card

Значение

Noun

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

Verb

1. To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
2. To play cards.
3. 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. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
4. (obsolete) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
5. (obsolete) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

Произносится как (IPA)

/kɑːd/

Этимология

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

Предложения

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

На простом языке это электронная версия каталога карт.

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

Эти женщины - все карточные акулы, не обманывайте себя.