Word Finder - cards

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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.

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Material with embedded short wire bristles.

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

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A 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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to card a horse

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

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

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One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)

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Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.

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Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.

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(color) A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)

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Short for cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., zero, one, two, three). (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal number.)

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(grammar) Short for cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.

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Short for cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.

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Short for cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.

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(bow) A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.

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Mulled red wine.

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Card games

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He's a fan of cards.

She shuffled her cards.

We don't put all our cards on the table at once, either.

I wanted to get all our cards out on the table, so to speak.

Toni grinned, took his phone, and swapped SIM cards with the new one.

Noticing a deck of cards on the counter, she paused.

Dolokhov "killed," that is, beat, ten cards of Rostov's running.

While my relationship with Martha LeBlanc, nee Rossi, dated back to our play pen years and kindergarten days, lately we've hiked different paths, reducing our contact to Christmas cards and once a month phone calls.

I can get each of you two sets of ID, birth certificate, passport, driver's license, charge cards and a brief history that will check out.

The arguments that have been put forwarded in favor of ID Cards can be easily disproved.

We're a house of cards in a windstorm, held together by God knows what.

I knew from the start we were a house of cards in a windstorm, but you were the glue that held us together.

My pa used to play cards with Blackie Rowland.

I bought her one of those phone cards so she can call without Shipton knowing about it.

And I suppose Mother's day cards weren't available this time of year?

That's the one kiss you get for all nineteen cards.

I suggest we make a date to meet back here and lay our cards on the table.

They played everything from cards to Clue, and the conversation was dominated by childhood memories shared between Alex and Katie.

I just want to see your registration cards for March fourth.

Finally, he turned and reached beneath the counter and handed Dean a box containing hundreds of cards.

The cards probably ain't in order, but help yourself.

After ten minutes he had found 14 cards for March fourth.

It had up to this time been little more than the shuffling of cards, the ingenious arrangement of counters in a pretty pattern.

When selection is being made for several characters at the same time, and also in hybridization experiments, where it is important to have full records of the characters of individual plants and their progeny, " score cards," such as are used in judging stock, with a scale of points, are used.

The chief industry is stationery, particularly the printing of business cards.

He checked the room number and searched the cards until he found the occupants of the two adjoin­ing rooms.

There are 14 cards for the fourth of March.

I traded my trump cards, Sofi added.

The manufactures of Stralsund are more miscellaneous than extensive; they include machinery, playing cards, sugar, soap, cigars, gloves, furniture, paper, oil and beer.

When the Visconti dynasty ended by the dukes death in 1447, he pretended to espouse the cause of the Milanese republic, which was then re-established; but he played his cards so subtly as to make himself, by the help of Cosimo de Medici in Florence, duke de facto if not de jure.

Pamplona has a flourishing agricultural trade, besides manufactures of cloth, linen stuffs, flour, soap, leather, cards, paper, earthenware, iron and nails.

The influence of Newcastle and Sandwich, however, was too strong for him; he was thwarted and over-reached; and in 1748 he resigned the seals, and returned to cards and his books with the admirable composure which was one of his most striking characteristics.

From this great mass of details, soon represented in Paris by the collection of some ioo,000 cards, it was possible, proceeding by exhaustion, to sift and sort down the cards till a small bundle of half a dozen produced the combined facts of the measurements of the individual last sought.

The chief industries are brewing and art metal-working, also printing, metal-founding, and the manufacture of cloth, silk, tools and cards for wooldressing.

The local industries, chiefly developed since 1880, include the manufacture of cotton, linen, wool, ribbons, cloth, chocolate, soap, brandies, leather, cards and nails.

The usual object is to bring the cards into regular ascending or descending sequences.

In other varieties of Patience the object is to make pairs, which are then discarded, the game being brought to a successful conclusion when all the cards have been paired; or to pair cards which will together make certain numbers, and then discard as before.

Simultaneously, Gertz was negotiating with Cardinal Alberoni and with the whigs in England; but all his ingenious combinations collapsed like a house of cards on the sudden death of Charles XII.

His formal training at Angers was altogether too slight to account for his great technical knowledge; no record, however, exists of the stages by which this was acquired except that as soon as he landed in India he began to devote fixed hours to study, giving up cards and the violin.

Short fibre silks are still put through cards and treated like cotton; but the value of silk is in its lustre, elasticity and strength, which characteristics are obtained by keeping fibres as long as possible.

The introduction of powerful engines causing serious vibration to compass cards of the admiralty type, coupled with the prevailing desire for larger cards, the deviation of which could also be more conveniently compensated, led to the gradual introduction of the Thomson compass.

The north point, indicated in some of the oldest compass cards with a broad arrow-head or a spear, as well as with a T for Tramontano, gradually developed by a combination of these, about 1492, into a fleur de lis, still universal.

In December 1529 he preached his two " sermons on the cards," which awakened a turbulent controversy in the university, and his opponents, finding that they were unable to cope with the dexterity and keenness of his satire, would undoubtedly have succeeded in getting him silenced by force, had it not been reported to the king that Latimer " favoured his cause," that is, the cause of the divorce.

During the World War he issued, in 1915, an order barring unneutral envelopes and cards from the mails, and after America became a belligerent he instituted a censorship designed to suppress treasonable and seditious newspapers.

The Chinese prepare a rouge, said to be from safflower, which, spread on the cards on which it is sold, has a brilliant metallic green lustre, but when moistened and applied to the skin assumes a delicate carmine tint.

As Dean began to search the cards, a teenaged boy entered with a girl no more than 16 or 17 hanging on his arm.

Playing cards 400 18,950

The result was a re-shuffling of the cards.

Machinery, chemicals, sugar, malt, paper, musical instruments, cotton, straw hats, tobacco, carpets, soap, playing cards, chocolate and dye-stuffs are among the manufactures.

Technically one of these arts, that of line-engraving on copper, sprang from the craft of the goldsmith and metal-chaser; while that of woodengraving sprang from the craft of the printers of pattern-blocks and playing cards.

But Lauderdale had the skill to turn the cards on Middleton, accusing him of tricking both parliament and king, and of usurping royal prerogative.