”).

noun


card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)

(uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.

(dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.

(textiles) 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.

(dated, textiles) 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.

Etimology


From Middle English carden, from Old French carder, from carde (“cotton card”); see Etymology 2 for more.

verb


card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)

(textiles) 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.

(transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.

(obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

(obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

Examples


"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.

to card a horse

the carded wool, he says, Is smoothly lapp'd around those cylinders

It is necessary that this book carded and purged of certain base things.

that card your beer, if you see your guests begin to be drunk, half small and half strong

noun


card (plural cards)

Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).

noun


card (plural cards)

Obsolete form of chard.

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