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

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card (countable and uncountable; plural cards)

  1. A playing card.
  2. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
    He played cards with his friends.
  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. (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 [...].
  6. (informal) An amusing but slightly foolish person.
  7. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
    What’s on the card for tonight?
  8. (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.
  9. (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.
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terms derived from card (noun)
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[edit] Translations
playing card — see playing card
card game — see card game
resource or an argument, used to a achieve a purpose
flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
(informal) amusing person
list of scheduled events
(cricket) tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match
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  • Interlingua: carta
  • Portuguese: carta f. (element of a deck), placa f. (computer component)
  • Spanish: carta f., naipe m. (element of a deck), tarjeta f. (computer component, transport ticket)

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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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to check IDs

[edit] Etymology 2

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”).

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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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device to raise the nap on a fabric
hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning
machine for disentagling the fibres of wool prior to spinning

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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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use carding device
scrape or tear someone’s flesh as a form of torture

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From Latin carduus.

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card m. (plural cards)

  1. thistle

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From English.

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card m. inv.

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

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