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Webster 1913 Edition

Card

Card

(kärd)
,
Noun.
[F.
carte
, fr. L.
charta
paper, Gr. [GREEK] a leaf of paper. Cf.
Chart
.]
1.
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.
Our first
cards
were to Carabas House.
Thackeray.
2.
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
.
3.
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner’s compass.
All the quartere that they know
I' the shipman's
card
.
Shakespeare
4.
(Weaving)
A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See
Jacquard
.
5.
An indicator card. See under
Indicator
.
Business card
,
a card on which is printed an advertisement or business address.
–
Card basket
(a)
A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers.
(b)
A basket made of cardboard.
–
Card catalogue
.
See
Catalogue
.
–
Card rack
,
a rack or frame for holding and displaying business or visiting card.
–
Card table
,
a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one having a leaf which folds over.
–
On the cards
,
likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; – a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme.
–
Playing card
,
cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards.
–
To have the cards in one's own hands
,
to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking.
–
To play one's cards well
,
to make no errors; to act shrewdly.
–
To play snow one's cards
,
to expose one's plants to rivals or foes.
–
To speak by the card
,
to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card.
–
Visiting card
,
a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person presenting it.

Card

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Carded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Carding
.]
To play at cards; to game.
Johnson.

Card

,
Noun.
[F.
carde
teasel, the head of a thistle, card, from L.
carduus
,
cardus
, thistle, fr.
carere
to card.]
1.
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.
2.
A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
Card clothing
,
strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines.

Card

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding;
as, to
card
wool; to
card
a horse
.
These
card
the short comb the longer flakes.
Dyer.
2.
To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
[Obs.]
This book [must] be
carded
and purged.
T. Shelton.
3.
To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
[Obs.]
You
card
your beer, if you guests being to be drunk. – half small, half strong.
Greene.
☞ In the manufacture of wool, cotton, etc., the process of carding disentangles and collects together all the fibers, of whatever length, and thus differs from combing, in which the longer fibers only are collected, while the short straple is combed away. See
Combing
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Card

CARD

, n.
1.
A paper or pasteboard of a oblong figure, on which are painted figures or points; used in games.
2.
A blank piece of paper, or the like paper with some writing upon it, used in messages of civility, or business.
3.
The paper on which the points of the compass are marked.
Reason the card, but passion is the gale.

CARD

,
Verb.
I.
To play much at cards; to gain.

CARD

,
Noun.
An instrument for combing, opening and breaking wool or flax, freeing it from the coarser parts, and from extraneous matter. It is made by inserting bent teeth of wire in a thick piece of leather, and nailing this to a piece of oblong board, to which a handle is attached.

CARD

,
Verb.
T.
To comb, or open wool, flax, hemp, &c., with a card, for the purpose of cleansing it of extraneous matter, separating the coarser parts, and making it fine and soft for spinning.

Definition 2024

card

card

See also: cârd

Translingual

Symbol

card

  1. (mathematics) cardinality

Synonyms

English

Some playing cards
A business card
An identity card
A network card (electronic device inserted into a computer)

Noun

card ‎(countable and uncountable, plural cards)

  1. A playing card.
  2. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
    He played cards with his friends.
  3. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
    The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
    He accused them of playing the race card.
  4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
  5. (obsolete) A map or chart.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
      As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye [...].
  6. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.[1]
    • 1918, Siegfried Sassoon, The General
      "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.
    • 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan
      MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.
      EVE: Oh, Marek, you card.
  7. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
    What’s on the card for tonight?
  8. (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.
  9. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
    He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.
  10. A greeting card.
    She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
  11. A business card.
    The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
  12. (television) Title card / 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.
  13. test card
  14. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
    to put a card in the newspapers
  15. (dated) A printed programme.
  16. (dated, figuratively, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
    This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
  17. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
    • Shakespeare
      All the quarters that they know / I' the shipman's card.
  18. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
  19. An indicator card.
Derived terms
See also
Suits in English · suits (see also: cards, playing cards) (layout · text)
hearts diamonds spades clubs
Translations

Verb

card ‎(third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)

  1. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
    They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
    I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.
  2. (dated) To play cards.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
Translations

References

  1. ↑
    • “card” (US) / “card” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.: "5. informal A person regarded as odd or amusing"
    • "card" at Collins English Dictionary: "6. (informal) a witty, entertaining, or eccentric person"
    • “card” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2015.: "7. Informal An eccentrically amusing person."
    • "card" at Macmillan Dictionary: "7. [countable] informal old-fashioned someone who makes you laugh"

Etymology 2

From Old French carde, from Old Provençal carda, deverbal from cardar, from Late Latin *carito, from Latin carrere ‎(“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker, *sker ‎(“to cut”).

Noun

card ‎(countable and uncountable, plural cards)

  1. (uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
  2. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
  3. (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.
  4. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  5. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
Translations

Verb

card ‎(third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)

  1. (textiles) 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.
    to card a horse
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of Dyer to this entry?)
  4. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
    • (Can we date this quote?) T. Shelton
      This book [must] be carded and purged.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Greene
      You card your beer, if your guests begin to be drunk, half small, half strong.
Translations

Etymology 3

From cardinal

Noun

card ‎(plural cards)

  1. Abbreviation of cardinal. (songbird)

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkar/

Etymology

From Latin carduus.

Noun

card m ‎(plural cards)

  1. thistle

Italian

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kard̪]

Noun

card m ‎(invariable)

  1. card (identification, financial, SIM etc (but not playing card))

See also

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kɑːd/, [kʰɑːd]
  • (US) enPR: kärd, IPA(key): /kɑɹd/, [kʰɑɹd]
  • (Australia) IPA(key): /kaːd/, [kʰäːd]
  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /kɐːd/, [kʰɐːd]
  • Hyphenation: card
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

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