(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
(n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
(n.) An indicator card. See under Indicator.
(v. i.) To play at cards; to game.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
(v. t.) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.
(v. t.) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
(v. t.) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(2) For this purpose a test consisting of 135 picture cards was devised.
(3) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(4) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(5) This defeat, though, is hardly a good calling card for the main job.
(6) Subgingival plaque was sampled and the presence or absence of the above mentioned bacteria assessed with BANA reagent cards (Perio Scan).
(7) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(8) We don't have ID cards; we should not be stopped by officialdom and have to prove who we are."
(9) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(10) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(11) Unless you are part of some Unite-esque scheme to join up as part of a grand revolutionary plan, why would you bother shelling out for a membership card?
(12) But he lost much of his earnings betting on cards and horses, and he has readily admitted that it was losses of up to £750,000 a night that compelled him to make some of his worst films.
(13) On Friday, Sollecito had his passport taken away and his ID card stamped to show he must not leave Italy, according to police.
(14) The addition of the lower dose of nifedipine to atenolol did not significantly alter the weekly consumption of glyceryl trinitrate or the mean number of anginal attacks as assessed by diary cards.
(15) He wants a weaker "red card" system when a number of states object to a Brussels measure.
(16) In a sample of families of nonschizophrenic outpatient adolescents, a manual for scoring such deviance on stories told for seven TAT cards was developed.
(17) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
(18) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
(19) The debit card doubles as a Clubcard, and customers will be able to earn points wherever they use it.
(20) A film sequel to 2013’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is also on the cards.
Cardboard
Definition:
(n.) A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
(2) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
(3) His website sells direct to the public, with prices starting from £245 for a plain cardboard coffin, as well as offering a comparison service.
(4) The few that remain benefit from ample provisions, friendly volunteers and cardboard-and-curtain partitions designed by the world-famous architect, Shigeru Ban .
(5) For primary explorers, build habitats out of cardboard with sticky tape and get them to decorate their designs.
(6) But it's the images of women and their children marching through the night that stick most in the mind: infants toting cardboard coffins, mothers chanting hate.
(7) At the head of the march one man carried a handwritten cardboard sign that read: "Lonmin, who gave you power to kill us on our own land?
(8) A giant Trump mask and a cardboard coffin were displayed.
(9) [Paul] said, ‘That’s all great, but take Her Majesty out now; it doesn’t work.’” Studio rules meant any edited material had to be left at the end of the mix, so Kurlander left nearly 20 seconds before Her Majesty, and put the tape in Abbey Road’s tin of masters – crucially, not the basic cardboard box that they used for rough cuts.
(10) The artist Luis Manuel Serrano has given collage workshops at the jail for more than 10 years, helping women tell their stories by cutting images out of magazines and gluing them to large pieces of cardboard.
(11) Histological sections of biopsy material having been embedded in paraffin were projected on cardboard.
(12) Every major city will house a glamorous gentrified enclave to which only successful social brand identities (or "people" as they used to be known) with more than 300,000 followers will be permitted entry, and a load of cardboard boxes and dog shit on the outside for everybody else.
(13) This graphically attractive and terribly useful deck of cards presents information about the eco credentials of 45 widely used materials such as cardboard and PLA (polylactic acid) in a simple way that lets you see their environmental impact at a glance.
(14) There was the traditional method: Mazzella could have stood by the side of the road with a cardboard sign, but that seemed very low-tech.
(15) "The UK produces 2m tonnes of cardboard boxes a year.
(16) Oh hold on, that's suddenly gone off air to be replaced by a piece of cardboard presumably held up by some fashionably-coiffed work experience chump, reading "USA v Algeria coming up".
(17) Now staff and volunteers hunched over the infirm, dispensing sips of water and fanning them with bits of cardboard.
(18) But so often, open worlds are built from architectural filler – bland unending landscapes and cardboard box tenements.
(19) Harry Redknapp does his big fish, little fish, cardboard box routine.
(20) For making a just fit size prosthesis, we cut off a cardboard as the same size as the specimen and the Acryl-resin Marlex sandwich is molded from the cardboard.