card

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.2.1 Translations 2 Catalan 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 3 Italian 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun

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• IPA: /kɑːd/ (RP)
• (US) IPA: /kɑːrd/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -ɑː(r)d

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From Middle English carde (“‘playing card’”), from Old French carte < Latin charta < Ancient Greek χάρτης (chartēs), “‘paper, papyrus’”).

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card (countable and uncountable; plural cards)

1. A playing card.
2. (in plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
3. A resource or an argument, used to a achieve a purpose.

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

   He accused them of playing the race card.

4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
5. (informal) An amusing but slightly foolish person.
6. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.

   What's on the card for tonight?

7. (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.
8. (horse racing) A listing of the runners and riders, together with colours and recent form, for all the races on a particular day at a particular racecourse

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

1. To check IDs at a venue with a minimum age requirement

   They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.

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From Latin carduus (“‘thistle’”)

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card (plural cards)

1. (rare, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
2. (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.
3. (rare, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

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

1. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
2. To scrape or tear someone's flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture

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Latin carduus

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card m.

1. thistle

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English

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card m. inv.

1. card (identification, financial, SIM etc (but not playing card))