(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.
Parchment
Definition:
(n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum.
(n.) The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
(2) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
(3) 3 Once chilled, line the pastry with crumpled baking parchment and then with baking beans or dried pulses and bake blind for 15 mins.
(4) Fragments of Dead Sea Scroll Parchments were extracted for collagen and subjected to amino acid analysis.
(5) In a bid to increase its resources, the almoner’s office last month reasserted the Vatican’s monopoly on the production of papal blessings on parchment, which some Catholics buy to mark special occasions such as baptisms and marriages.
(6) A 18-year-old female with unusual type of parchment-like right ventricle died of intractable congestive heart failure was reported.
(7) Leave them to rise on a piece of lightly greased baking parchment for 45-60 minutes – until the dough is 1½- 2 times as thick.
(8) In 48 specimen a combination of increased density of the condyle on the facial aspect with a thin bony lamella in the roof of the fossa, which either shows high density or very little material of low density, a so-called parchment fossa, was observed.
(9) 2 Once chilled, roll the pastry out on a piece of baking parchment so that it is large enough to line the base and sides of a 20cm-diameter cake or flan tin (I used a round loose-bottomed cake tin).
(10) Prepare the pudding basin and batter as below, and cover with baking parchment as instructed (even in the oven, this will help to keep some moisture in).
(11) Reflecting colours from the fatty layer of the precorneal film have been studied using mat filter (grease-proof paper, parchment paper, tracing paper) in front of the slit lamp mirror, maximally open light slit in a half-lit room, and magnification x 15.
(12) The microflora of an ancient Greek manuscript parchment was studied using different microscopic techniques.
(13) Among them, completely unremarked upon until Dr Schwartz happened upon it recently, was a parchment-bound album that a pencilled note identified as full of photos of Hitler's own paintings.
(14) For the meringue: egg whites 6 caster sugar 280g shelled hazelnuts 100g cornflour 1 tbsp For the filling: hazelnuts 150g vanilla pod 1 honey 4 tbsp double cream 400ml figs 9 Line a 33cm x 24cm Swiss roll tin with lightly oiled baking parchment.
(15) 6 Place the chicken breast down on to the baking parchment and put into the hot oven for 30 minutes.
(16) Unlike other artefacts which may be a bit more sexy, it’s a piece of parchment with some rather unintelligible words written on it in Latin,” acknowledged Sandra Matthews-Marsh, chief executive of Visit Kent, the body that promotes tourism in the county keen to put itself on the newly launched Magna Carta tourist map .
(17) Line the sides and base of a 33 x 23 x 5.5cm baking tin with baking parchment.
(18) The looming tussle to succeed the prime minister before the next general election also had a bearing on what made it on to the parchment in a thin Queen’s speech.
(19) Membrane potentials have been measured across parchment-supported cupric palmitate membrane separating various 1:1 electrolytes at concentrations C1 and C2 such that C2 = 10 C1.
(20) 6 Cut a small disc of parchment paper and place on top of the sauce, then cover with a lid.