| card | |
| 1. n. A playing card. | |
| 2. n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game. | |
| He played cards with his friends. | |
| 3. n. 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. | |
| 4. n. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) A map or chart. | |
| 6. n. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so. | |
| 7. n. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants. | |
| What’s on the card for tonight? | |
| 8. n. (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. n. (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. | |
| 10. n. A greeting card. | |
| She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby. | |
| 11. n. A business card. | |
| The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house. | |
| 12. n. (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 narrativ | |
| 13. n. A test card. | |
| 14. n. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc. | |
| to put a card in the newspapers | |
| 15. n. (dated) A printed programme. | |
| 16. n. (dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement. | |
| This will be a good card for the last day of the fair. | |
| 17. n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. | |
| 18. n. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. | |
| 19. n. An indicator card. | |
| 20. v. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement. | |
| They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger. | |
| I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store. | |
| 21. v. (dated) To play cards. | |
| 22. n. (dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles. | |
| 23. n. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric. | |
| 24. n. (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 th | |
| 25. n. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning. | |
| 26. n. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. | |
| 27. v. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning. | |
| 28. v. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture. | |
| 29. v. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding. | |
| to card a horse | |
| 30. v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card. | |
| 31. v. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. | |
| 32. n. (abbreviation of cardinal) (songbird) | |
