Carded

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Involving the disentangling of fibers with a carding device..

Definitions by Sense

1. Involving the disentangling of fibers with a carding device.
2. Combed.
3. Straightly aligned, as if combed.
4. Listed officially on an information card.
5. Possessing an official membership card;card-carrying.
6. (sports) Signed onto a current season players card.
7. (toy, collectables) Having a chipboard or cardboard backing and encased within a shaped plastic bubble.
8. simple past and past participle of card

Example Sentences

Mr. Whitman holds up the National Association of Wool Manufacturers as the representative of the carded woolen manu- facturers of the United States.

In the manufacture of worsted yarn the carded wool must be passed through combing machines until all the fibers lay parallel to each other.

The carded twills include three- and four-leaf herringbone twill and three- and fou -leaf regular twill.

Last year the difference in gain of the uncarded steers over the carded was comparatively large.

There they stretched in a carded drift of fierce white fire, smouldering in the resplendent blue, and consumed by its own intensity.

If it accepts a car as safe and subsequently a wreck occurs, while it cannot evade its responsibility for the wreck by attributing the failure to a carded defect ; if in place of settling for the car it elects to make the repairs , be they light or heavy , it clearly has the right to collect from the owner of the car on so unquestioned a defect as a broken side sill , which is carded for by the owner of the car.

Trains Nos. 2 and 4 on time table No. 129 are carded to make the run between Emerson and Sioux City in respectively one hour and five minutes and one hour and ten minutes, and to make stops at all stations as to both trains with the exception of the stations of Ferry and First Street, while the carded time of trains Nos . 10 and 12 between Emerson and Sioux City are respectively one hour and one hour and five minutes .

The jackets contain very few personal papers in contrast to the carded records for the Civil War (entry 519).

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