Definition of Card

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Definition of Card

Card

A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.

A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

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

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

An indicator card. See under Indicator.

To play at cards; to game.

An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

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

To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.

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

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

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Card Quotations

Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.
Dennis Miller

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Ron Paul

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
Jim Carrey

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

Money is a poor man's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan

Money is just the poor man's credit card.
Marshall McLuhan

I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.
Robert Orben

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
Jesse Jackson

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Sandra Cisneros

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
Billie Jean King

Card Translations

card in Dutch is kaart
card in Finnish is kortti
card in German is Karte
card in Italian is carta di giuoco
card in Latin is pecto
card in Norwegian is kart
card in Spanish is tarjeta
card in Swedish is kort, spelkort

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