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1. (uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
2. A playing card.
3. A greeting card.
4. A business card.
5. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
6. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
7. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
8. (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.
9. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
10. (dated) A printed programme.
11. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
12. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
13. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
14. (dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
15. (obsolete) A map or chart.
16. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
17. (informal) An amusing but slightly foolish person.
18. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
19. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
20. An indicator card.
21. (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.
22. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.

Verbit

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