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单词 card reader
释义

card readern.

Brit. /ˈkɑːd ˌriːdə/, U.S. /ˈkɑrd ˌridər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: card n.2, reader n.
Etymology: < card n.2 + reader n.
1. A person who claims to interpret cards (esp. tarot cards) as a method of fortune telling.
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1852 Hogg's Instructor New. Ser. 9 412/1 This adventuress was one of the last..of the public and professional card-readers, or disclosers of the future through cards.
1862 Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader Jan. 2/1 Whoever..professes to foretell the future..may be a fortune-teller or a card-reader, or a clairvoyant, or a spiritual, medium, or a diviner, or even a prophet, but he is not an astrologer.
1936 Crisis Apr. 114/3 Customs..dictated by fear, like knocking on wood,..the number 13, black cats, fortune tellers, card-readers, mascots, etc.
1967 R. Cavendish Black Arts iii. 114 Murat, Napoleon's brilliant cavalry leader and the King of Naples, consulted the famous card-reader Mlle Lenormand, cut the pack and turned up the King of Diamonds.
2004 Time Out N.Y. 4 Nov. 44/2 If you want your spiritual forecast.., head to this annual fair of professional intuits, card readers and energy channelers.
2. Cards. A player who attempts to deduce which cards are held by an opponent or opponents, esp. by keeping a mental tally of the cards dealt or played, thereby maintaining a tactical advantage. Cf. card counter n.2
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > card-player > other players
hand1589
revoker1754
sitter-out1829
non-dealer1857
card reader1899
card counter1962
1899 Whist Apr. 171/1 We must confess to thinking it improbable that any analyst, however keen a card-reader, would figure out that North's 9 d. was the head of a sequence.
1935 Collier's 23 Nov. 20/2 No person who is not a good card-reader can possibly hope to become a fine bridge player.
1989 D. Sklansky Sklansky on Poker i. 29 Any time a good card reader plays to the end of the hand, he frequently can steal half the pot with no hand at all.
2000 A. N. Schoonmaker Psychol. of Poker iv. 144 You can master the odds, read all the books, become a great card reader, and do whatever else you think will help.
3. Originally Computing.
a. A device for reading a punched card, typically by converting the pattern of holes into electrical signals. Cf. reader n. 8. Now chiefly historical.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > processing device
reproducer1885
sorter1917
interpreter1936
verifier1940
card reader1946
reader1946
tape reader1947
collator1949
tape reproducer1961
stacker1962
tabulator1970
1946 H. H. Goldstine & A. Goldstine in Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 2 97 Numbers are introduced into the ENIAC by means of a unit called the constant transmitter which operates in conjunction with an IBM card reader.
1948 W. J. Eckert in Sci. Monthly Nov. 319/1 The card readers on the Calculator..sense the holes in the cards by means of wire brushes.
1964 Res. News: Computing Center (Univ. of Michigan) May 14/2 The card readers in the 1401 and 1410 systems can transfer information to magnetic tape at the rate of 800 cards per minute.
2005 A. J. Wells Grid Database Design i. 11 If the card reader read a hole, it was considered to be a 1, and if no hole was present, it was a zero.
b. An electronic device that reads a magnetic strip, bar code, etc., on a credit or debit card, identity card, etc.
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1975 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 11 Feb. 942/1 A central control responsive to said egress signal to provide a read signal to said card reader.
1985 Daily Tel. 22 June 19/5 The retailer will wipe the card through a card reader and enter the details of the transaction.
1993 High Life (Brit. Airways) Oct. 8/2 (caption) Duty Manager Mike Slator demonstrates INSPASS by swiping his card in one of two card readers in British Airways' arrivals hall.
2008 M. Aigner & K. C. Posch in S. Furnell et al. Securing Information & Communications Syst. x. 196 Contactless cards do not have to be inserted into a card reader's slot; rather, they need to be brought into the proximity of the reader.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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