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CARD
card
(noun) one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes; “he collected cards and traded them with the other boys”
card, identity card
(noun) a card certifying the identity of the bearer; “he had to show his card to get in”
menu, bill of fare, card, carte du jour, carte
(noun) a list of dishes available at a restaurant; “the menu was in French”
card, scorecard
(noun) (golf) a record of scores (as in golf); “you have to turn in your card to get a handicap”
card
(noun) a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures); “they sent us a card from Miami”
poster, posting, placard, notice, bill, card
(noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; “a poster advertised the coming attractions”
wag, wit, card
(noun) a witty amusing person who makes jokes
card
(noun) thin cardboard, usually rectangular
card
(verb) ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor; “I was carded when I tried to buy a beer!”
tease, card
(verb) separate the fibers of; “tease wool”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Card (plural Cards)
An occupational surname for a carder of wool.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Card is the 3651st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9742 individuals. Card is most common among White (82.91%) individuals.
Anagrams
• DARC, Drac, cadr
Etymology 1
Noun
card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)
A playing card.
(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
(obsolete) A map or chart.
(informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
(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.
A greeting card.
A business card.
(television) Title card / 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.
(dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
(dated) A printed programme.
(dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
(weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
An indicator card.
Verb
card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)
(US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
(dated) To play cards.
(golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
Etymology 2
Noun
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.
A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
Verb
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.
(obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
(obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
Etymology 3
From cardinal
Noun
card (plural cards)
Abbreviation of cardinal. (songbird)
Anagrams
• DARC, Drac, cadr
Source: Wiktionary
Card, n. Etym: [F. carte, fr. L. charta paper, Gr. Chart.]
1. A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. Our first cards were to Carabas House. Thackeray.
2. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
3. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card. Shak.
4. (Weaving)
Definition: A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
5. An indicator card. See under Indicator. Business card, a card on which is printed an advertisement or business address.
– Card basket (a) A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers. (b) A basket made of cardboard.
– Card catalogue. See Catalogue.
– Card rack, a rack or frame for holding and displaying business or visiting card.
– Card table, a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one having a leaf which folds over.
– On the cards, likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme.
– Playing card, cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards.
– To have the cards in one's own hands, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking.
– To play one's cards well, to make no errors; to act shrewdly.
– To play snow one's cards, to expose one's plants to rivals or foes.
– To speak by the card, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card.
– Visiting card, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person presenting it.
Card, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Carded; p. pr. & vb. n. Carding.]
Definition: To play at cards; to game. Johnson.
Card, n. Etym: [F. carde teasel, the head of a thistle, card, from L. carduus, cardus, thistle, fr. carere to card.]
1. An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.
2. A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines.
Card, v. t.
1. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse. These card the short comb the longer flakes. Dyer.
2. To clean or clear, as if by using a card. [Obs.] This book [must] be carded and purged. T. Shelton.
3. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. [Obs.] You card your beer, if you guests being to be drunk.
– half small, half strong. Greene.
Note: In the manufacture of wool, cotton, etc., the process of carding disentangles and collects together all the fibers, of whatever length, and thus differs from combing, in which the longer fibers only are collected, while the short straple is combed away. See Combing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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