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card 1       (kärd)  Pronunciation Key  n.   A flat, usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, cardboard, or plastic, especially: One of a set or pack bearing significant numbers, symbols, or figures, used in games and in divination. A greeting card. A post card. One bearing a person's name and other information, used for purposes of identification or classification. One bearing the image and often the statistics of a sports figure. A business card. A credit card. A magnetic card. One used for recording information in a file: an index card; a recipe card. A game played with cards. The playing of games with cards. A menu, as in a restaurant. A wine list. A circuit board, especially for use in a computer. A punch card. Something, such as an advantageous circumstance or tactical maneuver, that can be used to help gain an objective. Often used with play: "[He believed that] Soviet Russia ... had far more Iranian cards to play than the United States" (Theodore Draper). An appeal to a specified issue or argument, usually one involving strong emotions. Often used with play: "His exposure as a racist ... allowed the defense to play the race card" (New York Times). cards (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Games A game played with cards. The playing of games with cards. A menu, as in a restaurant. A wine list. A circuit board, especially for use in a computer. A punch card. Something, such as an advantageous circumstance or tactical maneuver, that can be used to help gain an objective. Often used with play: "[He believed that] Soviet Russia ... had far more Iranian cards to play than the United States" (Theodore Draper). An appeal to a specified issue or argument, usually one involving strong emotions. Often used with play: "His exposure as a racist ... allowed the defense to play the race card" (New York Times). A program, especially for a sports event. A menu, as in a restaurant. A wine list. A circuit board, especially for use in a computer. A punch card. Something, such as an advantageous circumstance or tactical maneuver, that can be used to help gain an objective. Often used with play: "[He believed that] Soviet Russia ... had far more Iranian cards to play than the United States" (Theodore Draper). An appeal to a specified issue or argument, usually one involving strong emotions. Often used with play: "His exposure as a racist ... allowed the defense to play the race card" (New York Times). Computer Science A circuit board, especially for use in a computer. A punch card. Something, such as an advantageous circumstance or tactical maneuver, that can be used to help gain an objective. Often used with play: "[He believed that] Soviet Russia ... had far more Iranian cards to play than the United States" (Theodore Draper). An appeal to a specified issue or argument, usually one involving strong emotions. Often used with play: "His exposure as a racist ... allowed the defense to play the race card" (New York Times). A compass card. Informal An eccentrically amusing person. Something, such as an advantageous circumstance or tactical maneuver, that can be used to help gain an objective. Often used with play: "[He believed that] Soviet Russia ... had far more Iranian cards to play than the United States" (Theodore Draper). An appeal to a specified issue or argument, usually one involving strong emotions. Often used with play: "His exposure as a racist ... allowed the defense to play the race card" (New York Times). tr.v.   card·ed, card·ing, cards To furnish with or attach to a card. To list (something) on a card; catalog. To check the identification of, especially in order to verify legal age. Sports To warn or eject (a soccer player who has committed a flagrant foul) by showing a yellow card or a red card. Phrasal Verb(s): card in To sign in, as at a place of business, by use of a magnetic card. card out To sign out, as from a place of business, by use of a magnetic card. Idiom(s): card up (one's) sleeve A secret resource or plan held in reserve: a tough negotiator who had a number of cards up his sleeve. Idiom(s): in the cards Likely or certain to happen: My promotion to a higher position just isn't in the cards. Idiom(s): put/lay (one's) cards on the table To make frank and clear revelation, as of one's motives or intentions. [Middle English carde, from Old French carte, from Latin charta, paper made from papyrus, from Greek khartēs.]

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card 2       (kärd)  Pronunciation Key  n.   A wire-toothed brush or a machine fitted with rows of wire teeth, used to disentangle fibers, as of wool, prior to spinning. A device used to raise the nap on a fabric. tr.v.   card·ed, card·ing, cards To comb out or brush with a card. [Middle English carde, from Medieval Latin cardus, from Latin carduus, thistle.] card'er n.

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card  (n.)

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noun
1.	one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes; "he collected cards and traded them with the other boys"
2.	a card certifying the identity of the bearer; "he had to show his card to get in"
3.	a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures); "they sent us a card from Miami"
4.	thin cardboard, usually rectangular
5.	a witty amusing person who makes jokes [syn: wag]
6.	a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions" [syn: poster]
7.	a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited [syn: calling card]
8.	(golf) a record of scores (as in golf); "you have to turn in your card to get a handicap"
9.	a list of dishes available at a restaurant; "the menu was in French" [syn: menu]
10.	(baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat; "the managers presented their cards to the umpire at home plate" [syn: batting order]
11.	a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities [syn: circuit board]
verb
1.	separate the fibers of; "tease wool" [syn: tease]
2.	ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor; "I was carded when I tried to buy a beer!"

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card

In addition to the idioms beginning with card, also see hold all the aces (the trump card); house of cards; in the cards; lay one's cards on the table; play one's cards close to one's chest play one's cards right; trump card; wild card.

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card
1. A circuit board.
2. A punched card.
3. An alternative term for a node in a system (e.g. HyperCard, Notecards) in which the node size is limited.

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Card\, n. [F. carte, fr. L. charta paper, Gr. ? 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. --Shak.

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.

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Card

Card\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Carded; p. pr. & vb. n. Carding.] To play at cards; to game. --Johnson.

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Card

Card\, n. [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.

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Card

Card\, v. 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.

Note: 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.

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Card player on St. Louis Cardinals baseball team