Card Definition

kärd
carded, carding, cards
noun
cards
A flat, stiff piece of thick paper or thin pasteboard, usually rectangular.
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A game played with cards.
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A series of contests making up a program, esp. in boxing.
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The playing of games with cards.
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An event or attraction as described in a printed program.
Drawing card.
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verb
carded, carding, cards
To provide with a card.
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To list on cards for filing, cataloging, etc.
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To put on a card.
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To warn or eject (a soccer player who has committed a flagrant foul) by showing a yellow card or a red card.
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To make as a score in golf.
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Synonyms:
abbreviation
Cardinal.
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adjective

Of or involving playing cards.

A card trick.
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Synonyms:
idiom
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.

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in the cards
  • Likely or certain to happen:

    My promotion to a higher position just isn't in the cards.

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put
  • To make frank and clear revelation, as of one's motives or intentions.
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card up one's sleeve
  • a plan or resource kept secret or held in reserve
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in the cards
  • likely or seemingly destined to happen
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Other Word Forms of Card

Noun

Singular:
card
Plural:
cards

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Card

Origin of Card

  • 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”).

    From Wiktionary

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English carde from Old French carte from Latin charta paper made from papyrus from Greek khartēs

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English carde from Medieval Latin cardus from Latin carduus thistle

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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