card

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A playing card.

   • 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.
2. 2

   Any game using playing cards

   Any game using playing cards; a card game.

   • He played cards with his friends.
3. 3

   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.
   • 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 […]
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   1. 4

      Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.

   2. 5

      A bank card.

   3. 6

      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."
   4. 7

      Paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner…

      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.
   5. 8

      A map or chart.

      • As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye […].
   6. 9

      An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.

      • "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 a card!' Doreen said. 'Isn't he a card?'
   7. 10

      A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants

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

      • What's on the card for tonight?
   8. 11

      A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match

      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.

   9. 12

      A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to…

      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.
   10. 13

       Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in…

       Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.

       • The button will "see" the cursor through a card domain graphic; you can then change button graphics on each card.
       • 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 (except when using frames), a WAP enabled device can also show only one card at a time.
   11. 14

       A greeting card.

       • She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
   12. 15

       A business card.

       • The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
   13. 16

       A title card or intertitle

       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.

   14. 17

       A test card.

   15. 18

       In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.

       • You can make most theory answers without cards, but some cards do exist which specifically criticize kritiks on a theoretical basis.
   16. 19

       A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of…

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

       • to put a card in the newspapers
   17. 20

       A printed programme.

   18. 21

       An attraction or inducement.

       • This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
   19. 22

       Ellipsis of compass card.

       • "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.
   20. 23

       A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the…

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

   21. 24

       A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.

   22. 25

       An indicator card.

   23. 26

       Ellipsis of report card.

       • Where's your card? I want to see your grades.
   24. 27

       A form signed by an employee to agree to representation by a union.

   25. 28

       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.
       • Ted (Keanu Reeves): Whoa. He didn't even card us, dude. / Bill (Alex Winter): Yeah, we have to remember this place.
   26. 29

       To play cards.

       • For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.
   27. 30

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

       • McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.
   28. 31

       Material with embedded short wire bristles.

   29. 32

       A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.

   30. 33

       A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid…

       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.

   31. 34

       A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

   32. 35

       A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

   33. 36

       To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

       • "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.
   34. 37

       To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.

   35. 38

       To comb with a card

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

       • to card a horse
       • the carded wool, he says, Is smoothly lapp'd around those cylinders
   36. 39

       To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

       • It is necessary that this book carded and purged of certain base things.
   37. 40

       To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

       • that card your beer, if you see your guests begin to be drunk, half small and half strong
   38. 41

       Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).

   39. 42

       Obsolete form of chard.

   40. 43

       A surname originating as an occupation for a carder of wool.

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