card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kärd
ipa: /kɑːd/
ipa: [kʰɑːd]
ipa: /kɑɹd/
ipa: [kʰɑɹd]
ipa: /kaːd/
ipa: [kʰäːd]
ipa: /kɐːd/
ipa: [kʰɐːd]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: cards
Etymology: From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of chart.
Senses: examples: text: As each card is played in blackjack, it changes the possibilities for both player and dealer by diminishing the number and the variety of cards that may be dealt.
ref: 1963 January 25, “Games: Beating the Dealer”, in Time:
glosses: A playing card.
examples: text: He played cards with his friends.
glosses: Any game using playing cards; a card game.
examples: text: The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
text: He accused them of playing the race card.
text: Having adopted civil union as their goal, proponents of the Civil Union Bill were sensitive to the need not to overplay the human rights card, aware that there was a significant degree of resistance in the New Zealand […]
ref: 2007, Luke McNamara, Human Rights Controversies: The Impact of Legal Form, page 138:
text: Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all.
ref: 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 24:24 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
glosses: A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
glosses: Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
examples: text: Do you have any card? I want to make a poster.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye […].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
glosses: A map or chart.
examples: text: "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.
ref: 1918, Siegfried Sassoon, The General:
text: MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.
EVE: Oh, Marek, you card.
ref: 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan:
glosses: An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
examples: text: What's on the card for tonight?
glosses: A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: 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.
examples: text: He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: expansion card
glosses: A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
examples: text: The button will "see" the cursor through a card domain graphic; you can then change button graphics on each card.
ref: 1993, Danny Goodman, The Complete HyperCard 2.2 Handbook, page 198:
text: The interaction model of WAP, originally developed for mobile phones to interact with information services in a web-like way, was based on Apple's HyperCard, and instead of pages, the user interacted with a deck of cards, which were interlinked by a scripting language.
ref: 2008, Johan Hjelm, Why IPTV?: Interactivity, Technologies, Services, page 13:
text: The basic building blocks of WML applications are cards. Cards are equivalent to HTML pages. Just as Web browser can show only one page at a time (except when using frames), a WAP enabled device can also show only one card at a time.
ref: 2012, Veljko Milutinovic, Frédéric Patricelli, Mastering E-Business Infrastructure, page 329:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
examples: text: She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
glosses: A greeting card.
examples: text: The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
glosses: A business card.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: 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.
glosses: A test card.
examples: text: You can make most theory answers without cards, but some cards do exist which specifically criticize kritiks on a theoretical basis.
ref: 2011, N. Andre Cossette, The Art of Debate: 12th Edition, page 123:
glosses: In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
examples: text: to put a card in the newspapers
glosses: A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
glosses: A printed programme.
examples: text: This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
glosses: An attraction or inducement.
examples: text: "The Lord possessed me [= Wisdom] in the beginning of his way, even before his works of old was I set up;" that law, which hath been the pattern to make, and is the card to guide the world by
ref: 1594, Richard Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, 1.2.5, page 153 (Everyman edition, vol. 1):
text: All the quarters that they know / I' the shipman's card.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Ellipsis of compass card.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: deck
glosses: A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.
glosses: An indicator card.
examples: text: Where's your card? I want to see your grades.
topics: education
glosses: Ellipsis of report card.
Hyponyms: sense: playing cards
word: court card
sense: piece of plastic
word: affinity card
sense: piece of plastic
word: credit card
sense: piece of plastic
word: debit card
Derived terms: 3 card monte
3-card monte
52-card pickup
accelerator card
affinity card
altar card
at-home card
audio card
backcard
bank card
bankcard
baseball card
bingo card
birthday card
black card
blue card
boardcard
boarding card
Bod card
borrowing card
breast one's cards
business card
cabinet card
calling-card
calling card
capture card
card assembly
cardbearer
cardboard
card-carrying
cardcase
card catalog
card catalogue
card clash
card-clothing
card counter
card counting
card-dead
card game
card girl
card giving
cardholder
cardholding
cardhouse
card-house
card house
cardician
card-index
cardistry
card key
cardless
cardlike
cardmaker
cardmaking
card mechanic
cardmember
card of introduction
card of ten
cardphone
card phone
cardplay
cardplayer
cardplaying
card punch
card reader
card-reader
card removal
card-room
cardroom
cardshark
card shark
card-sharp
cardsharp
card sharp
cardsharper
cardsharping
card stand
card stock
card stunt
card table
card tart
card trick
cardware
cash card
chance card
charge card
chargecard
CharlieCard
cheque card
chest one's cards
chewcard
chipcard
chip card
Christmas card
cigarette card
clue card
coat card
community card
compass card
comp card
condolence card
contact card
contactless card
cooling card
cotton card
court card
courtesy card
credit card
credit card tart
credit card terminal
cue card
cut card
dance card
dance-card
daughtercard
death card
debit card
deck of cards
dinner-card
discard
discount card
disloyalty card
donor card
downcard
do you accept credit cards
draft card
drawcard
drawing card
duty card
e-card
e-gift card
Ethernet card
Eurocard
expansion card
face card
falsecard
farecard
fare card
few cards short of a full deck
few cards shy of a full deck
fidelity card
file card
file-card
filmcard
filter card
five-card stud
flashcard
flash card
flipcard
gaijin card
gamecard
gender card
get-out-of-jail-free card
get out of jail free card
gift card
give someone his cards
give someone their cards
Grace's card
graphics card
green card
greeting card
greetings card
hand card
hand someone his cards
hand someone their cards
have the cards
have the cards in one's hands
high-card
high card
hold all of the cards
hold all the cards
hold the cards
hole card
Hollerith card
holy card
honor card
honour card
house of cards
hovercard
how-to-vote card
HTV card
hypercard
ID card
identicard
identification card
identity card
idiot card
index card
indicator card
inlay card
in the cards
J-card
keep one's cards close to one's chest
keycard
key card
king card
k'rect card
laser card
lay one's cards on the table
letter card
lettercard
library card
line card
liner card
lobby card
loyalty card
magnetic card
mark someone's card
Mass card
Mastercard
maxi card
maxi-card
maximum card
Meghdoot card
membership card
memory card
menage-a-card
MetroCard
microcard
milk card
Miranda card
model card
name card
network card
network interface card
noncard
note card
notecard
Octopus card
one card short of a full deck
one card shy of a full deck
on the cards
oracle card
overcard
Oyster card
pack of cards
palm card
party card
party membership card
party-membership card
passcard
passport card
pattern card
payment card
PC Card
peekaboo card
penalty card
phonecard
phone card
photocard
picture card
piecard
place card
place one's cards on the table
plasticard
play all one's cards
player's card
playing card
play one's cards well
play the gender card
play the Nazi card
play the race card
play the victim card
poll card
post card
postcard
prayer card
press card
punch card
punchcard
punched card
pushcard
put one's cards on the table
QSL card
rabbi card
racecard
race card
railcard
rape card
ration card
rebbe card
red card
red-card
report card
reward card
rookie card
safety card
scorecard
scratch card
SD card
SDHC card
sea card
second yellow card
Sed card
seven-card stud
shared card
Shirley card
showcard
show one's cards
shuffle the cards
SIM card
small card
small-card
smartcard
smart card
soundcard
sound card
speak by the card
sports card
spot card
stack the cards
storecard
stored-value card
storm card
straight red card
swipecard
swipe card
sympathy card
system card
tarot card
tart card
tea card
telephone card
test card
thank you card
three card brag
three-card marney
three-card monte
three-card shuffle
three-card trick
three-card trickster
throw in the cards
time card
timecard
title card
tourist card
trade card
trading card
travelcard
trollcard
trump card
trust everybody, but cut the cards
uncredit card
undercard
union card
Uno reverse card
upcard
vanity card
V-card
V card
Ventra card
video card
visiting card
waist card
warning card
warrant card
wedding card
white card
wildcard
wild-card
wild card
window card
yellow card
yellow-card
Z card
Zener card