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Meanings
noun
  • a piece of thick, stiff paper or thin pasteboard, in particular one used for writing or printing on.
    E.g. some notes jotted down on a card
  • a small rectangular piece of plastic containing personal data in a machine-readable form and used to obtain cash or credit or to pay for a phone call, gain entry to a room or building, etc.
    E.g. your card cannot be used to withdraw more than your daily limit from cash machines
  • a playing card.
    E.g. a pack of cards
  • short for expansion card.
  • documents relating to an employee, especially for tax and national insurance, held by the employer.
  • a programme of events at a race meeting.
    E.g. a nine-race card
  • a person regarded as odd or amusing.
    E.g. He laughed: ‘You're a card, you know’
verb
  • write (something) on a card, especially for indexing.
  • check the identity card of (someone), in particular as evidence of legal drinking age.
    E.g. we were carded at the entrance to the club
  • (of an amateur athlete) be in receipt of government funding to pursue training.
    E.g. in 1986–7 all carded athletes received a basic $450 monthly allowance
verb
  • comb and clean (raw wool, hemp fibres, or similar material) with a sharp-toothed instrument in order to disentangle the fibres before spinning.
    E.g. the wool from the sheep was carded and spun
noun
  • a toothed implement or machine for carding wool.
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Meanings
abbreviation
  • Cardinal.

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