card
Pronunciation: /kɑːd/
The English word “card” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- A playing card.
- Any game using playing cards; a card game.
- A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
- Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
- A bank card.
- Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
- 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.
- A map or chart.
- An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
- A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
- 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.
- A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
- Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
- A greeting card.
- A business card.
- 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.
- A test card.
- In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
- A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
- 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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