Card

A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.

A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.

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

An indicator card. See under Indicator.

To play at cards; to game.

An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

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

To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.

To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

(baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat; "the managers presented their cards to the umpire at home plate"

a list of dishes available at a restaurant; "the menu was in French"

a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions"

a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities