card

card is a 4-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
4. noun. A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
5. noun. An indicator card. See under Indicator.
6. intransitive verb. To play at cards; to game.
7. noun. 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. noun. A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
9. transitive verb. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.
10. transitive verb. To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
11. transitive verb. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
12. noun. one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes

    "he collected cards and traded them with the other boys"

13. noun. a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities

    Synonyms: board

14. noun. a card certifying the identity of the bearer

    "he had to show his card to get in"

15. noun. (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat

    "the managers presented their cards to the umpire at home plate"

    Synonyms: lineup

16. noun. a list of dishes available at a restaurant

    "the menu was in French"

    Synonyms: carte, menu

17. noun. (golf) a record of scores (as in golf)

    "you have to turn in your card to get a handicap"

    Synonyms: scorecard

18. noun. a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures)

    "they sent us a card from Miami"

19. noun. a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
20. noun. a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement

    "a poster advertised the coming attractions"

    Synonyms: bill, notice, placard, poster, posting

21. noun. a witty amusing person who makes jokes

    Synonyms: wag, wit

22. noun. thin cardboard, usually rectangular
23. verb. ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor

    "I was carded when I tried to buy a beer!"

24. verb. separate the fibers of

    "tease wool"

    Synonyms: tease

Synonyms

board, lineup, carte, menu, scorecard, bill, notice, placard, poster, posting, wag, wit, tease

Common word forms

cards, carded, carder, carding

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