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/kɑːd
/- The first thing to buy is a large sheet of white thick paper or thin card, which you gently bend into a right angled curve.
- The Sun's image can then be seen on small piece of stiff card covered with some white paper.
- You won't get a good idea of the right fragrance unless you put each one on different cards or pieces of paper.
Synonyms
- We also made sure we know her birthday so we can send her a birthday card and some flowers.
- He never said goodbye to me, he's never even sent me a birthday card or a Christmas present or even tried to call me!
- The tangible proof of that was seen in the hundreds of cards, greetings and messages of hope he received during his brief illness.
Synonyms
- The bailiffs will carry an identification card and their details can be checked at the council's Parking Shop.
- There was also a call for ‘true’ family membership with joint names on the membership card.
- Yet the UEC, as proposed by David Blunkett, is an identity card in all but name.
Synonyms
- There's a few tasty challenges going in here, but the referee's kept his cards in his pocket so far.
- Fortunately the card from sensible referee Phil Joslin was only yellow and Michael Tonge wasted the free-kick.
- I read another article today concerning Luis Figo being sent off and exploding at the referee after seeing the card.
- However, if they do obtain a card, the credit limit will be low.
- It contained cash, cards and other personal items.
- A potter or a carpenter in the remote village may soon be able to avail of bank credit through a plastic card.
Synonyms
- In America it is known as old sledge or seven up and usually played by two players with the full pack of 52 cards, with the ace being the highest and the two the lowest.
- From a deck of cards, pick out the ace through six of one suit.
- We oohed when he chose the right card from the pack.
Synonyms
- He loved his game of cards and supported card games for charitable purposes.
- All of which can start to feel a bit alienating if you're a non-player and your most sophisticated game of cards to date is Twenty-One.
- Pat also enjoyed his game of cards and always supported card games for charity.
- It has slots for memory expansion, digital/multimedia cards and a 400 MHz processor.
- Most computer audio cards have great sound, so what really matters are your PC's speakers.
- Bag Woman won the first race on the card, a claiming event in which she carried a $13,500 tag, to sew up the record.
- The Sydney Turf Club had planned a seven-race card at Canterbury Park Racecourse with the Starlight Stakes the feature race.
- Beulah Park halted its nine-race card after the fifth race due to slippery track conditions.
- He called the items "score cards" with the players names preprinted on the card.
- Late arriving players must have their name added to the score card upon arrival.
- "You're a card, Mr. Spangler," said Mr. Wilkinson.
- He's a card, you got that in common.
- She thinks he's a card, and likes him.
- There is also a ten-inch file of carded notes and interviews on the Bonneville Administration, 1944-1954.
- As a result, I have 4 plastic shoeboxes where I keep all my carded recipes.
- Ipgc chairman Stephen Beard also put together a fine round of golf, carding a 4 under par 68.
- Pre-championship favourite Tiger Woods, who carded a one-under 71 on Thursday, was still to go out, along with Ernie Els who was level.
- Gary Coutts and John Bornholt carded the best scores for the visitors.
- Williams went close but Wales failed to capitalise on the brief numerical superiority before Chris Horsman was also carded, this time for a punch.
- "He's a combative player who tackles a lot and works hard so it was quite an achievement to go through a season without being carded."
- The Chelsea skipper was in no doubt that his team-mate should not have been carded.
- Lately, theaters have been taking the ‘R’ rating far more seriously than they used to - actually carding young patrons to check if they are of age to see the movie without a guardian.
- Yesterday a twelve-year-old sales clerk carded me when I purchased a bottle of non-alcoholic Merlot.
- ‘I should have carded him,’ he answered laughing as he handed over the Long Island ice tea.
- Robin Leslie and Erin Morton are two members of the team who have continued with much success and have been carded for the national field hockey team.
- Athletes who have been carded for a minimum of three years may receive some readjustment support through a special-needs application.
- Athletes who have been carded for a minimum of three years may receive some readjustment support through a special-needs application.
Phrases
a card up one's sleeve
get one's cards
give someone their cards
hold all the cards
on (or in) the cards
play (or use) the —— card
play one's cards right
put (or lay) one's cards on the table
Origin
Late Middle English (in sense 3 of the noun): from Old French carte, from Latin carta, charta, from Greek khartēs 'papyrus leaf'.
A medieval word that comes via French carte from Latin charta ‘papyrus leaf or paper’, the source of chart (late 16th century), and charter (Middle English). Its first recorded sense was ‘playing card’, source of many expressions we use today. To have a card up your sleeve is to have a plan or asset that you are keeping secret until you need it. If someone holds all the cards in a situation, they are in a very strong position, just like a card player who has a hand guaranteed to win. Someone who is secretive and cautious about their plans or activities might be said to be keeping their cards close to their chest. The image here is of a card player trying to prevent the other players from looking at their hand. If you play your cards right you make the best use of your assets and opportunities to ensure you get what you want, whereas to lay your cards on the table is to be completely open and honest in saying what your intentions are. Rather different from the above expressions is on the cards (in the US, in the cards), meaning ‘possible or likely’. The cards being referred to here are ones used for fortune-telling.
In Britain a person unlucky enough to get or be given their cards is sacked from their job. The cards referred to are the National Insurance details and other documents that were formerly retained by the employer during a person's employment. A politician who is said to play the race card exploits the issue of race or racism for their own ends. The expression originates in a letter written by Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–95) in 1886 on the question of Irish Home Rule. Referring to the Orange Order of Protestant Loyalists, he said that ‘the Orange card would be the one to play’.
Charles Dickens (1812–70) was fond of using card in the sense ‘an odd or eccentric person’, and his Sketches by Boz (1836) provides the first written use. It comes from sure card, meaning a person who was sure to succeed. Discard (late 16th century) was originally used in relation to rejecting a playing card.
Rhymes
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/kɑːd/- Spinning wheels lined the walls and at the central tables others sorted, hackled and carded the wool.
- Moreover, he noted that working in ghettos where underventilated, crowded conditions prevailed was a special risk factor in workers repairing old mattresses and/or carding used wool.
- She was wearing a sweater she'd been forced to knit from the wool they'd carded from the flocks.
- Begin by placing a small piece of wool on the left card that should be lying on your lap.
- When carding the teased wool, a card is held in each hand.
Derivatives
carder
/ noun ...- He inspired Indians to burn imported British fabrics and return to the traditional textiles woven in villages, and he helped retrain local spinners, weavers, and carders.
- Calling all Bolton ex-mill workers, carders, spinners, winders and weavers… someone wants to hear your story.
- Among the earliest were the Massachusetts textile-mill hands, farm girls and women aged sixteen to twenty-three who after 1814 worked twelve hours a day, six days a week on mechanized carders, spinners, and looms.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French carde, from Provençal carda, from cardar 'tease, comb', based on Latin carere 'to card'.
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