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card

Pronunciation: /kɑːd/

The English word “card” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A playing card.
  2. Any game using playing cards; a card game.
  3. A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
  4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
  5. A bank card.
  6. Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  15. A business card.
  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.
  20. A printed programme.

Etymology

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.

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