Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - card
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 thick stiff paper or thin pasteboard. 2 a a flat piece of this, esp. for writing or printing on. b = POSTCARD. c a card used to send greetings, issue an invitation, etc. (birthday card). d = visiting-card. e = business card. f a ticket of admission or membership. 3 a = PLAYING-CARD. b a similar card in a set designed for particular games, e.g. happy families. c (in pl.) card-playing; a card-game. 4 (in pl.) colloq. an employee's documents, esp. for tax and national insurance, held by the employer. 5 a a programme of events at a race-meeting etc. b Cricket a score-card. c a list of holes on a golf course, on which a player's scores are entered. 6 colloq. a person, esp. an odd or amusing one (what a card!; a knowing card). 7 a plan or expedient (sure card). 8 a printed or written notice, set of rules, etc., for display. 9 a small rectangular piece of plastic issued by a bank, building society, etc., with personal (often machine-readable) data on it, chiefly to obtain cash or credit (cheque card; credit card; do you have a card?). --v.tr. 1 fix to a card. 2 write on a card, esp. for indexing. Phrases and idioms ask for (or get) one's cards ask (or be told) to leave one's employment. card-carrying being a registered member of an organization, esp. a political party or trade union. card-game a game in which playing-cards are used. card index an index in which each item is entered on a separate card. card-index v.tr. make a card index of. card-playing the playing of card-games. card-sharp (or -sharper) a swindler at card-games. card-table a table for card-playing, esp. a folding one. card up one's sleeve a plan in reserve. card vote US a block vote, esp. in trade-union meetings. on (US in) the cards possible or likely. put (or lay) one's cards on the table reveal one's resources, intentions, etc. Etymology: ME f. OF carte f. L charta f. Gk khartes papyrus-leaf 2. n. & v. --n. a toothed instrument, wire brush, etc., for raising a nap on cloth or for disentangling fibres before spinning. --v.tr. brush, comb, cleanse, or scratch with a card. Phrases and idioms carding-wool short-stapled wool. Derivatives carder n. Etymology: ME f. OF carde f. Prov. carda f. cardar tease, comb, ult. f. L carere card
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I. transitive verb Date: 14th century to cleanse, disentangle, and collect together (as fibers) by the use of ~s preparatory to spinning, ~er noun II. noun see: chard Date: 15th century an instrument or machine for ~ing fibers that consists usually of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back, an implement for raising a nap on cloth, III. noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Anglo-French, alteration of Middle French carte, probably from Old Italian carta, literally, leaf of paper, from Latin charta leaf of papyrus, from Greek chartēs Date: 15th century playing ~, 2. plural but singular or plural in construction a game played with ~s, ~ playing, 3. something (as an advantage) compared to a valuable playing ~ in one's hand , an issue especially with emotional appeal that is brought into play to achieve a desired end (as winning a political campaign) , a usually clownishly amusing person ; wag , compass ~, 6. a flat stiff usually small and rectangular piece of material (as paper, ~board, or plastic) usually bearing information: as, post~, visiting ~, business ~, credit ~, one bearing a picture (as of a baseball player) on one side and usually statistical data on the other, one on which computer information is stored (as in the form of punched holes or magnetic encoding), one bearing electronic circuit components for insertion into a larger electronic device (as a computer), program, c. a wine list, menu, greeting ~ , IV. transitive verb Date: 1884 to place or fasten on or by means of a ~, to provide with a ~, to list or record on a ~, score , to ask for identification (as in a bar) , V. abbreviation ~inal ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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