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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Wild card |
Sports & Leisure | Of a playing card: having a denomination determined by the will of the holder. Source: European Union. (references) |
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In sport, the term wild card refers to a team that qualifies for that sporting league's (association; etc.) playoffs that is one of several high achieving teams that did not obtain the best win-loss record in their specific subdivision (usually called a conference or division) of that sporting league. The number of wild card teams can vary depending on the rules of the particular sport league.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wild card."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Ace, king, queen, knave, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, trey, deuce; joker; trump, wild card. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Lyrics | Wild card up my sleeve (Gloria; performing artist: Patti Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | De Nattergale: CWC/Canal Wild Card (2002) CWC/Canal Wild Card (2001) | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wild card | 34 |
wild card bingo | 5 |
poker wild card | 3 |
club med wild card | 3 |
wild card poker rule | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "WILD CARD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | joker (joker, wildcard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | jokersigno, jokero. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | korvausmerkki (substitute character), jokeri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | joker, carte joker, carte frimée, carte blanche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stellvertretersymbol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | indifferenza (aloofness, disregard, indifference, insensibility, nonchalance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ildway ardcay непредсказуемый человек, непредсказуемое явление. (various references) comodín (joker, wildcard). (various references) jokertecken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-i-l-r-w" | |
-3 letters: acrid, alcid, caird, crawl, daric, drail, drawl, laird, liard, lidar. | |
-4 letters: acid, arid, aril, cadi, caid, card, carl, clad, claw, craw, dial, dirl, draw, laic, laid, lair, lard, lari, liar, lira, raid, rail, rial, wadi, wail, wair, ward, wild. | |
-5 letters: add, aid, ail, air, arc, awl, cad, car, caw, dad, dal, daw, did. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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