card

A playing card.

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.

Any game using playing cards; a card game.

He played cards with his friends.

A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)

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

He accused them of playing the race card.

Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.

A bank card.

To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.

They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.

I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.

To play cards.

For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.

To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.

Material with embedded short wire bristles.

A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.

A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a

A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

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