card
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See also cârd
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /kɑːd/, [kʰɑːd], X-SAMPA: /kA:d/, [k_hA:d]
- (US) IPA: /kɑɹd/, [kʰɑɹd], X-SAMPA: /kA:r\d/, [k_hA:r\d]
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Audio (US) (file) - (Australia) IPA: /kaːd/, [kʰäːd], X-SAMPA: /ka:d/, [k_ha_":d]
- (New Zealand) IPA: /kɐːd/, [kʰɐːd], X-SAMPA: /k6:d/, [k_h6:d]
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (chartēs, “paper, papyrus”).
Noun [edit]
card (countable and uncountable; plural cards)
- A playing card.
- (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
- He played cards with his friends.
- A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
- The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
- He accused them of playing the race card.
- Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
- (obsolete) A map or chart.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- (informal) An amusing but slightly foolish person.
- 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan
- MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.
- EVE: Oh, Marek, you card.
- 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan
- A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
- What’s on the card for tonight?
- (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.
- He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.
- A greeting card.
- She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
- A business card.
- The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from card (noun)
See also [edit]
- (playing card suits) card suit/playing card suit; clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades (Category: en:Card games)
Translations [edit]
playing card — see playing card
card game — see card game
flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
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Verb [edit]
card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)
- To check IDs at a venue with a minimum age requirement.
- They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
Translations [edit]
to check IDs
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From Old French carde, from Old Provençal carda, deverbal from cardar, from Late Latin *carito, from Latin carrere (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker, *sker (“to cut”).
Noun [edit]
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.
Translations [edit]
hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning
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machine for disentagling the fibres of wool prior to spinning
Verb [edit]
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.
- to card a horse
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dyer to this entry?)
- (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
- T. Shelton
- This book [must] be carded and purged.
- T. Shelton
- (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
- Greene
- You card your beer, if your guests begin to be drunk, half small, half strong.
- Greene
Translations [edit]
to use carding device
Catalan [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈkar/
Etymology [edit]
From Latin carduus.
Noun [edit]
card m (plural cards)
Italian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
card m (invariable)
- card (identification, financial, SIM etc (but not playing card))
See also [edit]
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