card

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /kɑːd/ or [kʰɑːd]
• (US) enPR: kärd, IPA ^(key): /kɑrd/ or [kʰɑrd]
• (AU) IPA ^(key): /kaːd/ or [kʰäːd]

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Noun

Singular card

Plural cards

1. (countable) A card is a small, often rectangular piece of paper or plastic, usually with information.

   The police stopped me and asked to see my identity card.

   "I don't have any money with me, can I pay with my credit card?"

   The soccer player got a red card and left the game.

   We spent the afternoon playing card games.

   I think we sent them a Christmas card last year.

Related words

• bank card
• baseball card
• birthday card
• business card
• cardboard
• card game
• cardshark
• cardsharp
• cardstock
• Christmas card
• credit card
• debit card
• discard
• fingerprint card
• graphics card
• green card
• greeting card
• high card
• identification card/ID card/identity card
• index card
• in the cards
• keycard
• low card
• membership card
• phone card
• playing card
• postcard
• put one's cards on the table
• report card
• sound card
• trump card
• video card
• wildcard

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  Playing cards

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  Credit cards

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  An identity card

Verb

Plain form card

Third-person singular cards

Past tense carded

Past participle carded

Present participle carding

1. (transitive) If you card someone, you check their ID cards, usually to see if they are old enough to enter a place or drink alcohol.

   They have to card anybody who looks 30 or younger.