Cardname

• 1

  A surname originating as an occupation for a carder of wool.

cardnoun詞源 1/kɑːd/

• 1

  A playing card.

  • As each card is played in blackjack, it changes the possibilities for both player and dealer by diminishing the number and the variety of cards that may be dealt.
• 2

  Any game using playing cards; a card game.

  • He played cards with his friends.
• 3

  A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)

  • The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
  • He accused them of playing the race 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).

  • Cashier: "Cash or card? Customer: "I'm paying on my phone, so card."
• 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.

  • Do you have any card? I want to make a poster.
• 8

  obsoleteA map or chart.

  • As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye […].

cardverb詞源 1/kɑːd/

• 1

  To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.

  • They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
  • I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.
• 2

  datedTo play cards.

  • For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.
• 3

  golfhobbieslifestyleTo make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

  • McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.

cardnoun詞源 2/kɑːd/

• 1

  datedMaterial with embedded short wire bristles.

• 2

  datedbusinessmanufacturingtextilesA comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.

• 3

  businessmanufacturingtextilesA hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.

• 4

  datedbusinessmanufacturingtextilesA machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

• 5

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

cardverb詞源 3/kɑːd/

• 1

  businessmanufacturingtextilesTo use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

  • "Isn't that true, Bertha? " asked the smith. "Yes, every word of it, my lad," said Mother Bertha, who was sitting near the hearth carding.
• 2

  To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.

• 3

  To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.

  • to card a horse
  • the carded wool, he says, Is smoothly lapp'd around those cylinders
• 4

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

  • It is necessary that this book carded and purged of certain base things.
• 5

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

  • that card your beer, if you see your guests begin to be drunk, half small and half strong

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• compass card
• report card
• cardinal
• chard