meaning of card
1. A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
2. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig. ), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
3. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariners compass.
4. A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
5. An indicator card. See under Indicator.
6. To play at cards; to game.
7. An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc. ; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.
8. A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
9. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.
10. To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
11. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
12. card 1. A circuit board. 2. A punched card. 3.
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