card

(Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A playing card.
2. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
3. (countable, uncountable) A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
4. (countable, uncountable) Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
5. (uncountable) 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.
6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A map or chart.
7. (countable, informal, uncountable) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
8. (countable, uncountable) A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
9. (countable, uncountable) 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.
10. (countable, uncountable) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
11. (countable, uncountable) Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
12. (countable, uncountable) A greeting card.
13. (countable, uncountable) A business card.
14. (countable, uncountable) 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.
15. (countable, uncountable) A test card.
16. (countable, uncountable) In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
17. (countable, dated, uncountable) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
18. (countable, dated, uncountable) A printed programme.
19. (broadly, countable, dated, figuratively, uncountable) An attraction or inducement.
20. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of compass card.
21. (countable, uncountable) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
22. (countable, uncountable) A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.
23. (countable, uncountable) An indicator card.
24. (Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of report card.

Verb

1. (US, transitive) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
2. (dated) To play cards.
3. (transitive) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

Verb

1. To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
2. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
3. (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
4. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kɑːd/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: carde

Geërf van Middle English: carden

In summary

From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of chart.

Sinonieme

map

playing card

postcard

board

menu

tease

circuit card

ticket

🎫

circuit board

sheet

carte

hackle

bill of fare

greeting card

letter

scorecard

calling card

notice

posting

visiting card

comb

identity card

cardboard

wit

cotton card

batting order

wag

carte du jour

bill

tag

card game

slip

document

punch card

poster

picture postcard

placard

🪧

business card

label

🏷️

lineup

add-in

plug-in

checkpoint

charter

ask for

chart

💹

certificate

billet

hand

✋

cd

💿

Sinne

Please take a business card .

In simple language it is an electronic version of the card catalogue .

A card hanging in the doorway announced that several languages were spoken in the shop .

Those women are all card sharks , don't be fooled .