Definitions and meaning of card
card
Translingual
Symbol
card
- (mathematics) cardinality
- Synonyms: #, | |
Pronunciation
- enPR: kärd
- (UK) IPA(key): /kɑːd/, [kʰɑːd]
- (US) IPA(key): /kɑɹd/, [kʰɑɹd]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /kaːd/, [kʰäːd]
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /kɐːd/, [kʰɐːd]
- Hyphenation: card
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Etymology 1
From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of chart.
Noun
card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)
- A playing card.
- (in the plural) 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.
- (obsolete) A map or chart.
- (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
- A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
- (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.
- Synonym: expansion card
- (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.
- (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.
- In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
- (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.
Hyponyms
- (playing cards): court card
- (piece of plastic): affinity card, credit card, debit card
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Descendants
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Verb
card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)
- (transitive, US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
- (dated) To play cards.
- (transitive, golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
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References
Etymology 2
From Middle English carde, Old French carde, from Old Occitan carda, deverbal from cardar, from Late Latin *carito, from Latin carō (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
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.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English carden, from Old French carder, from carde (“cotton card”); see Etymology 2 for more.
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.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 4
Noun
card (plural cards)
- Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
Etymology 5
Noun
card (plural cards)
- Obsolete form of chard.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin carduus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkart]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈkaɾt]
- Rhymes: -aɾt
- Homophone: kart
Noun
card m (plural cards)
- thistle
Derived terms
Further reading
- “card” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English card, from Middle English carde, from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Doublet of carta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkard/
- Rhymes: -ard
- Hyphenation: càrd
Noun
card f (invariable)
- card (identification, financial, SIM etc., but not playing card)
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English card. Doublet of carte, cartă, hârtie, and hartă.
Noun
card n (plural carduri)
- card (clarification of this definition is needed)
Declension
Source: wiktionary.org