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As each card is played in blackjack, it changes the possibilities for both player and dealer by diminishing the number and the variety of cards that may be dealt.

1963 January 25, “Games: Beating the Dealer”, in Time:

He played cards with his friends.

(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.

The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.

He accused them of playing the race card.

Having adopted civil union as their goal, proponents of the Civil Union Bill were sensitive to the need not to overplay the human rights card, aware that there was a significant degree of resistance in the New Zealand […]

2007, Luke McNamara, Human Rights Controversies: The Impact of Legal Form, page 138:

Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all.

2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 24:24 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04:

play the something card
play the something card#English

A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)

Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.

Do you have any card? I want to make a poster.

(uncountable) Paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than paperboard, used for postcards, playing cards, etc.; card stock.

As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye […].

1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

"He's a cheery old card," muttered Harry to Jack / As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. / . . . / But he did for them both by his plan of attack.

MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.
EVE: Oh, Marek, you card.

2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan:

(informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.

What's on the card for tonight?

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professional wrestling

A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.

(cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.

He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.

(computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.

The button will "see" the cursor through a card domain graphic; you can then change button graphics on each card.

1993, Danny Goodman, The Complete HyperCard 2.2 Handbook, page 198:

The interaction model of WAP, originally developed for mobile phones to interact with information services in a web-like way, was based on Apple's HyperCard, and instead of pages, the user interacted with a deck of cards, which were interlinked by a scripting language.

2008, Johan Hjelm, Why IPTV?: Interactivity, Technologies, Services, page 13:

The basic building blocks of WML applications are cards. Cards are equivalent to HTML pages. Just as Web browser can show only one page at a time (except when using frames), a WAP enabled device can also show only one card at a time.

2012, Veljko Milutinovic, Frédéric Patricelli, Mastering E-Business Infrastructure, page 329:

(computing) Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.

She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.

The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.

(television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.

You can make most theory answers without cards, but some cards do exist which specifically criticize kritiks on a theoretical basis.

2011, N. Andre Cossette, The Art of Debate: 12th Edition, page 123:

In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.

to put a card in the newspapers

(dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.

This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

(dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.

"The Lord possessed me [= Wisdom] in the beginning of his way, even before his works of old was I set up;" that law, which hath been the pattern to make, and is the card to guide the world by

1594, Richard Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, 1.2.5, page 153 (Everyman edition, vol. 1):

All the quarters that they know / I' the shipman's card.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

(weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.

Coordinate term: deck

(graph theory) A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.

Where's your card? I want to see your grades.

(Philippines, education) Ellipsis of report card.

en-noun

card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)

→ Bengali: কার্ড (karḍo)

→ Burmese: ကတ် (kat)

→ Chinese: 卡 (kǎ)

→ Gujarati: કાર્ડ (kārḍ)

→ Hausa: kati

→ Hindi: कार्ड (kārḍ)

→ Italian: card

→ Japanese: カード (kādo)

→ Korean: 카드 (kadeu)

→ Malay: kad

→ Pashto: کارډ (kārḍ)

Pitcairn-Norfolk: kaad

→ Sinhalese: කාඩ් (kāḍ)

→ Swahili: kadi

→ Tagalog: kard

→ Urdu: کارڈ (kārḍ)

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resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose

kaart

flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.

kadi

(cricket) tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match

From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of chart.


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They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.

I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.

Ted (Keanu Reeves): Whoa. He didn't even card us, dude. / Bill (Alex Winter): Yeah, we have to remember this place.

1989, Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (motion picture):

(transitive, US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.

For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 32:

McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.

(transitive, golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

en-verb

card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)

cards (present singular third-person)
carding (participle present)
carded (participle past)
carded (past)


card

(uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.

(dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.

(textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.

(dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

kaardplank

hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning

kaardrol

machine for disentagling the fibres of wool prior to spinning

From Middle English carde, Old French carde, from Old Occitan carda, deverbal from cardar, from Late Latin *carito, from Latin carō (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).


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"Isn't that true, Bertha? " asked the smith. "Yes, every word of it, my lad," said Mother Bertha, who was sitting near the hearth carding.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 252:

(textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.

to card a horse

the carded wool, he says,
Is smoothly lapp'd around those cylinders

(transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.

It is necessary that this book carded and purged of certain base things.

1612, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Thomas Shelton, Don Quixote:

(obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

that card your beer, if you see your guests begin to be drunk, half small and half strong

1592, Robert Greene, A Quip for an Upstart Courtier:

(obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

From Middle English carden, from Old French carder, from carde (“cotton card”); see Etymology 2 for more.