Definition of Cards. Meaning of Cards. Synonyms of Cards

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Definition of Cards

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Card Card, v. t. 1. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse. These card the short comb the longer flakes. --Dyer. 2. To clean or clear, as if by using a card. [Obs.] This book [must] be carded and purged. --T. Shelton. 3. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. [Obs.] You card your beer, if you guests being to be drunk. -- half small, half strong. --Greene. Note: In the manufacture of wool, cotton, etc., the process of carding disentangles and collects together all the fibers, of whatever length, and thus differs from combing, in which the longer fibers only are collected, while the short straple is combed away. See Combing.
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Card Card, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Carded; p. pr. & vb. n. Carding.] To play at cards; to game. --Johnson.
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Card Card, n. [F. carde teasel, the head of a thistle, card, from L. carduus, cardus, thistle, fr. carere to card.] 1. 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. 2. A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines.

Meaning of Cards from wikipedia

- Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Card or The Card may refer to: Plastic cards of various types Bank card Credit card Debit card Payment card Playing card...
- German-suited pack of cards. Symbol: Active A card that is in play i.e. not sleeping. See active player. Active player A player who receives cards in the current...
- playing cards where all cards are of the same suit. There are different types of flush, including straight, where the flush is formed from a run of cards in...
- consisting of multiple playing cards, usually of the same rank. Depending on the game, a set may consist of two cards of equal rank (a "pair") as in Bieten...
- up house of cards in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A house of cards is a structure formed of playing cards, as a pastime. House of Cards may also refer...
- Zener cards are cards used to conduct experiments for extrasensory perception (ESP). Perceptual psychologist Karl Zener (1903–1964) designed the cards in...
- The CARDS programme, of Community ****istance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation, is the EU's main instrument of financial ****istance to...
- In card games, to cut the cards (also "cut the deck" or "cut the pack") is to split the deck into two packets by lifting one packet from the top and placing...
- known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play...
- magic tricks, cardistry, card throwing, and card houses; cards may also be collected. Playing cards are typically palm-sized for convenient handling, and...