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Substantiivi

1. A playing card.
2. Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
3. (uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
4. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
5. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
6. A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
7. (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.
8. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
9. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
10. A bank card.
11. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
12. Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
13. (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.
14. (obsolete) A map or chart.
15. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
16. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
17. (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.
18. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
19. (computing) Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
20. A greeting card.
21. A business card.
22. (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.
23. A test card.
24. In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
25. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
26. (dated) A printed programme.
27. (dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
28. (nautical) Ellipsis of compass card.
29. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
30. (graph theory) A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.
31. An indicator card.
32. (Philippines, education) Ellipsis of report card.

Verbi

1. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
2. (transitive, US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
3. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
4. (dated) To play cards.
5. (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
6. (transitive, golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
7. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.