Word: card Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of carte and chart. Pronunciation: /kɑːd/, [kʰɑːd], /kɑɹd/, [kʰɑɹd], /kaːd/ 1. A playing card. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. 2. Any game using playing cards; a card game. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: He played cards with his friends. 3. A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy. Example: He accused them of playing the race card. 4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A bank card. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Cashier: "Cash or card? Customer: "I'm paying on my phone, so card." 7. 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. Labels: uncountable Example: Do you have any card? I want to make a poster. 8. A map or chart. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye […]. 9. An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: "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. Example: MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing. EVE: Oh, Marek, you card. 10. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: What's on the card for tonight? 11. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet. 13. Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The button will "see" the cursor through a card domain graphic; you can then change button graphics on each card. Example: 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. 14. A greeting card. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby. 15. A business card. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house. 16. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable 17. A test card. Labels: countable, uncountable 18. In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: You can make most theory answers without cards, but some cards do exist which specifically criticize kritiks on a theoretical basis. 19. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable Example: to put a card in the newspapers 20. A printed programme. Labels: countable, dated, uncountable 21. An attraction or inducement. Labels: broadly, countable, dated, figuratively, uncountable Example: This will be a good card for the last day of the fair. 22. Ellipsis of compass card. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: "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 Example: All the quarters that they know / I' the shipman's card. 23. A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. Labels: countable, uncountable 24. A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex. Labels: countable, uncountable 25. An indicator card. Labels: countable, uncountable 26. Ellipsis of report card. Labels: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Where's your card? I want to see your grades. 27. A form signed by an employee to agree to representation by a union. Labels: countable, uncountable