Card

/kɑːd/ · noun

Meaning

A playing card..

Definitions by Sense

1. A playing card.
2. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
3. A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
5. A bank card.
6. Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
7. (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.
8. (obsolete) A map or chart.

Example Sentences

As each card is played in blackjack, it changes the possibilities for both player and dealer by diminishing the number and the variety of cards that may be dealt.

He played cards with his friends.

The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.

He accused them of playing the race card.

Having adopted civil union as their goal, proponents of the Civil Union Bill were sensitive to the need not to overplay the human rights card, aware that there was a significant degree of resistance in the New Zealand […]

Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all.

Cashier: "Cash or card? Customer: "I'm paying on my phone, so card."

Do you have any card? I want to make a poster.

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Word Forms

• cards
• carding
• carded

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