| 单词 | wild card |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswild card wild card n. (a) (see sense A. 15b above); also figurative; (b) Sport (originally U.S.), a player or team chosen for a tournament at the discretion of the organizers after the regular places have been taken up; frequently attributive; (c) Computing a character that will match any character or combination of characters in a file name, etc. ΘΠ society > computing and information technology > data > [noun] > character > particular characters wild card1940 carriage return1950 subscript1957 delimiter1959 society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > other players server1585 free agent1649 benchwarmer1662 puncher1681 sticker1779 hard hitter1790 hitter1813 go-devil1835 beneficiaire1841 colt1846 heavyweight1857 stayer1862 left-hander1864 attack1869 cap1879 international1882 roadman1886 big leaguer1887 homester1887 sand lotter1887 badger1890 internationalist1892 repeater1893 anchorman1895 grandstander1896 stylist1897 homebrew1903 letterman1905 toss-loser1906 fouler1908 rookie1908 mudder1912 sharpshooter1912 pro-amateur1919 receiver1919 southpaw1925 freestyler1927 hotshot1927 active1931 all-timer1936 iceman1936 wild card1940 scrambler1954 rounder1955 franchise1957 call-up1960 trialist1960 non-import1964 sandbagger1965 rebel1982 wide-body1986 society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [adjective] > other attributes scienced1818 starting1855 international1866 all-American1887 unmarked1890 fouled1898 muckerish1900 power1932 playmaking1933 open1937 wild card1940 wide-body1986 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > cards of specific value in game sequent1620 lead1742 maker1753 stop1808 strong card1839 king card1850 brisque1870 honour card1876 penultimate1876 guard1885 thirteener1891 wild card1940 1940 O. Jacoby On Poker x. 138 The Bug, three sixes and a ten merely count as three sixes since the Bug is not strictly a wild card. 1970 New Yorker 3 Oct. 34/3 The other thirteen games..will be ‘wild-card’ encounters, to be played on alternate Monday nights. 1971 Guardian 17 June 12/6 Kennedy is the wild card in the 1972 Deck, as the Nixon men see it. 1976 ‘M. Nelson’ Crusoe Test iii. 35 The joker. The wild card. The card the holder can use as he pleases. 1976 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 15 Aug. 3/11 Renee was not ranked high enough to be accepted on her standard of play, but she could be nominated as the ‘wild card’—a crowd pleaser. 1977 Hongkong Standard 14 Apr. 11/2 Fifteen-year-old Betty Newfield of the US reached the second round by defeating Marlie Buehler of Australia 4–6, 6–0, 7–5 after getting into the draw as a wild card. 1981 Washington Post 18 Mar. d3 The conference championship games are now played on the home field of the competitor that has the best season record, unless it's a wild-card team. 1984 Times 21 Sept. 19/6 The wild card in the BPCC pack is Mr Maxwell's dual role as head of both BPCC and Mirror Group Newspapers. 1984 K. Buckner et al. Using UCSD p-System vi. 56 The wildcard ‘?’ should be used to remove several files from a disk. 1984 K. Buckner et al. Using UCSD p-System xv 156 the WILD unit makes available wild card pattern matching on string variables. 1985 Personal Computer World Feb. 244/1 (advt.) Powerful wild cards permit editing of categories of file name in one instruction. < as lemmas |
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