Meaning of card | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Material with embedded short wire bristles.
   dated, uncountable
2. A surname originating as an occupation for a carder of wool.
3. Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
   abbreviation, alt-of
4. A playing card.
   countable, uncountable
5. A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
   countable, dated, uncountable
6. To sign in, as at a place of business, by use of a magnetic card.
7. Any game using playing cards; a card game.
   countable, in-plural, uncountable
8. 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.
   countable, uncountable
9. To sign out, as from a place of business, by use of a magnetic card.
10. A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
    countable, uncountable
11. A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
    countable, dated, uncountable
12. A secret resource or plan held in reserve: a tough negotiator who had a number of cards up his sleeve.
13. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
    countable, uncountable
14. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
    countable, uncountable
15. Likely or certain to happen: My promotion to a higher position just isn't in the cards.
16. A bank card.
    countable, uncountable
17. To make frank and clear revelation, as of one's motives or intentions.
18. Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
    countable, uncountable
19. To comb out or brush with a card.
20. 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.
    uncountable
21. Cardinal.
22. A map or chart.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
23. the game(s) played with playing-cards. He cheats at cards. kaarte на карти jogo de cartas hra v karty das Kartenspiel kortspil χαρτιά, τράπουλαcartas kaardimäng ورق بازی pelikortit cartes מִשְחָק קְלָפִים ताश के खेल karte kártya permainan kartu spil carte トランプのゲーム 카드게임 kortų lošimas kāršu spēle terup kaartenspel kortspill karty د ورق لوبی jogo de cartas cărţi (de joc) карты hra s kartami karte igra karata kortspel ไพ่ kâğıt oyunu 紙牌戲 карти تاش chơi bài 牌戏
24. An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
    countable, informal, uncountable
25. (of) a stiff kind of paper often made up of several layers. a cardboard box. karton وَرَقُ اللعِب мукава papelão der Karton pap- χαρτόνι, χαρτονένιοςcartón papp مقوایی pahvi cartonקרטון गत्ता, दफती ljepenka, karton karton(papír) kardus pappi cartone ボール紙 판지 kartonas kartons kadbod kartonpapp, kartongtektura كلك بنډ كاغذ، مقوا cartão carton картон kartón; kartónový karton karton kartong, papp กระดาษแข็ง karton, mukavva 硬紙板(的) картон گتہ các tông 卡纸板（的），硬纸板（的）
26. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
    countable, uncountable
27. A flat, usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, cardboard, or plastic, especially:a. One of a set or pack bearing significant numbers, symbols, or figures, used in games and in divination.
28. 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.
    countable, uncountable
29. A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
    countable, uncountable
30. Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
    countable, uncountable
31. A greeting card.
    countable, uncountable
32. A business card.
    countable, uncountable
33. 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.
    countable, uncountable
34. A test card.
    countable, uncountable
35. In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
    countable, uncountable
36. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
    countable, dated, uncountable
37. A printed programme.
    countable, dated, uncountable
38. An attraction or inducement.
    broadly, countable, dated, figuratively, uncountable
39. Ellipsis of compass card.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
40. A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
    countable, uncountable
41. A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.
    countable, uncountable
42. An indicator card.
    countable, uncountable
43. Ellipsis of report card.
    Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

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Examples

“As each card is played in blackjack, it changes the possibilities for both player and dealer by diminishing the number and the variety of cards that may be dealt.”

“He played cards with his friends.”

“The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.”

“He accused them of playing the race card.”

“Having adopted civil union as their goal, proponents of the Civil Union Bill were sensitive to the need not to overplay the human rights card, aware that there was a significant degree of resistance in the New Zealand […]”

“Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all.”

“Cashier: "Cash or card? Customer: "I'm paying on my phone, so card."”

“Do you have any card? I want to make a poster.”

“As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye […].”

“"He's a cheery old card," muttered Harry to Jack / As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. / . . . / But he did for them both by his plan of attack.”

“MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing. EVE: Oh, Marek, you card.”

“What's on the card for tonight?”

“He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.”

“The button will "see" the cursor through a card domain graphic; you can then change button graphics on each card.”

“The interaction model of WAP, originally developed for mobile phones to interact with information services in a web-like way, was based on Apple's HyperCard, and instead of pages, the user interacted with a deck of cards, which were interlinked by a scripting language.”

“The basic building blocks of WML applications are cards. Cards are equivalent to HTML pages. Just as Web browser can show only one page at a time (except when using frames), a WAP enabled device can also show only one card at a time.”

“She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.”

“The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.”

“You can make most theory answers without cards, but some cards do exist which specifically criticize kritiks on a theoretical basis.”

“to put a card in the newspapers”

“This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.”

“"The Lord possessed me [= Wisdom] in the beginning of his way, even before his works of old was I set up;" that law, which hath been the pattern to make, and is the card to guide the world by”

“All the quarters that they know / I' the shipman's card.”

“Where's your card? I want to see your grades.”

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