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card Synonyms & Antonyms

/kɑːd/

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Card as a Symbol

1

cardinality

Card as a Noun

1

Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.

2

A playing card.

3

Any game using playing cards; a card game.

He played cards with his friends.

4

A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose.

The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.

5

A bank card.

6

Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).

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.

Do you have any card? I want to make a poster.

8

A map or chart.

9

An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.

10

A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.

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.

12

A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.

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.

14

A greeting card.

She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.

15

A business card.

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.

17

A test card.

18

In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.

19

A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.

to put a card in the newspapers

20

A printed programme.

21

An attraction or inducement.

This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

22

Ellipsis of compass card.

23

A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.

24

A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.

25

An indicator card.

26

Ellipsis of report card.

Where's your card? I want to see your grades.

27

A form signed by an employee to agree to representation by a union.

28

Material with embedded short wire bristles.

29

A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.

30

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.

31

A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

32

A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

33

Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).

34

Obsolete form of chard.

35

(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.

He played cards with his friends.

36

A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.

He accused them of playing the race card.

37

An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.

38

A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.

What’s on the card for tonight?

39

Title card / 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.

40

(by extension) An attraction or inducement.

This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

41

A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.

42

One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)

43

Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.

44

Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.

45

(color) A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)

46

Short for cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., zero, one, two, three). (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal number.)

47

(grammar) Short for cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.

48

Short for cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.

49

Short for cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.

50

(bow) A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.

51

Mulled red wine.

Card as a Verb

1

To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.

They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.

2

To play cards.

3

To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.

4

To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

5

To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.

6

To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.

to card a horse

7

To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

8

To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

Card in a Sentence

He played cards with his friends.

The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.

He accused them of playing the race card.

Cashier: "Cash or card? Customer: "I'm paying on my phone, so card."

Do you have any card? I want to make a poster.

What's on the card for tonight?

He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.

She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.

The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.

to put a card in the newspapers

This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

Where's your card? I want to see your grades.

They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.

I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.

McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.

to card a horse

What’s on the card for tonight?

Word Forms & Grammar

card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)

card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)

card (plural cards)

Words That Rhyme With Card

Origin of Card

Origin 1: 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.

Origin 2: From Middle English carde, Old French carde, from Old Occitan carda, deverbal from cardar, from Late Latin *carito, from Latin carō (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Origin 3: From Middle English carden, from Old French carder, from carde (“cotton card”); see Etymology 2 for more.

Card: Key Facts

Part of speechsymbol, noun, verb
Pronunciation/kɑːd/
Meaningcardinality
Pluralcards
Verb formscards, carding, carded

Card: Your Questions Answered

Is card a symbol or a noun?

Card is mainly used as a symbol, but it can also be used as a noun and a verb.

What is the plural of card?

The plural of card is cards.

What is the past tense of card?

The past tense of card is carded. The present participle is carding.