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Meaning
Noun
●
A
playing
card.
●
Any
game
using
playing cards
; a
card
game
.
●
A
resource
or
argument
, used to
achieve
a
purpose
. (See
play
the something card.)
●
Any
flat
,
normally
rectangular
piece
of
stiff
paper
,
plastic
, etc.
●
A
map
or chart.
●
An
amusing
or
entertaining
person, often
slightly
eccentric.
●
A
list
of
scheduled
events
or of
performers
or
contestants
;
chiefly
used in
professional
wrestling.
●
In 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.
●
In Computing:
A
removable
electronic
device
that may be
inserted
into a
powered
electronic
device
to provide
additional
capability.
●
In Computing:
Any of a set of
pages
or
forms
that the
user
can
navigate
between, and
fill
with
data
, in certain
user
interfaces.
●
A
greeting
card.
●
A business card.
●
In Television:
A
title card
or
intertitle
: a
piece
of
filmed
,
printed
text
edited
into the
midst
of the
photographed
action
at various
points
,
generally
to
convey
character
dialogue
or
descriptive
narrative
material
related to the plot.
●
A test card.
●
A
published
note
,
containing
a
brief
statement
,
explanation
,
request
,
expression
of
thanks
, etc.
●
A
printed
programme.
●
An
attraction
or inducement.
●
A
paper
on which the
points
of the
compass
are
marked
; the
dial
or
face
of the mariner's
compass
.
●
In Weaving:
A
perforated
pasteboard
or
sheet-metal
plate
for
warp
threads
, making part of the Jacquard
apparatus
of a loom.
●
An
indicator
card.
●
Material with
embedded
short
wire
bristles.
●
In Textiles:
A
comb
- or brush-like
device
or
tool
to
raise
the
nap
on a fabric.
●
In 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.
●
In Textiles:
A
machine
for
disentangling
the
fibres
of
wool
prior to
spinning.
●
A
roll
or
sliver
of
fibre
(
as of
wool
)
delivered
from a
carding
machine.
●
Abbreviation of
cardinal
(“songbird”).
●
Obsolete form of chard.
Verb
●
In American English:
To
check
IDs, especially against a
minimum
age
requirement.
●
To
play
cards.
●
In Golf:
To make (a
stated
score
), as
recorded
on a
scoring
card.
●
In 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.
●
To
comb
with a
card
; to
cleanse
or
disentangle
by
card
ing.
●
To
clean
or
clear
,
as if
by using a card.
●
To
mix
or
mingle
,
as with
an
inferior
or
weaker
article.
Name
●
A
surname
originating
as an
occupation
for a
carder
of wool.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
card
English
carde
Middle English (1100-1500)
carte
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
charta
Latin
χάρτης
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
χαράσσω
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
carde
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
carda
Old Provençal (to 1500)
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