Card

Noun

 * 1) A playing card.
 * 2)  Any game using playing cards; a card game.
 * 3) A resource or an argument, used to a achieve a purpose.
 * 4) Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
 * 5)  A map or chart.
 * 6)  An amusing but slightly foolish person.
 * 7) A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
 * 8)  A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
 * 9)  A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
 * 10)  A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

Verb

 * 1) To check IDs at a venue with a minimum age requirement
 * 2)  To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
 * 3) To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.

Adjectives for Card

 * (calling) ill-judged; official; engraved; neatly-typed; attention-compelling.
 * (playing) best; false; winning; shuffled; precious; worn; greasy; stacked.

Verbs
arrange —s; box —s; cheat at —s; draw—; flash—; gather —s; introduce —s; mark—s; pack—s; perforate—; shuffle—s; stack—s; stake —s; stencil —s; throw up —s; trump—; wager on —s; — allot; —designates; —slides; —slips; —warrants.

Derived terms

 * baseball card
 * birthday card
 * business card
 * card-carrying
 * cardboard
 * card game
 * card reader
 * card shark
 * card sharp
 * Christmas card
 * credit card
 * dance card
 * Ethernet card
 * expansion card
 * graphics card
 * green card
 * greeting card
 * how-to-vote card
 * index card
 * in the cards


 * memory card
 * network card
 * on the cards
 * PCMCIA card
 * playing card
 * postcard
 * red card
 * report card
 * SDHC card
 * soundcard
 * tarot card
 * yellow card
 * warning card
 * Zener card

Thesaurus
postcard, practical joker, prankster, press card, probable, program, program of operation, programma, prospectus, protocol, queen, rake, rein, rope, roster, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff, schedule, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, sennit, serial number, shoestring, signature, sinew, singleton, slate, slated, slip, spades, straight, string, take action, tape, tendon, tessera, thew, ticker tape, timetable, trey, trick, trump, twine, videotape, visiting card, wag, whipcord, zany, ace, act, agenda, badge, batting order, behave, best bower, bill, bill of fare, binding twine, blueprint, bower, budget, bulletin board, cable, calendar, calligram, calling card, cards, carte du jour, catalog card, catgut, clubs, comb, come clean, comedian, countermark, countersign, credentials, credit card, curry, deck, destined, deuce, diamonds, disc, docket, dog tag, dummy, face cards, fast, fated, file, filing card, film, flush, full house, gut, hackle, hamstring, hand, hatchel, hawser, hearts, heckle, humorist, identification, identification badge, identification tag, in the offing, index card, initials, jack, joker, king, knave, lace, lacing, lariat, lasso, lead, leader, left bower, letter of introduction, lettercard, liable, library catalog, likely, lineup, list of agenda, magnetic tape, marker, menu, microcard, microdot, microfiche, microfilm, monofilament, monogram, motion-picture film, pack, pair, pasteboard, phonograph record, picture cards, picture postcard, plan, platter, playbill, playing cards, possible,

Etymology

 * 1) From  carde:, from  carte:, from  charta:, from  χάρτης:.


 * 1) From  carde:, from  carda:, deverbal from cardar:, from , from  carrere:, from.