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  1. noun A flat, usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, cardboard, or plastic, especially:
  2. noun One of a set or pack bearing significant numbers, symbols, or figures, used in games and in divination.
  3. noun A greeting card.
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  • It is likely, however, that in the near future, Ethernet cards may not have jumpers at all due to the fact that plug-and-play technology has emerged NOTE: Jumpers are small plastic sheaths that slip over pins on a computer card (this card could be an Ethernet card, a motherboard, a modem, or a hard disk drive controller). —  Maximum Security -- Ch 28 -- Spoofing Attacks
  • Membership cards for Cubs Club members will start being sent the week of March 23, so make sure and check the mail over the next 7 - 10 days as your card should be arriving soon.
  • Once you have completed the subscription process and your card has been authorised for payment, you will be given appropriate access to the Website. —  Latest stories
  • No word on any rebates or anything to match the Radeon 4890 rebated price yet though and the card will be available globally on or before April 14th. —  Gaming Nexus
  • On the tail end of the card are the two six-pin power connectors and the S / PDIF audio connector. —  [H]ardOCP [H] Enthusiast Article Feed
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English carde, from Old French carte, from Latin charta, paper made from papyrus, from Greek khartēs.
  2. Middle English carde, from Medieval Latin cardus, from Latin carduus, thistle.

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  1. from Middle English card = Dutch kaart = German karte = Danish kort, a card, a map, = Swedish kort, a card, karta, a chart, from French carte, a card, ticket, bill, map, chart, = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian carta, from Middle Latin carta, also charta, a card, paper, a writing, chart, charter, from Latin charta, a leaf of paper, paper, a writing, a tablet, from Greek χάρτη, also χάρτης, a leaf of paper, a separated layer of the papyrus-bark, any thin leaf or sheet, as of lead. See chart, a doublet of card, and cartel, charter, etc.
  2. from Middle English *carden (in verbal noun cardying, cardinge, cardyng); from the noun.
  3. from Middle English carde = Dutch kaarde = Middle Low German karde = Old High German kartā, chartā, Middle High German karte, German karde, dial. kardel, kartel = Danish karte, karde = Swedish karda (cf. Icelandic karri) = French carde = Spanish Portuguese carda = Italian cardo, a card (cf. Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian cardo, a thistle; cf. French chardon, a plant the head of which is used as a flax-comb, German kardendistel (also kardetschdistel), the thistle which is used as a flax-comb: see cardoon), from Middle Latin cardus, a thistle, a card, for L. carduus, a thistle (used for carding), from carĕre, card; cf. Greek κείρειν, shear, = English shear.
  4. from Middle English carden (= Dutch kaarden = Low German kaarten = German karden = Danish karte, karde = Swedish karda (cf. Icelandic karra) = French carder = Provencal Spanish Portuguese cardar = Italian cardare); from card, n.
 

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