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

- Football League team nicknamed the "Cards" St. Louis Cardinals, a Major League Baseball team nicknamed the "Cards" Louisville Cardinals, the sports teams...
- for building card houses. Some types of cards such as tarot cards are also used for divination. Playing cards are typically palm-sized for convenient...
- House of Cards is an American political thriller web television series created by Beau Willimon. It is an adaptation of the 1990 BBC miniseries of the...
- Cards Against Humanity is a party game in which players complete fill-in-the-blank statements using words or phrases typically deemed as offensive, risqué...
- ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1 standard, the same size as ATM cards and other payment cards, such as debit cards. Credit cards have a printed or embossed bank card number...
- known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarock) is a pack of playing cards, used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play games...
- A house of cards is a structure formed of playing cards, as a pastime. House of Cards may also refer to: House of Cards (1917 film), a film by Alice Guy-Blaché...
- processing systems, used punched cards for data input, output, and storage. Many early digital computers used punched cards, often prepared using keypunch...
- instances, cash transactions. The development of debit cards, unlike credit cards and charge cards, has generally been country specific resulting in a number...
- A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is pla****, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card...
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