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Card

Definition: Card

Card

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. (informal) a witty amusing person who makes jokes.

6. A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions".

7. A written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited.

8. 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".

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".

11. : a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities.

Verb

1. Separate the fibers of.

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!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "card" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Card \Card\, noun. [French carde teasel, the head of a thistle, card, from Latin carduus, cardus, thistle, from carere to card.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Card

DomainDefinition

Computing

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. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Aerospace

1. A punched card, used in computer operations for the storage of information in the form of holes punched through the card material. Standard punched cards are 7.375 x 3.250 x 0.007 inches, containing either 80 columns in each of which any of 12 positions may be punched or 90 columns in each of which any combination of 6 places may be punched. 2. Any card adapted for the storage of information.3. A printed-circuit board, usually before other parts are mounted therein. See module, package. (references)

Agriculture

Center for Agricultural and Rural Development. (references)

Industry

The needle press against a multi-sided wooden box called the card cylinder, which is pierced with rows of holes. . . The -- therefore decides the pattern of the weave for 1 pick or weft. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Card That's the card. The right thing; the ticket. The reference is to tickets of admission, cards of the races, and programmes.
"10s. is about the card."- Mayhew: London Labour, etc.
A queer card. An eccentric person, "indifferent honest." A difficult lead in cards to play to.
A knowing card. A sharp fellow, next door to a sharper. The allusion is to card-sharpers and their tricks.
"Whose great aim it was to be considered a knowing card."- Dickens: Sketches, etc.
A great card. A big wig; the boss of the season; a person of note. A big card.
A leading card. A star actor. A person leads from his strongest suit.
A loose card. A worthless fellow who lives on the loose.
"A loose card is a card of no value, and, consequently, the properest to throw away."- Hoyle: Games, etc.
A sure card. A person one can fully depend on; a person sure to command success. A project to be certainly depended on. As a winning card in one's hand.
He is the card of our house. The man of mark, the most distingué. Osric tells Hamlet that Laertës is "the card and calendar of gentry" (v. 2). The card is a card of a compass, containing all its points. Laertës is the card of gentry, in whom may be seen all its points. We also say "a queer card," meaning an odd fish.
That was my best trump card. My best chance. The allusion is to loo, whist, and other games played with cards.
To play one's best card. To do that which one hopes is most likely to secure success.
To speak by the card. To speak by the book, be as precise as a map or book, be as precise as a map or book. A merchant's expression. The card is the document in writing containing the agreements made between a merchant and the captain of a vessel. Sometimes the owner binds himself, ship, tackle, and furniture for due performance, and the captain is bound to deliver the cargo committed to him in good condition. To speak by the card is to speak according to the indentures or written instructions. In some cases the reference is to the card of a mariner's compass.
"Law ... is the card to guide the world by."- Hooker: Ecc. Pol., part ii. sec. 5.
"We must speak by the card, or equivocation
Will undo us."- Shakespeare: Hamlet, v. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang

Noun. Source: Webmaster and reporter for professional wrestling website. Definition: The series of matches in one location at one time. Context: Used by professional wrestling fans and reporters when discussing the sport and related topics. Social Source: Internet Professional Wrestling Webmasters/ Reporters. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Card

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The term card has many different meanings. These include:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Card."

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Card game

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A card game is any game using playing cards, either traditional or specialized. A participant in such a game is a card player.

Other games using cards include trading card games and combination games which use cards in addition to other playing equipment.

Trick-taking games

Matching games

These are also referred to as the Rummy family.

Gambling games

Solitaire or Patience games

(see a guide to solitaire terminology)

Shedding games

These are also referred to as the Stops family.

Accumulating games

Games with special decks

Cooperative games

Inductive games

Multi-genre games

Trading card games

See also: Board game

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Carding

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Carding is the processing of raw or washed wool by brushing it. Hand carders are like dog brushes and are used two at a time, brushing the wool between the two until all the fibers in a bunch are going in the same direction. Machine carding is done with brushes on a drum. Wool is fed into the machine, picked up and brushed onto one or more drums, and then removed.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Carding."

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Credit card

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A credit card system is a type of retail transaction settlement and credit system, named after the small plastic card issued to users of the system. A credit card is different from a debit card in that the credit card issuer loans the consumer money rather than having the money removed from an account. All credit cards are the same shape and size, as specified by the ISO 7810 standard.

A credit card user is issued with the card after approval from a provider (often a bank, but sometimes a specialised credit card provider such as American Express or Diners' Club), in which they will be able to make purchases from merchants supporting that credit card up to a prenegotiated credit limit. When a purchase is made, the credit card user indicates their consent to pay, usually by signing a receipt with a record of the card details and indicating the amount to be paid. More recently, electronic verification systems have allowed merchants (using a strip of magnetized material on the card holding information in a similar manner to magnetic tape or a floppy disk) to verify that the card is valid and the credit card customer has sufficient credit to cover the purchase in a few seconds, allowing the verification to happen at time of purchase. Some services can be paid for over the telephone by credit card merely by quoting the number embossed onto the card (the '''credit card number'''), and they can be used in a similar manner to pay for purchases from online vendors.

Each month, the credit card user is sent a statement indicating the purchases undertaken with the card, and the total amount owing. The cardholder must then pay a minimum proportion of the bill by a due date, and may choose to pay more or indeed pay the entire amount owing. The credit provider charges interest on the amount owing (typically, a fairly high rate much higher than most other forms of debt). Typically, a credit card issuers will waive interest charges if the balance is paid in full each month, which allows the credit card to serve as a form of revolving credit.

As well as profits through interest, card companies charge merchants fees for money transfer. When the companies formally or informally prevent these fees from being passed on to credit card users but instead require them to be spread among all customers, this raises the possibility of a harmful market imperfection through the mechanism of the Tragedy of the commons. Australia is currently acting to reduce this by allowing merchants to apply surcharges for credit card users. Credit card companies generally do provide a guarantee the merchant will be paid on legitimate transactions regardless of whether the consumer pays their credit card bill. However, credit card companies generally will not pay a merchant if the consumer challenges the legitimacy of the transaction and will fine merchants who have a large number of chargebacks.

The credit card was the successor of a variety of merchant credit schemes. The concept of paying merchants using a card was invented in 1950 with Diners Club invention of the charge card, which is similar but required the entire bill to be paid with each statement. Credit card service was first offered in 1951.

As well as convenient, accessible credit, the cards offered consumers an easy way to track expenses, which is necessary both for monitoring personal expenditure and the tracking of work-related expenses for taxation and reimbursement purposes. They have now spread worldwide, and are offered in a huge variety of permutations with differing credit limits, repayment arrangements (some cards offer interest-free periods, while others do not but compensate with much lower interest rates), and other perks (such as rewards schemes in which points "earned" for purchasing goods with the card can be reclaimed for further goods and services). In addition, some countries such as the United States limit the amount that a consumer can be held liable for fraudulent transactions which shifts the liability to the merchant. This encourages the use of credit cards for electronic and mail order transactions. They have spread far and wide beyond their initial market of the wealthy businessman and are now ubiquitous amongst the middle class of most Western countries.

The relatively low security of the credit card system presents many opportunities for fraud. However, this does not imply that the system is broken. The goal of the credit card companies is not to eliminate fraud, it is to reduce it to manageable levels, such that the total cost of both fraud and fraud prevention is minimised. This implies that high-cost low-return fraud prevention measures will not be used if their cost exceeds the potential gains from fraud reduction. This opportunity for fraud has created a black market in stolen credit card numbers, which must generally be used quickly before the card is reported stolen.

Credit card numbering

The numbers found on credit cards have a certain amount of internal structure, and share a common numbering scheme.

The card number's prefix is the sequence of digits at the beginning of the number that determine the credit card network to which the number belongs. The card number's length is its number of digits.

The prefixes and lengths for the most common card types are:

Card TypePrefix(es)Length(s)
MasterCard51-5516
Visa413 or 16
American Express34 or 3715
Discover601116
Diners Club / Carte Blanche300-305, 36, or 3814

All legitimate credit card numbers pass a checksum test. The checksum test for credit card numbers is the Luhn formula, described in Annex B to ISO/IEC 7812, Part 1.

Credit card organizations

Collectible Credit Cards

A growing field of numismatics, credit card collectors seek to collect various embodiments of credit from the now familiar plastic cards to older paper merchant cards, and even metal tokens that were accepted as merchant credit cards.

See also: Loan, Electronic money

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Graphics card

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A graphics card or video card is a component of a computer which is designed to display images on some sort of display medium, most often a monitor utilising a variety of display standards.

As was in the past, many graphics cards are standalone devices, attached to a motherboard via the ISA, PCI, VESA, or AGP busses. Increasingly, however, the graphics card is no longer a "card" in the strictest sense, but is an integrated section of the motherboard dedicated to the same purpose.

Since integrated-graphics-displays produce inferior performance compared with standalone graphics cards (due to using cheaper chipsets and system memory rather than dedicated memory), many still prefer non-integrated solutions. These more-advanced graphics cards, usually geared toward displaying 3D graphics for games are still card-based. Their processing engines are sometimes called GPUss (Graphics Processing Units). Conversely, sometimes 3D-graphics capibilities are not relevant to the choice of high-performance graphics card; 2D graphics and fine visual-quality fill specialised niches in areas such as medical imaging.

See also : framebuffer graphics.

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Playing card

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Some typical modern playing cards

A playing card is a typically hand-sized rectangular piece of heavy paper or thin plastic used for playing card games. Playing cards are often used as props in magic tricks, as well as occult practices such as cartomancy, and a number of card games involve (or can be used to support) gambling. As a result, their use sometimes meets with disapproval from some orthodox religious groups. They are also a popular collectible (as distinct from the cards made specifically for trading card games). Specialty and novelty decks are commonly produced for collectors, often with political, cultural, or educational themes.


Shuffling a pack of cards

One side of each card (the "front" or "face") carries markings that distinguish it from the others and determine its use under the rules of the particular game being played, while the other side (the "back") is identical for all cards, usually a plain color or abstract design. In most games, the cards are assembled into a "deck" (or "pack"), and their order is randomized by a procedure called "shuffling" to provide an element of chance in the game.

Early History

The origin of playing cards is obscure, but it is almost certain that they began in China after the invention of paper. Ancient Chinese "money cards" have four "suits": coins (or cash), strings of coins (which may have been misinterpreted as sticks from crude drawings), myriads of strings, and tens of myriads. These were represented by ideograms, with numerals of 2-9 in the first three suits and numerals 1-9 in the "tens of myriads". Wilkinson suggests in The Chinese origin of playing cards that the first cards may have been actual paper currency which were both the tools of gaming and the stakes being played for. The designs on modern Mah Jong tiles and dominoes likely evolved from those earliest playing cards. The Chinese word p'ai is used to describe both paper cards and gaming tiles.

The time and manner of the introduction of cards into Europe are matters of dispute. The 38th canon of the council of Worcester (1240) is often quoted as evidence of cards having been known in England in the middle of the 13th century; but the games de rege et regina there mentioned are now thought to more likely have been chess. If cards were generally known in Europe as early as 1278, it is very remarkable that Petrarch, in his dialogue that treats gaming, never once mentions them. Boccaccio, Chaucer and other writers of that time specifically refer to various games, but there is not a single passage in their works that can be fairly construed to refer to cards. Passages have been quoted from various works, of or relative to this period, but modern research leads to the supposition that the word rendered cards has often been mistranslated or interpolated.

It is likely that the ancestors of modern cards arrived in Europe from the Mamelukes of Egypt in the late 1300s, by which time they had already assumed a form very close to those in use today. In particular, the Mameluke deck contained 52 cards comprising four "suits": polo sticks, coins, swords, and cups. Each suit contained ten "spot" cards (cards identified by the number of suit symbols or "pips" they show) and three "court" cards named malik (King), nā'ib malik (Viceroy or Deputy King), and thānī nā'ib (Second or Under-Deputy). The Mameluke court cards showed abstract designs not depicting persons (at least not in any surviving specimens) though they did bear the names of miltary officers. A complete pack of Mameluke playing cards was discovered by L.A. Mayer in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum, Istanbul, in 1939; this particular complete pack was not made before 1400, but the complete deck allowed matching to a private fragment dated to the twelfth or thirteenth century. There is some evidence to suggest that this deck may have evolved from an earlier 48-card deck that had only two court cards per suit, and some further evidence to suggest that earlier Chinese cards brought to Europe may have travelled to Persia, which then influenced the Mameluke and other Egyptian cards of the time before their reappearance in Europe. It is not known whether these cards influenced the design of the Indian cards used for the game of Ganjifa, or whether the Indian cards may have influenced these, but the Indian cards have many distinctive elements, such being round, being generally had painted with intricate designs, and comprising more than four suits (often as many as twelve).

European Spread and Early Design Changes

In the late 1300s, the use of playing cards spread rapidly across Europe. The first widely-accepted references to cards are in 1371 in Spain, in 1377 in Switzerland, and in 1380 they are referenced in many locations including Florence, Paris, and Barcelona. A Paris ordinance dated 1369 does not mention cards; its 1377 update includes cards. In the account-books of Johanna, duchess of Brabant, and her husband, Wenceslaus of Luxemburg, there is an entry under date of the May 14, 1379 as follows: "Given to Monsieur and Madame four peters, two forms, value eight and a half moutons, wherewith to buy a pack of cards". An early mention of a distinct series of playing cards is the entry of Charles or Charbot Poupart, treasurer of the household of Charles VI of France, in his book of accounts for 1392 or 1393, which records payment for the painting of three sets or packs of cards, which were evidently already well known.

It is clear that the earliest cards were executed by hand, like those designed for Charles VI. However, this was quite expensive, so other means were needed to mass-produce them. It may be that the art of wood engraving, which led to that of printing, may have been developed through the demand for the multiplication of implements of play. The belief that the early card makers or cardpainters of Ulm, Nuremberg and Augsburg, from about 1418 to 1450, were also wood engravers, is founded on the assumption that the cards of that period were printed from wood blocks. Many of the earliest woodcuts were colored by means of a stencil, so it would seem that at the time wood engraving was first introduced, the art of depicting and coloring figures by means of stencil plates was well known. There are no playing cards engraved on wood to which so early a date as 1423 (that of the earliest dated wood engraving generally accepted) can be fairly assigned; and as at this period there were professional card makers established in Germany, it is probable that wood engraving was employed to produce cuts for sacred subjects before it was applied to cards, and that there were hand-painted and stencilled cards before there were wood engravings of saints. The German Brief maler or card-painter probably progressed into the wood engraver; but there is no proof that the earliest wood engravers were the card-makers.

The Europeans experimented with the structure of playing cards, particularly in the 1400s. Europeans changed the court cards to represent European royalty and attendants, originally "king", "chevalier", and "knave" (or "servant"). Queens were introduced in a number of different ways. In an early surviving German pack (dated in the 1440s), Queens replace Kings in two of the suits as the highest card. Throughout the 1400s, 56-card decks were common containing a King, Queen, Knight, and Valet. Suits also varied; many makers saw no need to have a standard set of names for the suits, so early decks often had different suit names (though typically 4 suits).

The cards manufactured by German printers used the suits of hearts, bells, leaves, and acorns still present in German decks today used for Skat and other games. Later Italian and Spanish cards of the 15th century used swords, batons, cups, and coins. It is likely that the Tarot deck was invented in Italy at that time, though it is often mistakenly believed to have been imported into Europe by Gypsies. While originally (and still in some places) used for the game of Tarocchi, the Tarot deck today is more often used for cartomancy and other occult practices. This probably came about in the 1780s, when occult philosophers mistakenly associated the symbols on Tarot cards with Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The four suits (hearts, diamonds, spades, clubs) now used in most of the world originated in France, approximately in 1480. The trèfle, so named for its resemblance to the trefoil leaf, was probably copied from the acorn; the pique similarly from the leaf of the German suits, while its name derived from the sword of the Italian suits. It is not derived from its resemblance to a pike head, as commonly supposed. In England the French suits were used, and are named hearts, clubs (corresponding to trèfle, the French symbol being joined to the Italian name, bastoni), spades (corresponding to the French pique, but having the Italian name, spade=sword) and diamonds. This confusion of names and symbols is accounted for by Chatto thus:

"If cards were actually known in Italy and Spain in the latter part of the 14th century, it is not unlikely that the game was introduced into this country by some of the English soldiers who had served under Hawkwood and other free captains in the wars of Italy and Spain. However this may be, it seems certain that the earliest cards commonly used in this country were of the same kind, with respect to the marks of the suits, as those used in Italy and Spain."
Court cards have likewise undergone some changes in design and name. Early court cards were elaborate full-length figures; the French in particular often gave them the names of particular heroes and heroines from history and fable. A prolific manufacturing center in the 1500s was Rouen, which originated many of the basic design elements of court cards still present in modern decks. It is likely that the Rouennais cards were popular imports in England, establishing their design as standard there, though other designs became more popular in Europe (particularly in France, where the Parisian design became standard).

Rouen courts are traditionally named as follows: the kings of spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs are David, Alexander, (Julius) Caesar, and Charles (Charlemagne), respectively. The knaves (or "jacks"; French "valet") are Hector (prince of Troy), La Hire (comrade-in-arms to Joan of Arc), Ogier (a knight of Charlemagne), and Judas Maccabee (who led the Jewish rebellion against the Syrians). The queens are Pallas (warrior goddess; equivalent to the Greek Athena or Roman minerva), Rachel (biblical mother of Joseph), Argine (the origin of which is obscure), and Judith (of the Apocrypha). Parisian tradition uses the same names, but assigns them to different suits: the kings of spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs are are David, Charles, Caesar, and Alexander; the queens are Pallas, Judith, Rachel, and Argine; the knaves are Ogier, Le Hire, Hector, and Judas Maccabee. Oddly, the Parisian names have become more common in modern use, even with cards of Rouennais design.

Later Changes

In early games the kings were always the highest card in their suit. However, as early as the late 1400s special significance began to be placed on the nominally lowest card, now called the Ace, so that it sometimes became the highest card. This concept may have been hastened in the late 1700s by the French Revolution, where games began being played "ace high" as a symbol of lower classes raising in power above the royalty. The term "Ace" itself comes from a dicing term in Anglo-Normal French, which is itself derived from the Latin as (the smallest unit of coinage). Another dicing term, trey (3), sometimes shows up in playing card games.

Corner and edge indices appeared in the mid-1800s, which enabled people to hold their cards close together in a fan with one hand (instead of the two hands previously used). Before this time, the lowest court card in English cards was officially termed the Knave, but its abbreviation ("Kn") was too similar to the King ("K"). However, from the 1600s on the Knave had often been termed the Jack, a term borrowed from the game All Fours where the Knave of trumps is termed the Jack. All Fours was considered a low-class game, so the use of the term Jack at one time was considered vulgar. The use of indices changed the formal name of the lowest court card to Jack.

This was followed by the innovation of reversible court cards. Reversible court cards meant that players would not be tempted to make upside-down court cards right side up. Before this, other players could often get a hint of what other player's hands contained by watching them reverse their cards. This innovation required abandoning some of the design elements of the earlier full-length courts.

The Joker was an American innovation. Created for the Alsatian game of Euchre, it then spread to Europe from America along with the spread of Poker. Although the Joker card often bears the image of a fool, which is one of the images of the Tarot deck, it is not believed that there is any relation.

Card Game Rules and Hoyle

Most card games simply do not have universally accepted official rules (Contract bridge being one of a few notable exceptions). Instead, there are many rule books that attempt to capture rules (and common variations) as practiced by at least some people they have interviewed. When moving from one group to another, the rules will often change, so it is wise for any group to be sure they understand the rules they'll use before beginning.

In the 1740s Edmond Hoyle determined that, since so many people were interested in learning to play the card game Whist well, he would become a professional Whist tutor. Along with personal instruction, he also wrote down his basic approaches to playing Whist well in a small book which his clients could buy. The book was popular but unaffordable to many, so many illegal or questionable copies were made. In November 1742 Hoyle copyrighted the work, and made the work more widely available; copies of the book were extremely popular. Hoyle never actually wrote down the rules of Whist; he presumed that his reader already knew the basic rules, and his work was focused on teaching how to play it well. Observing his own success, Hoyle immediately wrote books on other subjects (Backgammon, Piquet, Chess, and Brag). Hoyle died on August 29, 1769.

Hoyle's works began the idea of selling popular game books. Many of these books contain the word "Hoyle" (just as many dictionaries contain the word "Webster"), but Hoyle would not recognize most of the games described in today's books. In particular, having the world "Hoyle" in a title does not give a book any greater authority, since anyone can write a book with Hoyle's name in the title.

Playing Cards Today

The primary playing cards in use today, called Anglo-American playing cards, includes the English suits, reversible Rouennais court cards, and usually two Jokers (often distinguishable, with one being more colorful than the other). The fanciful design and manufacturer's logo often displayed on the ace of spades began under the reign of James I of England, who passed a law requiring an insignia on that card as proof of payment of a tax on local manufacture of cards.

Though specific design elements of the court cards are rarely used in game play, a few are notable: the jack of spades and jack of hearts are drawn in profile, while the rest of the courts are shown in full face, leading to the former being called the "one-eyed" jacks. The king of hearts is shown with a broadsword behind his head, leading to the name "suicide king".

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Card

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CARD

EnglishCertificate of amortized revolving debtN/A
CADEnglishCard accepting deviceFinance

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Card

Synonyms: batting order (n), bill (n), bill of fare (n), board (n), calling card (n), carte (n), carte du jour (n), circuit board (n), circuit card (n), identity card (n), lineup (n), menu (n), notice (n), placard (n), poster (n), posting (n), scorecard (n), visiting card (n), wag (n), wit (n), tease (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Card

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Arrangement

Methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix. unravel, disentangle, ravel, card; disembroil; feaze.

Correspondence

Noun: correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty, letter card, picture post card; postal, card; despatch; dispatch; bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription; post; (messenger).

Indication

Badge, criterion; countercheck, countermark, countersign, counterfoil; duplicate, tally; label, ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop; dib; totem; tessera, card, bill; witness, voucher; stamp; cacher; trade mark, Hall mark.

Plan

Forecast, program(me), prospectus; carte du pays; card; bill, protocol; order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare; (food); base of operations; platform, plank, slate, ticket.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Card

English words defined with "card": bank card, baseball card, birthday card, borrower's card, Business card ♦ Card clothing, card player, Card rack, cash card, charge card, Christmas card, Coat card, Compass card, Court card, credit card ♦ drawing card ♦ Easter card ♦ flash card ♦ get-well card, green card, greeting card ♦ hole card, Hollerith card ♦ identity card, Indicator card ♦ King card ♦ library card ♦ membership card ♦ Pattern card, playing card, Post card, Postal card, punch card, punched card ♦ ration card ♦ Sea card, show card, sympathy card ♦ To make a card, To speak by the card, trading card, trump card ♦ union card. (references)
Specialty definitions using "card": aperture card ♦ Batten card, body-punched aspect card, border-punched card ♦ CARD CHANGER, JACQUARD LOOM, CARD CUTTER, JACQUARD, card duplicator, card face, card grader, card hanger, card hopper, card processing clerk, card punch, card reader, card reproducer, card reproducing punch, card walloper, card waste, clock card, clock card with direct substraction recording, clocking-in card, coincidence hole card, Cool Card, COURT CARD, CREDIT CARD CONTROL CLERK ♦ debit card ♦ edge-notched card, edge-punched card, EDITOR, GREETING CARD, European Card for Substantially Handicapped Persons, expansion card ♦ gold card, Grace's Card, graphics card ♦ image card, integrated circuit card, intermediate card ♦ lace card, LEC card, load card ♦ margin-punched card, multi-purpose prepaid card ♦ network card, network interface card, ninety-column card ♦ Oracle Card ♦ PC Card, PCI Mezzanine Card, peek-a-boo card, peephole card, peep-hole card, Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, punched paperboard card, purchased credit card relationships ♦ Queer Card ♦ REPAIRER, PROBE TEST CARD, SEMICONDUCTOR WAFERS ♦ SCIP card, serial communications interface peripheral card, short card, signature card, smart card, sound card ♦ tabulating card, tall card, time card ♦ USB Adapter Card Support ♦ ventilator card, verge-perforated card, video card ♦ wild card ♦ yellow card. (references)
Etymologies containing "card": Spadille. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Card" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (card), Tagalog (card).

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Modern Usage: Card

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Please insert your stolen card now. (Terminator 2: Judgment Day; writing credit: James Cameron; William Wisher Jr.)

Do you have a credit card or any luggage (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis)

You're a real card, Reede (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

He told me to forcibly insert the lifeline exercise card into my anus (Donnie Darko; writing credit: Richard Kelly)

Aaaaaaaahh! If you think it over, let me know. You've got the card, I'm not in the book you know (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright)

Lyrics

Now you've been maxing out my card card ("Bills, Bills, Bills"; performing artist: Destiny's Child)

Sometimes you would send me a birthday card (Father Of Mine; performing artist: Everclear)

Keep punching my card (Footloose; performing artist: Kenny Loggins)

Ran up my card for carrying raw loads (Got Your Money; performing artist: Ol' Dirty Bastard)

Wild card up my sleeve (Gloria; performing artist: Patti Smith)

Clever

Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with. (references; author: unknown)

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. (references; author: unknown)

A poor report card has one good thing in its favor: at least you know the student is not cheating. (references; author: unknown)

You're trailer trash when you need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

5 Card Stud (1968)

660124: The Story of an IBM Card (1961)

The Card (1952)

Card of Destiny (1928)

The Last Card (1926)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Card

DomainTitle

References

  • American Card Technology, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Oberthur Card Systems: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Kookmin Credit Card: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • LSI Card Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Mycal Card Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • 101 Best Family Card Games (reference)

  • Easy Card Tricks (reference)

  • Hoyle's Modern Encyclopedia of Card Games; Rules of All the Basic Games and Popular Variations,: Rules of All the Basic Games and Popular Variations (reference)

  • Orson Scott Card Shadow Two-Book Set: Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon (reference)

  • Yu-Gi-Oh! A Guide to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

  • Lenox Butler's Pantry "At Your Service" Place Card Holders (reference)

  • Lenox Monticello Thomas Jefferson Flower Basket Place Card Holder (Set of 4) (reference)

  • Lifestream LSP3300 Smartcard Personal Health Card for LSP3100 Cholesterol Monitor (reference)

  • Saint Hilaire Pineapple Place Card Holder (Set of 6) (reference)

  • Swiss Army Swiss Card, Translucent Ruby (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Card

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Photo Album: Card

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Looking like a colorful holiday card, this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a ... Credit: NASA.

NOAA Aircraft Operations Christmas Card entry for MacDill AFB contest. The painter is Damon Sans Souci. The NOAA entry won first place. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

A look at the new Defense Department common access card. With an 32 kilobyte embedded computer chip, magnetic stripe and two bar codes, the "Smart Card" will eventually replace the standard military identification card. (File photo).

Adopter, Kristen O'Vali, with "Caesar Don't Care" a trading card horse at Longview, Washington adoption and horse show. Credit: Mark Armstrong.

Individual card of information ... accompanies the blood sample. / [WHO photo]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Istituto superiore di sanita, Italy : [Library: Card catalog and display cases]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Dressed with flags, in the Pei-Ho River, Tientsin, China, in about 1902. Photo printed on a stereograph card, copyrighted in 1902 by C.H. Graves, Philadelphia, Pa. Credit: NAVY.

Four monitors laid up in the Anacostia River, off the Washington Navy Yard, circa 1866. Ships are (from left to right): USS Mahopac, USS Saugus, USS Montauk (probably); and either USS Casco or USS Chimo. Photo mounted on a stereograph card, marked: "Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N.H.". Credit: NAVY.

The last card. Tip overthrown. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dottie and Lottie. Lottie and Dottie talking by a card table, man talking to woman with dog, and seated couple. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Card
 

"Business Card Exchange" by Jay Goodman
Commentary: "Business Card Exchange."		"Smart Media Card" by Albert Gouws
Commentary: "Nice close up pic of a smart media card."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Card

AuthorQuotation

Alexander Pope

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

John Dryden

He's a sure card.

Steven Wright

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, "Wish you were here."

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Card

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

The Professor referred to a card he held in his hand

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Yeah, I work out how it can best be done, right, but it always works out. It's like having a Galacticredit card which keeps on working though you never send off the cheques

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Now, for example, I wanted To have my girls learn the trade of making card boxes

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Some weeks Jack Lawton got the card for first and some weeks he got the card for first

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Card

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

It will show "Hospital Part A" on the lower left corner of the card. (references)

If you are not sure you have Part A, look on your red, white, and blue Medicare card. (references)

With an application stick, a dab of a stool specimen is smeared on a chemically treated card, which is tested in a laboratory for evidence of blood. (references)

Business

The health card validity period is one year. (references)

The charge card segment is growing steadily. (references)

ST provides a global prepaid card for travelers. (references)

Children

Greece

During the year, the Ministry of Education reported that the illiteracy rate was dropping among Roma children: The school enrollment rate of Romani children increased by 17 percent, and the dropout rate decreased to 75 percent as a consequence of an identity card system, set up by the Ministry, which allows students to change schools more easily as their parents move. (references)

Civil Liberties

Greece

A new application is required to extend the card for an additional year. (references)

Greece

Legislation provides for the green card program to remain in effect until the end of the year. (references)

Economic History

Haiti

Transient and resident traders must also have a professional ID card. (references)

Georgia

This information, stated on a registration card, is subject to publication. (references)

Romania

Cyber Crime: Romania has one of the highest cases of internet credit card fraud. (references)

Human Rights

Tunisia

Police may stop anyone at anytime and ask for their identity card. (references)

Venezuela

Before Ferrer could stand up to provide his identification card, a Guard member beat him. (references)

Tunisia

Confiscation of an identity card makes nearly every aspect of civil and administrative life difficult. (references)

Indigenous People

Peru

Many indigenous persons lack basic documents such as a birth certificate or a voter's registration card that normally would identify them as full citizens and enable them to play an active part in society. (references)

Minorities

Rwanda

It eliminated references to ethnic origin from the national identity card. (references)

Indonesia

Authorities no longer are required to note a special code on the national identification card for citizens of Chinese extraction. (references)

Political Economy

CANADA

The purpose of lending branches is to provide new sources of funds to businesses and credit card users. (references)

HAITI

Efforts were also made to identify and register all taxpayers through the issuance of a citizen taxpayer ID card. (references)

Sudan

Movement generally was unhindered for other citizens outside the war zones, but travelers who failed to produce an identity card at checkpoints risked arrest. (references)

Political Rights

Senegal

ONEL also noted that national identity card applications were processed illegally in some instances. (references)

Cameroon

At polling places on election day, registered citizens receive a package containing one card for each candidate. (references)

Mauritania

Each citizen votes by entering a booth where they place the card of their candidate of choice into a sealed envelope. (references)

Trade

Dominican Rep

Besides, payment through credit card for business purchases is common. (references)

Armenia

The Armenian Card is enrolled in the Europay International payment system. (references)

Czech Rep

On shipments under US$2,000, consider asking the buyer to pay by credit card. (references)

Travel

Argentina

So, be sure to bring an ATM card. (references)

Honduras

The residence card must be renewed every year. (references)

Lebanon

Payment by check or credit card is possible nearly everywhere. (references)

Women

Singapore

Prostitutes are required to undergo periodic health checks and to carry a health card. (references)

Nicaragua

Corinto is unusual in that prostitutes receive medical examinations and a card certifying their health if they are free of disease. (references)

Poland

In 1998 the police, in cooperation with the State Agency for Solving Alcoholic Problems, introduced the "blue card," a record-keeping system designed to better document incidents of spousal abuse. (references)

Worker Rights

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

The law sets the minimum working age at 16 years of age, although a worker must be 18 years of age to receive a national insurance card. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Card

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

Zip in, slide the card, pump the gas and go.

Mark Shields

Mr. Card, in the first week of October President Bush became the first Republican president to declare in favor and support of a free Palestinian state.

Rush Limbaugh

Meanwhile, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card says the president won't veto legislation setting up the department if it expands government.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Card

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001We've also taken the first steps to protect the privacy of bank and credit card records and other financial statements.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Card

"Card" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.98% of the time. "Card" is used about 5,716 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.98%5,7151,715
Unclassified Items0.02%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5,716N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Card

The following table summarizes the usage of "card" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
CardLast name4,0003,129
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Card

CountryNameCountryName
France

Oberthur Card Systems

Japan

LSI Card Corporation

South Korea

Kookmin Credit Card

USA

American Card Technology, Inc.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Card

Expressions using "card": a card up one's sleeve ♦ a safe card ♦ aperture card ♦ bank card ♦ banker's card ♦ baseball card ♦ Batten card ♦ birthday card ♦ boarding card ♦ borrower's card ♦ box card ♦ business card ♦ by the card ♦ calling card ♦ card accepting device ♦ Card basket ♦ card catalog ♦ card catalogue ♦ Card clothing ♦ card deck ♦ card duplicator ♦ card face ♦ card file ♦ card game ♦ card games ♦ card hopper ♦ card index ♦ card of admission ♦ Card of reetry ♦ card out ♦ card pack ♦ card player ♦ card punch ♦ Card rack ♦ card reader ♦ card reproducer ♦ card reproducing punch ♦ card room ♦ card sharper ♦ card sorter ♦ card sorting ♦ card stacker ♦ card stocker ♦ card strip ♦ card stripping ♦ card table ♦ card throat ♦ card trick ♦ card vote ♦ card walloper ♦ card waste ♦ card wreck ♦ cash card ♦ charge card ♦ charge the card ♦ charging card ♦ cheque card ♦ christmas card ♦ circuit card ♦ clock card ♦ clock card with direct substraction recording ♦ Coat card ♦ coincidence hole card ♦ combing card ♦ compass card ♦ Cooling card ♦ correspondence card ♦ court card ♦ credit card ♦ data card ♦ debit card ♦ discount card ♦ donor card ♦ draft card ♦ drawing card ♦ Easter card ♦ embarkation card ♦ entrance card ♦ European Card for Substantially Handicapped Persons ♦ expansion card ♦ face card ♦ filing card ♦ flash card ♦ gaming card ♦ gold card ♦ graphic card ♦ graphics card ♦ green card ♦ greeting card ♦ greetings card ♦ hole card ♦ Hollerith card ♦ i.d. card ♦ I/O serial interface card ♦ id card ♦ identification card ♦ identity card ♦ idiot card ♦ image card ♦ index card ♦ Indicator card. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "card": card-based, card-basket, card-bearing, card-board, card-buying, card-carrying, card-carrying member, card-dropping, card-file, card-games, card-holder, card-holders, card-index, card-indexed, card-indexes, card-indexing, card-issuer, card-issuers, card-like, card-load, card-maker, card-player, card-players, card-playing, card-programmed, card-puncher, card-reader, card-readers, card-saving, card-sharp, card-sharper, card-sharping, card-sharps, card-shops, card-size, card-sized, card-sorting, card-style, card-table, card-wired.

Ending with "card": beat-card, business-card, calling-card, cash-card, credit-card, debit-card, identity-card, post-card, red-card, warrant-card, wild-card, work-card.

Containing "card": credit-card-style, four-card monte, three-card monte.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Card

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

greeting card

50,397

email card

3,887

credit card

27,191

post card

3,534

free e card

22,734

adult card

3,472

card

21,070

phone card

3,328

free greeting card

21,001

card trick

3,296

birthday card

17,839

baseball card

3,292

father day card

14,361

sound card

3,130

card game

12,584

printable father day card

3,101

business card

9,929

free email card

3,054

discover card

8,671

calling card

3,040

yu gi oh card

7,885

printable card

2,976

yugioh card

7,349

online greeting card

2,942

electronic greeting card

6,494

thank you card

2,918

free card

6,248

credit card bank

2,816

free birthday card

5,481

free business card

2,767

blue mountain card

5,112

free father day card

2,753

video card

5,013

pokemon card

2,599

master card

4,523

social security card

2,549

hallmark card

4,133

secured credit card

2,513

printable greeting card

4,110

love card

2,511
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Card

Language Translations for "card"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

kredietkaart (credit, credit card). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

kartë (carte, charter, paper, pass). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

تذكرة (message, ticket), بطاقة (ticket), ‏كرت الإشتراك, ‏ممشطة للصوف, ‏مشط (clip, coif the hair, coiffure the hair, comb, do the hair, do up the hair, dress, reed, scour, style the hair, tease), ‏قائمة الطعام (menu), ‏ورق لعب, ‏خريطة (carte, chart, map, plan), ‏شخص مضحك (screamer), ‏دون على بطاقة, ‏بطاقة (check, mark, name plate, tag, ticket), ‏باع بكروت الإئتمان, ‏برنامج (agenda, bill, emission, plan, platform, program, programme, schedule, scheme). (various references)

   

Asturian

  

les notes (report card). (various references)

   

Basque

  

txartel (ticket). (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

kaahtsá'tsis (playing card). (various references)

   

Breton

  

c'hartenn-vank (credit card), gartenn-vank-mañ (this credit card). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разчепквам (pick, pick out, tease), чепкало, циферблат на компас, фиш (coupon, file-card), тип (dude, exemplar, exponent, fellow, joker, josser, party, person, phylum, specimen, stripe, style, type), карта (map, sheet), картичка, карда, кардирам (raise, tease, teasel), особняк (crank, erratic, freak, oddity, original), обявление (announcement, insertion, notice, notification, ticket), желязна четка, програма (line up, platform, playbill, program, programme, prospectus, routine, schedule, scheme, show, timetable). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

targeta. (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

talaan sa grado (report card). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

卡片 . (various references)

   

Croatian

  

kartu (ticket), karticom. (various references)

   

Czech

  

pohlednice (picture card, picture postcard, postcard), karta (carte). (various references)

   

Danish

  

kort (brief, short), karton (cardboard), kartemaskine (tenterhook willey, tenterhook willow), karte (willey), hulkort (punch card, punch cards, punched card, punched cards, tabulating card). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kaart (filing card, map, menu, slip). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

karto (map, menu), kardi. (various references)

   

Estonian

  

krediitkaardiga (credit card, with a credit card). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

kort (cards, map, menu). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پنبه زنی , مقوا (Cardboard, Carton), ماشین پرداخت پارچه , کارت ویزیت (Pasteboard), کارت تبریک , کارت عضویت , گنجفه , ورق بازی کردن , ورق بازی (Pasteboard), ورق (Leaf, Sheet), بلیط (Pass, Ticket), برگ (Folio, Leaf, Page, Tab). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kortti (map, menu, rationing-card), karsta (crust, soot). (various references)

   

Flemish

  

kredietkaart (credit card). (various references)

   

French

  

carte (playing card), fiche (card index, filing card, record cart), carde. (various references)

   

French Canadian

  

carte. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

kaart (map, menu). (various references)

   

Galician

  

tarxeta. (various references)

   

German

  

Karte (bill, cart, chart, coupon, map, menu, note, ticket), zettel (ballot paper, chit, coupon, docket, form, handbill, handout, label, leaflet, map, memo, menu, note, notice, paper, piece of paper, receipt, slip, slip of paper, ticket), karton (box, cardboard, cardboards, carton, cartoon, packboard, pasteboard). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κάρτα (postcard). (various references)

   

Haitian Creole

  

kat (four). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לסרוק (comb, lacerate, scan, scour, scratch, search), קלף (parchment), כרטיס (ticket), גלויה (postcard). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kártya (broads, cards, devil's books, devil's picturebooks, playing card). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

greiðslukort (credit card). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kartu, kapas (cotton, wool), gacokan (boyfriend, girlfriend, preferred marble), gacok (the marble). (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

ilinniarutigijammut nalunaiqsimajut (report card). (various references)

   

Irish

  

chárta, cÚrta (map, menu), cárta, gcárta. (various references)

   

Italian

  

carta (chart, charter, document, map, menu, paper), scheda (file card, form, record card). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

札 (charm, label, note, paper money, talisman, ticket, token), カーソル強調 (car chase, car train, card loan, card system, cardigan, cardinal, cart, carton, cartoon, cartridge, curd, cursored emphasis, curtain, curtain antenna, curtain call, curtain lecture, curtain wall, passenger and freight train), カルデラ湖 (caldera lake, calvados, cult). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふだ (charm, label, talisman, ticket, token), カード (curd), カルト (cult). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

표 (CARDS, mark, Marks, Tabular, ticket). (various references)

   

Luxembourgish

  

kreditkaart (credit card). (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

ucilisna kniska (report card). (various references)

   

Manx

  

screeu er caartyn, kaartey, kaart (charter, quart), caartey (carding, comb, combing, curry, spoil), caart (playing card, quart). (various references)

   

Maori

  

kaari. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

kart (map, menu). (various references)

   

Papago

  

mohnthikud (playing card). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

karta (letter, map, menu), karchi (map, menu). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ardcay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cartão (cardboard, carton, copyist, map, menu, millboard, paperboard, pasteboard, scribble, ticket), ficha (counter, filing card, poker chip, record, slip, token). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

cartão. (various references)

   

Provencal

  

fuèlh de nòtas (report card). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cartelã (ration book), carda (comb), carnet (book, minute book, note book, notebook), carte (book, deed, letter, playing card, schooling, syndicate), carte de joc (pasteboard), carte poştalã (postal card, postcard), carte de vizitã (calling card, pasteboard), darac (carding comb, hackle, Reed, woolcard), dãrãci (comb, hackle), tip (bird, bloke, cast, category, chap, character, cove, cuss, customer, design, devil, fellow, guy, Johnny, joker, kidney, letter, make, merchant, model, norm, sort, soul, specimen, standard, symbol, type), fişã (check, coin, counter, hob), agendã (agenda, case book, notebook, pocket book), meniu (menu), ragilã (dog collar), scãrmãna (teasel, whack), tichet (ticket), buletin de identitate, bilet (bill, billet, note, pasteboard, seat, slip, ticket). (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

igipapuro camanota (report card). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

карта (chart, map, menu). (various references)

   

Samoan

  

lipoti aoga (report card). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

cairt (a card, a cart, bark, cart, chart, cleanse). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poštanska karta, karta (carte, map, ticket), grebenati (ripple), greben (comb, crag, crest, mull, overfall, reef, ridge, ripple, skerry), čestitka (congratulation, felicitation). (various references)

   

Slovene

  

kartico. (various references)

   

Somali

  

kaadhka. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tarjeta (charging card, map, menu, postcard), carda (comb, teasel, Teazle). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

karta (map, menu). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

kadi. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kort (brief, briefly, cards, curt, devil's books, fly-by-night, map, menu, photo, photograph, short, shortly, snapshot, view), spelkort (playing card), karda (comb, knead, tease, teasel, teazel, Teazle). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

card. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ใบปลิว เครื่องฉายหรือม้วนกระดาษยาวที่เขียนบทพูด (สำหรับผู้ดำเนินรายการ ผู้แสดงหรือแขกรั (idiot card), ไพ่ชนิดหนึ่ง (face card), บัตรประชาชน (identity card). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kart (dry, greeting card, map, menu, old, pasteboard, postcard, weazened, wizen, wizened). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kartoзka (r). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

гра в карти, програма (bill, catalogue, program, programme, syllabus), прочісувати, публікація (publication), анонс (advertisement, announcement, preview), запрошення (bid, calling, engagement, invitation, invite), меню (carte, menu), наклеювати на картки, прикріпляти ярлики, виписувати на картку, ярлик (check, label, tag, ticket), карти, карта (carte, map), карта вин (carte), картка, картушка компаса, квиток (ticket), формуляр, чесати (comb, hackle, ripple), оголошення в газеті. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chịu thua không chơi nữa, có lẽ lý lẽ vững nhất, có kế dự phòng có tất cả bài chủ trong tay, các, thiếp, thẻ quân bài, thằng cha (cove, feller, fellow, person), thế là phải bỏ cuộc, thế là đúng, gã còn nắm bài chủ trong tay, bàn chải len, bàn cúi. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cribo (comb), cerdyn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Card

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

khartes. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

carere, cari, carioth, caris, carmina, carmonii, caro, carrere, carri, charram, charta, enam, pecto. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

charte. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Card

Derivations

Words beginning with "card": cardamom, cardamoms, cardamon, cardamons, cardamum, cardamums, cardboard, cardboards, cardcase, cardcases, carded, carder, carders, cardholder, cardholders, cardia, cardiac, cardiacs, cardiae, cardias, cardigan, cardigans, cardinal, cardinalate, cardinalates, cardinalities, cardinality, cardinally, cardinals, cardinalship, cardinalships, carding, cardings, cardiogenic, cardiogram, cardiograms, cardiograph, cardiographic, cardiographies, cardiographs, cardiography, cardioid, cardioids, cardiological, cardiologies, cardiologist, cardiologists, cardiology, cardiomyopathies, cardiomyopathy, cardiopathies. (additional references)

Words ending with "card": bankcard, discard, filmcard, flancard, flashcard, keycard, placard, postcard, scorecard, timecard, undercard. (additional references)

Words containing "card": angiocardiographic, angiocardiographies, angiocardiography, bankcards, bradycardia, bradycardias, discardable, discarded, discarder, discarders, discarding, discards, echocardiogram, echocardiograms, echocardiographer, echocardiographers, echocardiographic, echocardiographies, echocardiography, electrocardiogram, electrocardiograms, electrocardiograph, electrocardiographic, electrocardiographically, electrocardiographies, electrocardiographs, electrocardiography, encephalomyocarditis, encephalomyocarditises, endocardia, endocardial, endocarditis, endocarditises, endocardium, epicardia, epicardial, epicardium, filmcards, flancards, flashcards, incardination, incardinations, intracardiac, intracardial, intracardially, keycards, myocardia, myocardial, myocarditis, myocarditises, myocardium. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Card" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aard, Acard, caad, caald, Cacdp, cadry, Cagd, cagr, Caid, cand, canrd, capd, cara, carb, Carc, cardd, carde, cardi, Cardri, cari, Caridi, carj, carld, carn, carod, carq, cartd, caru, carv, Carw, casdn, caud, caur, cawd, cayd, Ccaod, cearid, Cerddi, cerod, cird, clard, coard, crad, cragd, crawd, crd, Crda, csr, cxr, cyard, iard, jard, kard, karde, kardi, kerd, Qadr, rard, vard, zard. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Card"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "card" (pronounced kÄ"rd)
4k Ä" r ddiscard, scarred.
3-Ä" r dbard, barred, bombard, canard, Chard, charred, disbarred, jarred, lard, disregard, Gabbard, guard, hard, marred, nard, regard, retard, shard, sparred, starred, sward, tarred, yard.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Card

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-r"

-1 letter: arc, cad, car, rad.

-2 letters: ad, ar.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-r"
 

+1 letter: acred, acrid, arced, cadre, caird, cards, cared, cedar, chard, daric, raced.

 

+2 letters: acarid, accord, arcade, arched, arcked, bardic, braced, cadger, cadres, cairds, canard, candor, carded, carder, cardia, caried, carked, carped, carted, carved, cedarn, cedars, chadar, chador, chadri, chards, chared, coward, cradle, craned, craped, crated, craved, crazed, credal, dacker, dancer, darics, decare, drachm, echard, farced, graced, nacred, racked, rancid, reclad, redact, redcap, sacred, scared, traced.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art 		9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken 		13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Frequency
16. Names: Company Usage 		17. Expressions
18. Expressions: Internet
19. Translations: Modern
20. Translations: Ancient 		21. Abbreviations
22. Acronyms
23. Derivations
24. Rhymes 		25. Anagrams
26. Bibliography


  

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