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Cards

noun
Word Frequency: 19.7

Definitions

1.nounA playing card.
2.noun(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
"He played cards with his friends."
3.nounA resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
"He accused them of playing the race card."
4.nounAny flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
5.nounA map or chart.
6.nounAn amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
7.nounA list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
"What’s on the card for tonight?"
8.nounA 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.nounA 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.nounA greeting card.
"She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby."
11.nounA business card.
"The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house."
12.nounTitle 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.nounA test card.
14.nounA published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
"to put a card in the newspapers"
15.nounA printed programme.
16.noun(by extension) An attraction or inducement.
"This will be a good card for the last day of the fair."
17.nounA paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
18.nounA perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
19.nounAn indicator card.
20.verbTo check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
"I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store."
21.verbTo play cards.
22.verbTo make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
"McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round."
23.nounMaterial with embedded short wire bristles.
24.nounA comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
25.nounA 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.
26.nounA machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
27.nounA roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
28.verbTo use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
29.verbTo scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
30.verbTo comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
"to card a horse"
31.verbTo clean or clear, as if by using a card.
32.verbTo mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
33.nounOne of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)
34.nounAny of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
35.nounAny of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
36.noun(color) A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)
37.nounShort for cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., zero, one, two, three). (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal number.)
38.noun(grammar) Short for cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.
39.nounShort for cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.
40.nounShort for cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.
41.noun(bow) A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
42.nounMulled red wine.
43.nounCard games
"He's a fan of cards."

Synonyms

card gameslipspasscartpaperspostcardboardsbookscharterlicensinglicensedpatent

Rhymes With

shardsregardsdisregardsnardsblowhardslardspostcardsdiehards
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