Sekirov Dictionary

card

UK /kɑːd/US /kɑɹd/

noun33

  1. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
  2. A bank card.
  3. A greeting card.
  4. A business card.
  5. An indicator card.
  6. one of a set of small pieces of hard paper with numbers and pictures, used for games
  7. [in the plural] Any game using playing cards; a card game.
  8. Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
  9. A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
  10. A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
  11. 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.
  12. (Philippines) Ellipsis of report card.
  13. Paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than paperboard, used for postcards, playing cards, etc.; card stock.
  14. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
  15. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
  16. (old-fashioned) A printed programme.
  17. Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
  18. 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.
  19. A test card.
  20. A form signed by an employee to agree to representation by a union.
  21. In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
  22. 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.
  23. A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  24. (old-fashioned) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
  25. (old-fashioned) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
  26. (figurative, old-fashioned) An attraction or inducement.
  27. Ellipsis of compass card.
  28. Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
  29. A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.
  30. A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
  31. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
  32. (old-fashioned) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
  33. (no longer used) A map or chart.

verb8

  1. To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  2. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
  3. To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
  4. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
  5. (old-fashioned) To play cards.
  6. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
  7. (figurative, no longer used) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
  8. (no longer used) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
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carded · carding · cards

Phrases with card

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