A Quick and Simple Dictionary

card

1. Noun.  A playing card.
2. Noun.  (context, in plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
3. Noun.  A resource or an argument, used to a achieve a purpose.
4. Noun.  Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
5. Noun.  (obsolete) A map or chart.
6. Noun.  (informal) An amusing but slightly foolish person.
7. Noun.  A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
8. Noun.  (cricket) 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.
9. Noun.  (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
10. Verb.  To check IDs at a venue with a minimum age requirement.
11. Noun.  (rare, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
12. Noun.  (textiles) 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.
13. Noun.  (rare, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
14. Verb.  (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
15. Verb.  To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.