card

Speech parts

1. card - Noun

2. card - Verb

3. Card - Proper noun

Meaning

A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.

A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.

A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.

An indicator card. See under Indicator.

To play at cards; to game.

An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.

To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

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the managers presented their cards to the umpire at home plate Source: Internet

a poster advertised the coming attractions Source: Internet

the menu was in French Source: Internet

he collected cards and traded them with the other boys Source: Internet

he had to show his card to get in Source: Internet

you have to turn in your card to get a handicap Source: Internet

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