Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flat, usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, cardboard, or plastic, especially.
- noun One of a set or pack bearing significant numbers, symbols, or figures, used in games and in divination.
- noun A greeting card.
- noun A postcard.
- noun One bearing a person's name and other information, used for purposes of identification or classification.
- noun One bearing the image and often the statistics of a sports figure.
- noun A business card.
- noun A credit card.
- noun A magnetic card.
- noun One used for recording information in a file.
- noun A game played with cards.
- noun The playing of games with cards.
- noun A program, especially for a sports event.
- noun A menu, as in a restaurant.
- noun A wine list.
- noun A printed circuit board that plugs into a slot on a computer's motherboard or into a port on the outside of a device, and performs a particular function, such as data storage or converting and processing signals for communication with other devices.
- noun A punch card.
- noun A compass card.
- noun Informal An eccentrically amusing person.
- noun Something, such as an advantageous circumstance or tactical maneuver, that can be used to help gain an objective. Often used with play:
- noun An appeal to a specified issue or argument, usually one involving strong emotions. Often used with play:
- transitive verb To furnish with or attach to a card.
- transitive verb To list (something) on a card; catalog.
- transitive verb To check the identification of, especially in order to verify legal age.
- transitive verb Sports To warn or eject (a soccer player who has committed a flagrant foul) by showing a yellow card or a red card.
- idiom (card up (one's) sleeve) A secret resource or plan held in reserve.
- idiom (in the cards) Likely or certain to happen.
- idiom (put/lay) To make frank and clear revelation, as of one's motives or intentions.
- noun A wire-toothed brush or a machine fitted with rows of wire teeth, used to straighten and separate fibers, as of wool, prior to spinning.
- noun A device used to raise the nap on a fabric.
- transitive verb To comb out or brush with a card.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A paper; a writing; a chart; a map.
- noun A piece of thick paper or pasteboard prepared for various purposes.
- noun A piece of cardboard on which is written or printed the name, or the name, address, etc., of the person presenting it, as in making a social visit, announcing the nature and place of one's business, etc. Cards intended for the former use are called
visiting-cards . and for the latter business cards. - noun A paper on which the points of the compass are marked: used with a movable magnetic needle to form a compass. See
compass and compass-card. - noun A piece of pasteboard or heavy note-paper on which is written or printed an invitation to a public or private entertainment, especially an invitation to or announcement of a wedding.
- noun A short advertisement of one's business, or a personal statement of any kind, in a newspaper or other periodical.
- noun Anything resembling a card in shape or use: as, a card of matches; “cards of yellow gingerbread,”
- noun A frame filled with honeycomb; a sheet of honeycomb.
- noun A perforated sheet of cardboard or metal, used in a Jacquard loom as a guide for the threads in weaving a pattern.
- noun An eccentric person, or any one who has some notable peculiarity; a character.
- To comb or open, as wool, flax, hemp, etc., with a card, for the purpose of disentangling the fibers, cleansing from extraneous matter, separating the coarser parts, and making fine and soft for spinning.
- To mingle; mix; weaken or debase by mixing.
- noun An abbreviation of
cardinal .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When a lane, _i. e._, one entire ray of the star, is opened out, the place of the _inner_ card may be filled by _one card_ from the third circle.
Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games Adelaide Cadogan
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j = (int) (Math. random () * suit. length); card = card+ "of" +suit [j]; return card; my hw is due tmr so please help me.
DaniWeb IT Discussion Community blazinhieu 2010
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V. ii.114 (330,6) the card or calendar of gentry] The general preceptor of elegance; the _card_ by which a gentleman is to direct his course; the _calendar_ by which he is to choose his time, that what he does may be both excellent and seasonable.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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But unlike credit, whose Latin form was inherited from Indo-European, the word card ultimately reflects borrowing into Latin from Ancient Greek.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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But unlike credit, whose Latin form was inherited from Indo-European, the word card ultimately reflects borrowing into Latin from Ancient Greek.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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That kind of thing, a series of them, all starting with a title card that read, “Setting the Record Straight.”
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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After the title card offered the apology, we see Steven questioning an auditioner whose last name is Muck.
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The title card has barely passed and already it seems obvious that I'm watching these films in the wrong order.
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Playing the race card is code for we are losing the debate.
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That kind of thing, a series of them, all starting with a title card that read, “Setting the Record Straight.”
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
treeseed commented on the word card
as a witty amusing person who makes jokes
February 24, 2008
oroboros commented on the word card
CArD
May 10, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word card
"12. A brush with wire teeth, used in disentangling fibers of wool, flax, or cotton, and laying them parallel to one another preparatory to spinning. In hand-cards the wires are short and are passed slantingly through leather, which is then nailed upon a board. Two of these brushes are used, one in each hand, and in use are drawn past each other, the fibers being between them. In the carding-machine, which has superseded hand-carding, the cards are formed by hard-drawn wire staples, each furnishing two teeth, drawn through leather and bent at a certain angle. The material thus prepared is called card-clothing. See carding-machine."
--Century Dictionary
January 19, 2011
kubaa434 commented on the word card
Yes, its true
June 3, 2012