| card 1 (kärd) n. 1. A flat, usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, cardboard, or plastic, especially: a. One of a set or pack bearing significant numbers, symbols, or figures, used in games and in divination. b. A greeting card. c. A post card. d. One bearing a person's name and other information, used for purposes of identification or classification. e. One bearing the image and often the statistics of a sports figure. f. A business card. g. A credit card. h. A magnetic card. i. One used for recording information in a file: an index card; a recipe card. 2. cards (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Games a. A game played with cards. b. The playing of games with cards. 3. A program, especially for a sports event. 4. a. A menu, as in a restaurant. b. A wine list. 5. Computer Science a. A circuit board, especially for use in a computer. b. A punch card. 6. A compass card. 7. Informal An eccentrically amusing person. 8. a. Something, such as an advantageous circumstance or tactical maneuver, that can be used to help gain an objective. Often used with play: "[He believed that] Soviet Russia ... had far more Iranian cards to play than the United States" (Theodore Draper). b. An appeal to a specified issue or argument, usually one involving strong emotions. Often used with play: "His exposure as a racist ... allowed the defense to play the race card" (New York Times). tr.v. card·ed, card·ing, cards Phrasal Verbs: 1. To furnish with or attach to a card. 2. To list (something) on a card; catalog. 3. To check the identification of, especially in order to verify legal age. 4. Sports To warn or eject (a soccer player who has committed a flagrant foul) by showing a yellow card or a red card. card in To sign in, as at a place of business, by use of a magnetic card. card out Idioms: To sign out, as from a place of business, by use of a magnetic card. card up (one's) sleeve A secret resource or plan held in reserve: a tough negotiator who had a number of cards up his sleeve. in the cards Likely or certain to happen: My promotion to a higher position just isn't in the cards. put/lay (one's) cards on the table To make frank and clear revelation, as of one's motives or intentions. [Middle English carde, from Old French carte, from Latin charta, paper made from papyrus, from Greek khart  s.] |
| card 2 (kärd) n. 1. A wire-toothed brush or a machine fitted with rows of wire teeth, used to disentangle fibers, as of wool, prior to spinning. 2. A device used to raise the nap on a fabric. tr.v. card·ed, card·ing, cards To comb out or brush with a card. [Middle English carde, from Medieval Latin cardus, from Latin carduus, thistle.] card  er n. |
cards
Noun
1. any game played with cards, or card games generally
2. lay one's cards on the table to declare one's intentions openly
3. on the cards likely to take place: a military coup was on the cards
4. play one's cards right to handle a situation cleverly
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| Noun | 1. |  cards - a game played with playing cards discard - (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit discard - (cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit reshuffling, reshuffle - shuffling again; "the gambler demanded a reshuffle" game - a contest with rules to determine a winner; "you need four people to play this game" cutting, cut - the division of a deck of cards before dealing; "he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal"; "the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual" all fours, high-low-jack - card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game baccarat, chemin de fer - a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine beggar-my-neighbor, beggar-my-neighbour, strip-Jack-naked - a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards vingt-et-un, twenty-one, blackjack - a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21 bridge - any of various card games based on whist for four players cassino, casino - a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand cribbage, crib - a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two ecarte - a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high euchre, five hundred - a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand sevens, fantan, parliament - a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards faro - a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box Go Fish - a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards four-card monte, monte, three-card monte - a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time stops, Newmarket, boodle, Chicago, Michigan - a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card old maid - a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid') bezique, penuchle, pinochle, pinocle - a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist piquet - a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards pisha paysha - (Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child; the deck is place face down with one card face upward; players draw from the deck alternately hoping to build up or down from the open card; the player with the fewest cards when the deck is exhausted is the winner poker game, poker - any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand rouge et noir, trente-et-quarante - a card game in which two rows of cards are dealt and players can bet on the color of the cards or on which row will have a count nearer some number rum, rummy - a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards long whist, short whist, whist - a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six doubling, double - raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" deal - the act of distributing playing cards; "the deal was passed around the table clockwise" |
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