Word Finder - card

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A playing card.

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(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.

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He played cards with his friends.

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A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.

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He accused them of playing the race card.

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Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.

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A map or chart.

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An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.

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A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.

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What’s on the card for tonight?

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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.

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A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.

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He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.

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A greeting card.

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She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.

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A business card.

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The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.

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Title card / 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.

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A test card.

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A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.

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to put a card in the newspapers

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A printed programme.

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(by extension) An attraction or inducement.

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This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

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

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

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An indicator card.

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To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.

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I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.

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To play cards.

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

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

They sat on the bed, playing a card game.

Cynthia was seated with two other women at a card table in front of the Post Office when Dean arrived.

He dropped the bill on the counter, pocketed his card, and grabbed the garment bags.

He made a purchase using the card earlier, just to make sure there wasn't a stop order on it.

It looks like a Christmas card.

They had given Martha a telephone card and asked she contact them as soon and as often as she could.

The officer stared at her then held up an ID card with the boy's picture.

The beautiful woman pulled a card from her small purse and handed it to her.

Yes. It was a platinum card.

Inside the card was a letter from Connie.

The medics were talking about looking in his pockets for an organ donor card.

He then asked if he might use her telephone with his phone card.

He excused himself and asked the owner if he could make a phone card call and did so, but was unsuccessful in reaching Cynthia.

He probably had a charge card up and down Second Street!

The you in my heaven is the person I create in my mind, the perfect you, who never drinks his milk from the cereal bowl and remembers every birthday and holiday with the nicest card he buys the day before, and he sends roses for no reason at all....

Then, as if explaining her long distance telephone expenditure added, "She got a free phone card for listening to a time share pitch."

My brother is a wild card.

He didn't have a Texaco charge card and they don't take Visa or MasterCard," Hunter replied, and then added, "but I've driven that route.

Dean was down to 11 dollars and change, so he used his Visa card, holding his breath that it wasn't maxed-out while the clerk ran it through the recording machine.

He handed his Visa card back to the cashier.

Dean managed to hand her his business card but she seemed to dismiss it, with eyes only for the charming Fred O'Connor.

He might have just put that on the registra­tion card when he signed in.

The mica card is generally mounted on a brass framework, F F, with a brass cap, C, fitted with a sapphire centre and carrying four magnetized needles, N, N, N, N, as in fig.

She began to work delightedly and finished the card in a few minutes, and did it very neatly indeed.

His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another.

The card tables were drawn out, sets made up for boston, and the count's visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawing rooms, some in the sitting room, some in the library.

And strange to say Nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a card, putting a small stake on it, and beginning to play.

Rostov staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again lost.

He wrote "800 rubles" on a card, but while the waiter filled his glass he changed his mind and altered it to his usual stake of twenty rubles.

With a sinking heart he watched Dolokhov's hands and thought, "Now then, make haste and let me have this card and I'll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denisov, Natasha, and Sonya, and will certainly never touch a card again."

The seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack.

And before you ask, she's got her green card.

Groucho couldn't wait to leave and after a call-us-if-you-hear-anything speech, he handed out a business card to each of the Deans.

Dean wanted to ask what the card said but was far too civilized to ask.

Dean was knee-deep in a dream, trying to pull his Visa card away from Jeffrey Byrne, who was sitting on a cloud playing a harp, when his bedroom was suddenly filled with light.

Did you get her to send a copy of the registration card so we could check the signature?

Nope. I guess he misses out on a Christmas card this year.

Dean sent two dress shirts with neckties and a card of congratula­tions but did not attend the ceremony.

When she turned to him, he was pulling a card from his wallet.

Megan dug some coins and her calling card from her purse.

If I could get your driver's license and insurance card, I'll start the claims process, too, Laurie said.

His official duty is to mark the game on the scoring card when the leader announces the result.

He was assistant librarian of Harvard University from 1856 to 1872, and planned and perfected an alphabetical card catalogue, combining many of the advantages of the ordinary dictionary catalogues with the grouping of the minor topics under more general heads, which is characteristic of a systematic catalogue.

The whole of the record is independent of names, and the final identification is by means of the photograph which lies with the individual's card of measurements.

A card will show the influence of the couple N if projected with a spin in its plane, when it will be found to change its aspect in the air.

At that age he was apprenticed to a fuller and clothier, to card wool, and to dye and dress the cloth.

If a second card with a narrow slit in it is held in front of the first, the slit running from the centre outwards, the wave motion is still more evident.

The toothed wheel being set in motion, the edge of a card or of a funnel-shaped piece of common notepaper is held against the teeth, when a note will be heard arising from the rapidly succeeding displacements of the air in its vicinity.

A still simpler form of siren may be constituted with a good spinning-top, a perforated card disk, and a tube for blowing with.

He allowed a limited number of teeth on the arc of a circle to strike against a card.