card
noun
[ kɑːd ]
• a piece of thick, stiff paper or thin pasteboard, in particular one used for writing or printing on.
• "some notes jotted down on a card"
• a small rectangular piece of plastic containing personal data in a machine-readable form and used to obtain cash or credit or to pay for a phone call, gain entry to a room or building, etc.
• "your card cannot be used to withdraw more than your daily limit from cash machines"
• a playing card.
• "a pack of cards"
• short for expansion card.
• documents relating to an employee, especially for tax and national insurance, held by the employer.
• a programme of events at a race meeting.
• "a nine-race card"
• a person regarded as odd or amusing.
• "He laughed: ‘You're a card, you know’"
card
verb
• write (something) on a card, especially for indexing.
• check the identity card of (someone), in particular as evidence of legal drinking age.
• "we were carded at the entrance to the club"
• (of an amateur athlete) be in receipt of government funding to pursue training.
• "in 1986–7 all carded athletes received a basic $450 monthly allowance"
Origin:
late Middle English (in sense 3 of the noun): from Old French carte, from Latin carta, charta, from Greek khartēs ‘papyrus leaf’.
card
verb
• comb and clean (raw wool, hemp fibres, or similar material) with a sharp-toothed instrument in order to disentangle the fibres before spinning.
• "the wool from the sheep was carded and spun"
card
noun
• a toothed implement or machine for carding wool.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French carde, from Provençal carda, from cardar ‘tease, comb’, based on Latin carere ‘to card’.
Card.
abbreviation
• Cardinal.
