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cardn.1

Brit. /kɑːd/, U.S. /kɑrd/
Forms: Middle English carde, Middle English kard, Middle English karde, Middle English– card.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from French. Perhaps a borrowing from Latin. Perhaps a borrowing from Dutch. Etymons: French carde; Latin cardus; Dutch carde.
Etymology: Perhaps (i) < Anglo-Norman karde, Anglo-Norman and Middle French (originally and chiefly northern) carde (feminine) wool card (2nd half of the 14th cent.; 13th cent. in Old French, earliest in plural in a text from Artois, denoting either wool cards or teasels for use in carding wool or raising the nap on woollen cloth: see note); or its ultimate etymon (ii) post-classical Latin cardus teasel (used for fulling or carding) or wool card (from early 13th cent. in British sources), specific use of cardus, variant of classical Latin carduus great thistle, cardoon (see carduus n.); or perhaps (iii) < Middle Dutch carde, caerde iron comb for dressing wool, wool card, (mid 14th cent.; 13th cent. denoting a teasel used for carding; Dutch kaarde ), ultimately < post-classical Latin cardon- , cardo great thistle, teasel (see cardoon n. and note on Germanic forms below). Compare card v.1, carder n.1Related words in Romance languages. The proximate etymology of Old French carde (feminine) is uncertain. Its gender has been explained as the result of reanalysis of an unattested collective plural form *carda , deriving ultimately < post-classical Latin cardus teasel (masculine), multiple seed heads of this plant being used in making a single wool card. However, formation within French from the corresponding verb carder (see card v.1) has alternatively been suggested. Compare Old Occitan carda wool card, Catalan carda spiky plant or instrument used for carding wool, wool card (14th cent.), Spanish carda wool card (13th cent.), Portuguese carda wool card (16th cent.), all feminine. Compare also post-classical Latin carda an impurity in wool, (perhaps) teasel or wool card (from late 13th cent. in British sources). Compare also (directly from post-classical Latin cardus ) Italian cardo (masculine), denoting various spiky plants and an instrument for carding wool (both late 13th cent.) and further forms in the Romance languages cited at carduus n. Related words in Germanic languages. With Middle Dutch carde , caerde compare Old Frisian carda wool card (West Frisian kaarde ), Old Saxon karda (Middle Low German kārte , kārde wool card, teasel), Old High German karta (weak feminine), kardo (weak masculine) teasel (9th cent.; Middle High German karte teasel, wool card, German Karde teasel), and also (immediately < Middle Low German) Old Icelandic karði (Icelandic karði ), Norwegian karde , Swedish karda , Danish karde , karte , apparently ultimately reflecting borrowing of post-classical Latin cardon- , cardo great thistle, teasel (see cardoon n.) into West Germanic.
1. One of a pair of instruments used to separate and align the fibres of wool, flax, cotton, etc., and remove impurities in preparation for spinning, typically consisting of a board (usually hand-held) set with metal teeth or short wire pins; (later also) a brush of short wire pins fixed onto the surface or rollers of a carding machine.The earliest cards were used in pairs, and could be held with one in each hand, or one card could be held in the hand and the other fastened to a stock or support. The fibres are processed by being passed between a pair or set of cards.See also hand card n., stock-card n., tow-card n., wool card n., etc.
Some of the early quots. at this sense may rather belong at sense 2. Quot. a1400 apparently refers to the use of a single similar implement in the preparation of sheepskin.
Apparently attested earliest as a surname in the compound card maker n.1 (see quot. 1345-7), although it is possible that this could instead reflect sense 2. Cf. also compounds at Compounds 1.
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1345–7 in East Anglian (1869) 4 144 [Richard] Cardemaker.
a1400 MS Trin. Cambr. O.9.39 in Crafte of Lymmyng (2016) i. 38 Karde hit wel and clene vpon þe wulle syde with a karde as þese skynners karden þese lombe vell with.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 269 Karde for wulle, cardus.
1484 Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §29. m. 20 No merchaunt straungier..brynge in to this realme..cardys for wolle.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2249/2 It is no womens matters, at cardes and towe.
1757 J. Dyer Fleece iii. 86 Behold the fleece beneath the spiky comb Drop its long locks, or, from the mingling card, Spread in soft flakes.
1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden ii. 58 With wiry teeth revolving cards release The tangled knots.
1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. iv**/1 From the lap machine, the cotton passes to the carding engines, or cards.
2009 Woollen Spinning Technol. Handbk. (NPCS Board of Consultants & Engineers) ii. 86 The number and diameters of workers and strippers vary from card to card.
2. An implement used for raising a nap on cloth, esp. (in early use) a brush consisting of teasel-heads set in a frame. Now rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > card or comb
card1463
preen1602
comb-
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > putting nap on > other equipment
card1463
percha1533
pickard1549
frieze-board1688
rub-board1737
1463–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1463 §17. m. 4 That every fuller..in his crafte and occupacion of fullyng and reisyng of cloth, exercise and use tazels, and noo cardes, in disseyvably hurtyng the same cloth.
1511–12 Act 3 Henry VIII vi. §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 28 The Walker and Fuller..shall not rowe nor werke any Clothe or Webbe with any Cardes.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Applaneur de draps, the Cloathworker; who with his thistle cards doth smooth and stroake down clothes.
1819 A. Rees Cycl. VIII. at Cloth The instruments used in this operation [sc. dressing cloth] are the wire cards, and teazels.
1969 U.S. Patent 3,475,926 4 By the present invention, in place of the cards being formed of wires having burred ends they are formed of prongs or wires constituted in the form of drill points.

Compounds

C1. As a modifier, designating a component part of a card, or material used in making a card, as in card tack, card wire, etc. [Earlier currency of card leaf (compare quot. ?c1425) is probably implied by Anglo-Norman cardeleve (c1390).]
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?c1425 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 81 Yt ys ordand and assented..that na maister..bryng fra Coventre to York any cardelefes to sell tham amang thase that are made in the citee of York.
a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1907) I. 183 That no smythier ne Brakemon..bye ne selle..ne Cardwyre ne mystermannes wyre.
1597–8 Act 39 Elizabeth I xiv. §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. ii. 914 Their Trade..of Cardmakinge and drawing of Cardwyer.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 403 In manufacturing card-boards, card-tacks, and finishing the cards.
2014 U.S. Patent Applic. 2013//0133159 A1 3/2 The performance of the card wire of the present invention can be verified via the visual observation of the web regularity.
C2.
card can n. a receptacle into which the carded wool, etc., falls, after being processed by a carding machine.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > machine > other parts
card board1420
card can1815
bend1882
nip1884
mote knife1896
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > combing > machine > parts of
card can1815
broach1837
nipper1852
1815 Manch. Mercury 11 Apr. (advt.) A very complete Spinning Concern..: consisting of about 50 carding engines..; about 1300 skeleton and card cans, [etc.].
1887 Manch. Guard. 26 Feb. 12 Frame pulleys, card cans.
1995 U.S. Patent 5,459,990 3 Six card cans are utilized for drawing to be fed into one drawn sliver can.
card cloth n. (a) cloth used as a covering for a card table (rare); (b) the leather or rubber backing of a card, into which short wire pins are set; = card clothing n.
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1821 W. Read Rouge et Noir (ed. 2) 111 Till his last five-franc piece cast a gleam of reproach in his eyes from its perilous birth on the yellow-lined card cloth.
1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. v**/1 To make card-cloth, hides of leather are cut up into strips.
2012 Which Carder Cloth? in www.classiccarder.co.uk 24 Aug. (accessed 18 Mar. 2020) Card cloth is measured by the amount of teeth per inch (tpi).
card clothing n. the leather or rubber backing of a card, into which short wire pins are set; = card cloth n.
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1830 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 10 Nov. A quantity of Card Clothing, of different manufactures.
2003 C. A. Lawrence Fund. Spun Yarn Technol. iii. 148 The performance of card clothing degrades over time because of tooth point wear.
card end n. now rare a bundle of carded wool, etc., produced by a carding machine; = sliver n.1 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > ribbon or band of loose fibres
sliver1703
card end1832
ribbon1842
1832 J. Montgomery Carding & Spinning Master's Assistant 62 A continuity of the fleece..was..delivered by rollers into the can, in the form of a continued carding, or rowan, which is now called a card end.
1864 R. A. Arnold Hist. Cotton Famine 29 The ‘card end’..deposits itself in circular tin ‘pots’.
1973 Technol. & Culture 14 55 One transference of cans of card ends (between carding machine and drawing frame) became redundant.
† card-gatherer n. Obsolete a person who refashions old cards for sale.
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1711 Remarks Wier-drawers, Card-makers, & Eng. Wool-clothiers 2 The Old Small Cards are sold to the Spinners..for 3d a Pair..; and making a moderate Allowance to the Card-Gatherer, for dressing them, it cannot be suppos'd, that this Diminutive Trader can afford to give much more than a penny per Pair.
1725 London Gaz. No. 6400/6 James Hand, late of Lyneham in the County of Wilts, Cardgatherer.
card-tenter n. a person who attends to or operates a carding machine.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > machine > one who tends
card-tenter1834
1834 Mechanics' Mag. 19 Apr. 40 (table) Card-tenters... Card-brushers and cylinder-stripper... Drawing-frame tenter.
1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. v**/1 The carding depends more on the quality of the cards than upon any..skill in the..card-tenters.
1981 Chest 79 68/2 The cause of death was derived from our own and the coroner's pathologist's assessment... All 22 women had been card-tenters.
card thistle n. rare either of two species of teasel, the wild teasel ( Dipsacus fullonum) and the fuller's teasel ( D. sativus).In later use only in lists of alternative names for the plants.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Dipsacaceae (teasel and allies) > [noun]
teasela1300
wokethistlea1400
fuller's teasel?c1425
fawthistle1483
Venus's basin1551
card thistle1578
Venus's bath1578
fuller's weed1587
fuller's herb1593
fuller's thistle1601
fuller's thorn1601
Venus' laver1601
shepherd's rod1633
shepherd's staff1760
manweed1829
Venus's cup1855
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lx. 521 The Cardthistel or Teasel [Fr. le Chardon à carder, Du. Caerden] is of two sortes, the tame and the wild.
1600 R. Cawdrey Treasurie Similies 388 As the Card-thystle or Teasell, hath Celles and Cabbins like the Honie combe, and in them, first white flowers, but after their falling away, a bitter seede: So the wicked haue their Sinagoges, and a faire shew of words, but in the end bitter fruites.
1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Index 9 Dipsacus sylvestris L. Adam's Flannel, Barber's Brushes,..Card Thistle, Churchbrooms.
1992 W. T. Parsons & E. G. Cuthbertson Noxious Weeds Austral. 413 Wild teasel... Dipsacus fullonum L. ssp. fullonum... Synonym: D. sylvestris Huds.... Alternative names: card thistle, fuller's teasel (USA).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cardn.2

Brit. /kɑːd/, U.S. /kɑrd/
Forms: Middle English–1600s carde, 1500s– card; also Scottish pre-1700 1700s– caird. See also carte n.1, chart n.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French carte.
Etymology: < Middle French carte (in plural) game of cards (1393 in jouer aux cartes , 1476 in jeu de cartes ), map or chart (1404; mid 15th cent. denoting a nautical chart), playing card (1429), a stiff paper or pasteboard card (15th cent.), stiff paper or pasteboard (c1480; French carte carte n.1, originally a variant of Middle French charte chart n.), with unexplained voicing of the dental in English (perhaps resulting from assimilation to the preceding r ). Compare earlier carte n.1, chart n.Parallels in Romance languages. Compare Catalan carta (13th cent.), Spanish carta paper or parchment (12th cent.), letter, document (late 15th cent.), compass card (mid 16th cent. or earlier), Italian carta sheet of paper or similar material (a1294), playing card (a1419; compare quot. 1816 at sense 1b), map (1435–45, now only as carta geografica (1684) in this sense), all showing regular development from classical Latin charta , carta chart n. Form of the French word. The use in French of the form carte in these senses (rather than the expected form charte ) probably partly reflects formal and semantic influence from Italian, although additional influence from Catalan has also been suggested. Notes on senses. In sense 3 perhaps suggested by earlier application of expressions such as sure card , good card to people (see sense 2). With sense 4 compare carte n.1 2. In sense 5a after Spanish carta (mid 16th cent. or earlier in this sense). For possible evidence of earlier currency in this sense compare the following, although it is possible that this shows sense 4:1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. vii. f. 77v Knowleage of the sea, carde and compasse.
I. Senses relating to playing cards.
1.
a. In plural. A game or games played with playing cards; the playing of card games. Frequently in to play cards (formerly also †to play at (the) cards, †to play on the cards); a game of cards (also a game at cards (now regional), †a game on the cards).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > card-playing
cardsa1450
carding?a1500
card play1528
card playing1528
a1450 in F. W. Willmore Hist. Walsall (1887) 166 If eny manr, manis son..be founden..plaiyng at eny unlawefull games..as dyce, tables, cardes, cloch, tenes, foteball..they that so be founden..to be taken and put in pryson.
1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 84 Item to the Quenes grace..for hure disporte at cardes this Cristmas.
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper sig. Aiijv Our brother Westchester had as liue playe twentie nobles in a night, at Priemeero on the cards.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 13 Jan. (1970) III. 9 My aunt Wight and my wife and I to cards.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Knave-Noddy, a Game on the Cards.
1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. iii. 74 Spend no more Time in playing at Cards.
1787 T. Jefferson Corr. (1830) 95 After supper, cards; and after cards, bed.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 497 While an occasional evening away..at an innocent and cheerful game at cards.
1930 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 28 Jan. 3/2 (advt.) When friends come round to tea or ‘drop in’ for a game of cards after dinner, give them sandwiches made with ‘Sailor’ Savouries.
2013 R. Rowell Eleanor & Park xxxiv. 203 They were sitting in the kitchen, playing cards.
b. Any one of a set or deck of small, usually rectangular pieces of stiff paper or similar material having numbers or pictures on one side, used for playing various card games, some involving gambling; = playing card n. Also: any one of a set of similar items used in other games or in fortune-telling; cf. tarot n.Chiefly with allusion to playing cards of the French-suited pattern, the most common type in English-speaking countries, in which cards are arranged in four suits (spades, clubs, hearts, and diamonds), with each suit comprising numeral cards marked with 1, 2, 3, etc., and the corresponding number of suit symbols (or pips), and three court cards, bearing a representation of one of three figures from a royal court: a king, a queen, and a knave (or jack). A standard commercial deck contains 52 cards: ten numeral cards and three court cards in each suit, sometimes with the addition of one or more jokers (joker n. 3b). Other traditional packs with different suit symbols and pack sizes have also been used at various periods and in other countries.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun]
card1463
playing card1480
carte1497
bookc1575
charta1680
broad1789
flat1819
pasteboard1840
paper1842
painted mischief1879
boards1923
1463–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1463 §22. m. 7 It please his highnes..to ordeyn..that noo marchaunt..bryng, sende nor conveye..eny of theese wares or thinges underwriten: that is to sey, eny wollen bonettes..sheres for taillours, cisours, rasours, shethes, cardes for pleiyng, pynnes, patyns..to be uttred and sold within this reame.
1548 F. Bryan tr. A. de Guevara Dispraise Life Courtier xi. sig. h. viiv False marked cardes for to deceiue the innocentes, wynne their money, & leese their owne soules.
1591 (?a1425) Harrowing of Hell (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. 339 Usynge cardes, dyce, and cuppes smale with many false othes to sell thy ale.
1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xiii. 123 The five fingers (alias, five of trumps) is the best Card in the pack.
1691 in tr. P. O. de Vaumorière Art of Pleasing in Conversat. (advt.) Fortune-telling Cards.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 93. ¶7 I think it is very wonderful to see Persons of the best Sense passing away a dozen Hours together in shuffling and dividing a Pack of Cards.
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 4 Cards are mentioned as being in common use among the Italians at the end of the thirteenth century.
1835 Cheltenham Chron. 11 June 1/1 The fortune teller, again consulting his cards, answered.
1888 St. Paul (Minnesota) Daily Globe 1 July 13/2 It was agreed that the driver should deal the cards.
1930 G. MacMillan Stepping Out xix. 157 I've read my cards and know that marriage isn't in 'em and I'm not shedding any tears over it.
1983 D. Spector Magic Moments i. 2 ‘Pick a card, any card,’ I challenged, holding out the shiny deck to Sara.
2020 Daily Star Sunday 11 Oct. (TV Suppl.)13/1 Serving sizes are usually around three to four ounces—about the size of a deck of cards.
c. Any one of the playing pieces in the game of dominoes, a domino (domino n. 3a). Now chiefly Caribbean.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > dominoes > [noun] > domino
card1801
domino1831
stone1865
bone1897
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. xviii. 240 When two play, the whole of the pieces, which are ridiculously enough called cards, are hustled about upon the table with their faces downward.
1907 J. Tyndall in A. L. Draper Self Culture for Young People VI. 270 These cards are, double-blank, six-one, five-two, and four-three.
2017 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 24 Jan. a4/1 I was down to two of the worst cards I'd ever held in domino history, namely double-five and double-blank.
2. In various figurative uses arising from card games, esp. denoting something that may be useful in obtaining one's objective, or a person who can be called upon to support one's case. Chiefly with modifying adjective, as good, safe, strong, etc. See also cooling card n., facing-card, leading card n. 1, loose card, and to play one's best card.Recorded earliest in sure card n. at sure adj., adv., and int. Compounds 2.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > [noun] > useful thing
beautya1425
utility?1483
card?1562
usefuls1649
utile1685
practicality1845
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > [noun] > useful person
card?1562
availer1598
utensil1678
good-for-something1740
?1562 Thersytes sig. E.i Nowe thys is a sure carde, nowe I maye well saye That a cowarde crakinge here I dyd fynde.
1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. I1 Here's Caualiero Bowyer, Core and Nod..sound Cards.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. xlvii. 125 The Bishop..had formerly no other Cards to shew but that of the Canon.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. 190 Is this the Service I am to expect from you, Paul! I must turn a new Card.
1763 F. Brooke Hist. Lady Julia Mandeville I. 46 Poor fellow! I pity him; but marriage is his only card.
1812 J. Bellingham in Examiner 25 May 336/1 I have been called upon to play an anxious card in life.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. xiv. 358 No card seemed to turn up favourable to the royal cause.
1901 G. C. Bruce New Masks Old Faces 149 Jealousy's a risky card to play.
1974 Fergus Falls (Minnesota) Daily Jrnl. 8 Aug. 10/1 All of Mother Nature's conditions were just right and she sure played her cards in my favor.
2019 Telegraph (Nexis) 2 Nov. The economy is probably her party's strongest card. It is certainly the opposition's weakest.
3. colloquial (originally slang).
a. With modifying adjective (as knowing, rum, etc.): a person (esp. a man) regarded as having the specified character or quality. Cf. cove n.2, customer n. 6. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > oddness > odd person
singularist1593
singularitan1615
queer fellow1712
oddity1731
unaccountable1748
character1773
rum1788
eccentric1832
card1835
card1853
hard case1892
queer shot1900
rummy1909
hard thing1918
hardshot1924
quaint1939
odd bod1942
oddball1943
joker in the pack1963
quirky1975
1835 C. Dickens in Bell's Life in London 18 Oct. Mr. Thomas Potter, whose great aim it was to be considered as a ‘knowing card’,..conducted himself in a very different manner.
1853 Colburn's United Service Mag. Mar. 350 John Vee was a queer card that turned up at the corner of every street in the town.
1860 Once a Week 28 Apr. 386/2 You are an ungrateful card, and no mistake.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule x. 157 You are the most romantic card I know.
1891 J. Newman Scamping Tricks & Odd Knowl. xii. 100 He was the sharpest card on the river, so I was told, for getting ‘extras’ out of dredging.
1907 Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches 24 38 But I say, George, what a downy card you are! Now, aren't you?
1949 Strand Mag. Jan. 24 Must've been a rum card, that fellow.
b. Originally: an ingenious, clever, or audacious person. In later use chiefly: an odd or eccentric person, esp. one in whom these qualities are regarded as entertaining or comical; a joker. Cf. character n. 15c.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > impudent person
bolda1400
capron hardya1477
malaperta1529
jackanapes1534
past-shame1553
saucea1556
saucy-face1566
outfacer1579
impudent1586
Jack sauce?1590
brazen-face1602
impertinence1611
impertinent1612
insolency1613
insolenta1616
brass-face1647
flapsea1652
impudence1671
bold-face1692
ironface1697
Corinthian1699
scandal-proof1699
saucy-box1702
busker1728
insolence1740
effronterist1776
pert1785
nash-gab1816
card1853
pawk1855
sass-box1856
a one1880
cockapert1881
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > practitioner
japer1362
practiser1545
practitioner1560
amuser1583
fopper1659
hummer1763
prankster1811
hoaxer1814
puck1823
practical joker1830
pranking1852
card1853
leg-puller1887
kidder1888
pranker1890
codologist1897
spoofer1914
wind-up artist1984
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > oddness > odd person
singularist1593
singularitan1615
queer fellow1712
oddity1731
unaccountable1748
character1773
rum1788
eccentric1832
card1835
card1853
hard case1892
queer shot1900
rummy1909
hard thing1918
hardshot1924
quaint1939
odd bod1942
oddball1943
joker in the pack1963
quirky1975
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House lxii. 596 You know what a card Krook was for buying all manner of old pieces of furniter.
1905 A. Bennett Tales of Five Towns i. 9 It would be an immense, an unparalleled farce..the crown of his reputation as a card.
1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row xxi. 303 ‘What the Midlanders call “a card”.’ ‘What's that?’ ‘An original, a person.’
1942 ‘W. B. Johnson’ Widening Stain (1943) iii. 34 That old Witch-Hammer was really quite a card.
2020 Sunday Express 12 Jan. 6/1 He finally emerged as a brave and committed soldier and, out meeting the public, a bit of a card.
II. Senses relating to maps or charts.
†4. A map or chart; spec. a nautical chart. Cf. chart n. 1.Obsolete.In early use also frequently in card of the sea. See also sea-card n. 1, mariner's card n.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun]
mapa1527
carda1532
card of the sea1555
chard?a1560
chart?a1560
draught1580
the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > chart
shipman's card1530
carda1532
chard?a1560
sea-card?a1560
mariner's card1594
seaman card1636
chart1696
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > chart
shipman's card1530
carda1532
card of the sea1555
chard?a1560
sea-card?a1560
mariner's card1594
seaman card1636
sea-chart1669
chart1696
a1532 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Diuers Voy. (1582) sig. B4v A little Mappe or Carde of the worlde.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. x. f. 85v Manye of those mappes which are commonly cauled the shipmans cardes, or cardes of the sea [L. quas nautae chartas uocant nauigatorias].
1569 G. Campion Let. 14 Feb. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1599) II. i. 116 The places are Modon, and Coron, which are but twelue miles distant the one from the other, and do stand in our way to Chio, as you may plainly see by the Card.
1591 Ld. Burghley Let. 24 Sept. in H. Unton Corr. (1847) 88 The best particular cardes of Normandie and Picardie.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 107 + 4 Hee is the card or kalender of gentry.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine v. xx. 183 Such an Elbow appears not in the late Cardes of this Countrey.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cccx, in Poems (1878) III. 214 Harry..by his Card knew how farr on His Voyage he might be.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Card, a Sea-Map..Vulgarly so called for Chart.
1832 Amer. Monthly Rev. Apr. 275 Sebastian Cabot, on his return from his first voyage, published a map or card of his discovery.
5.
a. A disk of stiff paper or similar material marked with the 32 principal bearings, forming the indicator in a magnetic compass; = compass-card n.Originally and chiefly with reference to the maritime compass, in which the card is attached to a magnetized needle and is mounted so as to rotate freely. Later examples often have the 360 degrees of the circle marked around their circumference, in addition to the principal bearings or points of the compass.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > compass > card of
compass rosea1527
fly?a1560
card1561
sea-carda1625
chart1753
compass-card1874
1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation iii. f. lvi And so the Carde [Sp. la carta] shal haue two descriptions. The one that aunswereth to the position, shalbe of the wyndes, whiche the Mariners call lynes or poyntes of the compasse.
?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea xxiii. f. 62v The ende of the wyers vnder the carde of the compasse should stande foure or fiue degrees vnto the Eastwards of the Flouredeluce.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 16 All the Quarters that they know, I' th' Ship-mans Card . View more context for this quotation
1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 154 What Seaman casts away his Carde beause it hath four and twenty points of Compasse?
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 98 On Life's vast Ocean diversely we sail, Reason the Card, but Passion is the Gale.
1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 133 At noon it [sc. the Scilly light-house] bore directly north by true card.
1839 Saturday Mag. Mar. (Suppl.) 125/1 A needle suspended at the centre of the card, and enclosed in a box, is used in surveying.
1922 C. F. Chapman Piloting, Seamanship & Small Boat Handling 51/1 Compasses are fitted with a gimball ring to keep the bowl and card level under any circumstance.
2002 Navigator's Compass in coastalnavigation.com 20 Jan. (accessed 6 Apr. 2020) The card and its magnets stay aligned with magnetic north as the boat turns.
†b. figurative and in figurative contexts. Something likened to a compass card, esp. in providing moral or spiritual direction, or in being a guiding principle. Obsolete.Frequently in card and compass.
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1571 N. Bourman Epytaphe I. Iuell (single sheet) Whom neither benefite of wealth, could cause to wander froe The Compasse of the heauenly Card, his Dutie to bestowe.
1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xxix. 382 Let us..carefully steere by the Card of God's word.
1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned i. iv. 94 He vagrant-like, wandered on in a course of dissoluteness, having now lost all card and compass to direct him.
1786 R. Burns Poems 172 Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent Lore.
1879 Victoria Mag. May 79 She was utterly without the card and compass of discipline.
1912 Life Swami Vivekananda I. xxv. 174 They [sc. his ideas] furnished him with the card and compass of his life.
c. to speak by the card: to talk carefully and precisely; to report information accurately.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > be clear [verb (intransitive)] > express oneself precisely
to speak by the card1604
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 134 We must speake by the card, or equiuocation will vndoo vs. View more context for this quotation
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues III. 389 I speak by the card in order to avoid entanglements of words.
1908 Pella (Iowa) Chron. 2 July 2/3 Our information is correct and we are speaking by the card.
2012 @duzupis 1 July in twitter.com (accessed 7 Apr. 2020) The only reason I insist upon speaking by the card in casual conversation is in case that conversation happens to be with a Brit.
III. A piece of stiff paper or similar material, and related senses.
6.
a. A flat piece of thick, stiff paper, pasteboard, or thin cardboard, usually rectangular in shape, used as a surface to write, paint, or draw on, or for other purposes.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [noun] > cardboard
cardc1545
chart1704
cardpaper1707
cardboard1789
c1545 R. Copland tr. P. Tommai Art of Memory sig. Avv Whan any hath the carde or scroll I wyll shewe the maner to wryt in the same.
1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 5 There hung the..card Whear good, and bad, and life, and death were painted.
1724 J. Swift Some Observ. Wood's Half-pence 18 If we are driven to Brown's Expedient of a Sealed Card.
1760 Public Ledger 3 May 386/4 (advt.) In order that the Publick may distinguish the Inventor's Goods from any other, he will write his Name on a Card affixed to every Piece.
1829 R. Southey Epist. to A. Cunningham in A. Cunningham Anniversary 20 Thou..didst wilfully..Publish upon a card, as Robert Southey's, A face..just as like Tom Fool's.
1888 N.E.D. at Card Mod. Cards bearing the names of the prize-winners are affixed to the successful exhibits.
1974 F. C. Fowler Reading Games Upper & Middle Grades 191 Additional words relating to driving skills may also be printed on cards for developing a sight vocabulary.
2016 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 Jan. a4 The woman read from a card and mispronounced the first two names she mentioned.
b. U.S. A flat rectangular slab of a baked confection (esp. gingerbread), cut or broken into pieces for eating. Now rare.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > thin plate or layer > like a card
card1821
1821 A. Wetmore Pedlar ii. iv. 17 I'll read the Invoice. [stage direction: reads] Three wool hats—One case of family medicines..—four and a half cards of ginger-bread.
1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 103 He distributed..a plug of tobacco there, or a card of town gingerbread to the little snow-balls.
1894 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 24 Nov. 13/3 (advt.) Call at Peadon's and get a five or ten cent card of biscuit, we have them warm every day at 8 o'clock.
1915 Amer. Cookery Dec. 387/2 Cut into cards, about the size of post-cards, and bake in medium oven.
1932 Berkshire County Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 12 Oct. 10/1 Girls busied themselves with the baking of three cards of gingerbread.
7.
a. A small sheet of paper or card (sense 9) on which a message may be written; (in later use) spec. a postcard. Formerly also: a short letter, note, or message (obsolete).See also correspondence card n., letter card n. 2, postcard n.
This use appears to originate in the practice of writing private messages on the backs of playing cards, which could be passed discreetly in social situations. Blank cards intended for notes appear to have originated in the early 18th cent.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > card > [noun]
card1596
message card1746
birthday card1797
view card1822
acceptance1837
Easter card1842
wedding-cards1847
comic1860
postcard1869
letter card1870
postal card1870
pc1876
postal1877
note-card1884
photo card1890
greeting-card1898
picture postcard1899
seaside postcard1955
sympathy card1967
1596 P. Colse Penelopes Complaint sig. D4v With scoffing cardes she doth vs load.
1746 H. Walpole in Museum 12 Apr. 48 One of the latest and most accepted Fashions is the sending Cards and Notes.
1781 W. Cowper Let. 4 Oct. (1979) I. 526 Sending Johnson a Copy of my productions..accompanied with a handsome card.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 384 Never at his books Or with his pen, save when he scrawls a card.
1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 289 Hume was the friend of Walpole, and had given Rousseau a card of introduction to him.
1965 Daily Express 23 July 11/2 Don't forget..to send us a card telling us why you are enjoying your holiday.
2019 @KrazehKai 19 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 14 Apr. 2020) I always include a card to remind customers to peel off the plastic so I hope that helps too!
b. A formal written invitation to a social event such as a party or a ball. Now rare and historical.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > document which permits or authorizes > ticket
ticket1673
card1749
brief1860
ducket1871
rover1934
society > leisure > social event > hospitality > invitation > [noun] > an invitation
invitation1615
card1749
1749 E. Haywood Epist. for Ladies I. i. v. 29 She sent a Card inviting me to make one at an Assembly she has lately established for Gaming.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 140 I can't resist the curiosity I have to know if you received a card on this occasion?
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI lxix. 98 All country gentlemen..May drop in without cards.
1876 World No. 114. 17 Astonished by an invitation to dinner, which she declines, and then by cards for parties, which she refuses.
1984 F. Solomon & B. Litvinoff Woman's Way vi. 121 She would send a card inviting you for one o'clock, and you would then reply.
c. A sheet of paper or card, now typically folded in half, having a decorative design on the front and bearing an appropriate greeting, designed to be signed (frequently with a short personal message) and sent or given as an expression of good wishes on a particular occasion (often specified by a preceding noun, as e.g. Easter card, New Year card, Mother's Day card, Thank you card); a greetings card.See also birthday card n., Christmas card n. 2, greeting-card n., Valentine card.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > card > [noun]
card1596
message card1746
birthday card1797
view card1822
acceptance1837
Easter card1842
wedding-cards1847
comic1860
postcard1869
letter card1870
postal card1870
pc1876
postal1877
note-card1884
photo card1890
greeting-card1898
picture postcard1899
seaside postcard1955
sympathy card1967
1842 W. Howitt Rural & Domest. Life Germany 177 People..present those ornamental cards of which I have spoken under Christmas, and which have all kinds of wishes, to suit all kinds of tastes and circumstances.
1852 New-York Daily Times 13 Feb. A splendid assortment of Lace Papers, Lace and Embossed Envelopes, Valentine Cards.
1883 Sat. Rev. 1 Dec. 711/1 Many of the cards..are spoilt by the flowers being treated neither conventionally, pictorially, nor botanically, but in a style which may..be described as Christmas Cardy.
1958 L. H. Burke et al. With this Ring 112 She sent him a card on his birthday signed, ‘With all our love, Melinda and Jean.’
2004 New Yorker 19 Apr. 113 Men are far more likely to send a card on Mother's Day than they are at most other times.
8.
a. A piece of cardboard or pasteboard having a product or set of items (esp. lace, braid, or buttons) attached for sale; (also) a length of such a product or set of such items sold on a card. Chiefly with of.
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1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. D Tis a carde of lace sir, which he bought me.
1653 Edinb. Test. LXVII. f. 2, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Four cairds of buttounes.
1777 Daily Advertiser 13 June Yesterday a Lad was committed to a Wood-Street Compter by the Lord-Mayor, charged with stealing a Card of Lace out of a Haberdasher's Shop in Fleet Street.
1897 M. E. Wilkins Pot of Gold 227 I'll buy you a whole card of peppermints.
1964 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 10 May 29/4 As a test, I put a whole card of rickrack into hot water for a few minutes, then hung it over my shower rod.
2014 @swardy54 29 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 17 Dec. 2020) I was quite good while out shopping apart from the stitch holders I only bought 3 balls of yarn and one card of buttons.
b. A piece of cardboard, pasteboard, or other stiff material, sometimes folded to form a portfolio, having a sample of a product such as cloth, wallpaper, or paint attached to be shown to customers. Now rare.See also showcard n. 1, pattern card n. 1, sample card n.
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1888 A. Sansone Dyeing I. xi. 230 All the samples, except one, on this card are due to Messrs. Bartolotti and Corti, of Como.
1936 Industr. Standardization 7 259/2 Cards show samples of different grades of textiles.
2007 Business Wire 8 Mar. Each card is identified with four Pantone Color name and number strips.
9. Thick, stiff, durable paper, as used to make greetings cards, formal invitations, or business cards. Also (esp. in early use): thin board made of paper pulp or layers of paper pressed together; pasteboard or cardboard. Cf. cardstock n.2See also cardboard n.2, cardpaper n.
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1612 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1870) II. 375 Paiper, caird, cames, stiffing, and all uther sort of gross wairs.
1658 J. Collins Sector on Quadrant 119 At one end of a piece of Card may be wrote down the sum of the Logarithmical Cosines of the Latitude and Declination.
1757 J. Hill Eden 534/2 After this a Paper or Card Collar may be placed under the Petals.
1882 J. Lukin Picture Frame Making vii. 63 You can fold a bit of thin card down the middle and cut out the form with a pair of scissors.
1929 Aberdeen Weekly Jrnl. 6 Apr. 4/4 Here is a very simple toy that can be made with odds and ends of card.
2007 Times 23 Nov. (Bricks & Mortar section) 26/1 The gift box is made from card and can be reused every year, so it's environmentally friendly too.
10. A small card printed or inscribed with a person's or couple's name and (often) address or other contact details, used esp. for presenting to social or (now more commonly) business acquaintances. Now usually with prefixed noun indicating the special purpose, as business card n., calling card n., visiting card n., wedding-cards n.Recorded earliest in to leave a card.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > [noun] > paper or disc
card1749
papers1796
legitimation1870
dog tag1882
identity papers1889
identity certificate1891
identification tag1893
identity card1900
identification1906
identity disc1907
identification disc1914
disca1918
meat ticket1919
warrant card1920
carte d'identité1923
ID1937
ID card1937
reference book1952
society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > visiting card
ticket1673
card1749
visiting-ticket1770
visiting card1782
calling card1808
pasteboard1837
1749 Ballad to Tune of Chevy Chase 4 And lest they should be walking out, Pray for them leave A Card.
1750 Adventures Mr. Loveill II. xviii. 230 Sir T—— sent his Card the next Morning to Lord B——: It was with infinite Pleasure that his Lordship..heard of his being at Bath.
?1790 Advt. (single sheet) J. Rozea, Letter-Press & Copper-Plate Printer..Begs Leave to inform Tradesmen in general, that he prints Cards..at his first established low Prices of Two Shillings, 100. Eight Shillings, 500.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxviii. 106 Our first cards were to Carabas House.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits vi. 110 If he [sc. an Englishman] give you his private address on a card, it is like an avowal of friendship.
1891 Overland Monthly Sept. 261/1 He was told by the servant that Mrs Dilway was indisposed..He sent up his card and went away.
1996 J. Morgan Debrett's New Guide to Etiquette (2001) viii. 168 A woman's card usually measures two and an eighth by three and a half inches.
2020 M. Goldberg Knockout Networking xi. 171 This seems to be very common with realtors. ‘Here's my card. Think of me when you're looking to list your home!’
11. A notice published in a newspaper or magazine, containing a short statement, request, or explanation. Now chiefly North American. Now rare.
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society > communication > information > intimation or making known > [noun]
warningc1386
knowinga1398
notice1415
notification1415
advisement?a1425
advertisement1426
intimation1442
advertising1525
note1597
card1761
1761 Public Ledger 5 Dec. 1163/1 (advt.) A Card to the Ladies. Mr. Gibson's wonderful Composition..will remove by the Roots, the most strong Hair.
1788 Gen. Evening Post (London) 1–3 Jan. 2/3 A Card. Dr. Norris..desires to inform the public [etc.].
1887 Christian Leader 21 July 462 When news reached the saloon keepers that a prohibitory law had been passed, they published the following card: ‘To all prohibitionists,’ etc.
1945 Bristol (New Hampsh.) Enterprise 15 Feb. 4/1 (advt.) Births, marriage and death notices inserted free. Card of thanks, $1.00.
12. A rectangular piece of card or pasteboard bearing an advertisement, intended for display in a shop or other public place.See also window card n., showcard n. 2, etc.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > placarding, postering, or billing > a placard, notice, or bill
bill1480
placard1560
ticket1567
pancart1577
affix1589
si quis1597
affiche1602
placketa1605
programme1633
programmaa1661
advertisement1692
clap-bill1699
handbill1718
daybill1731
show bill?a1750
notice1766
play-card1778
card1787
posting bill1788
poster1818
sticker1862
flyer1889
paper1896
1787 J. Cobb First Floor i. 11 The card in your shop-window informed me, Madam, that you have a First Floor to let.
1823 Ladies' Monthly Museum Feb. 113 At a shopkeeper's window, while casting a leer On a card, he saw ‘Blankets at half price sold here’.
1917 A. Raymond Intimate Prussia 126 Lottie Woytsch..was surreptitiously decorated from behind by a large card advertising a well-known brand of English baby-food.
2006 Daily Express 6 July 43/3 I put an ad in the local paper and stuck up a card in the newsagent's window—‘Three bags of toys, books, and ladies' clothes for sale’.
13.
a. A small printed card issued to members of a club, society, or association and used as evidence of their membership.Frequently with modifier, as in library card n., loyalty card n., membership card n., press card n., etc.
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1787 Rules Subscription Libr. at Stamford 10 Each Subscriber, at the time of paying his subscription, shall have a printed card, which, if required, must be shewn to the Librarian, when a book is sent for.
1949 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 28 Sept. 11/2 Some affairs will be absolutely free to club members, but you must show your card.
2012 M. Matson Second Chance Summer (e-book ed.) I stopped into the tiny Lake Phoenix library, renewed my card, and checked out three paperback mysteries.
b. A card issued to a delegate at a trade union meeting or congress representing a certain number of union members on whose behalf the delegate is entitled to vote. Cf. card vote n.
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society > occupation and work > working > association of employers or employees > [noun] > trade union > union card
union card1852
working card1855
card1890
pie card1895
1890 Sat. Rev. 12 Sept. Four of five trumpery little unions might outvote one great one. To check this voting by card was established at Liverpool.
1902 35th Ann. Rep. Trades Union Congr. 85 The method of voting shall be by card, to be issued to the delegates of trade societies according to their membership, and paid for..on the principle of one card for every 1,000 members or fractional part thereof represented.
1998 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 17 Sept. Branch representatives then recorded their vote by card at a national policy council meeting.
14.
a. A ticket of admission to an exhibition, show, attraction, or other form of entertainment. Now rare and historical.
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1809 Morning Chron. 1 June (advt.) Leasehold house and land, Streatham, Surrey—To be sold... Principals only may be informed of particulars, and have cards for viewing, by applying to Winstanley and Son, Paternoster-row.
1934 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 3 Nov. 5/3 Capt. Kempson's willingness to give a second lecture will give great satisfaction to those who were unable to get cards for the first.
b. slang or colloquial. With the: the correct or ideal thing; = ticket n.1 9a. Somewhat rare.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [noun] > good thing
goodeOE
card1840
cheese1840
honey1848
casein1851
hon1896
1840 N. Carolina Standard 1 July Says he, ‘come in and take some cider’... Down sat the general and the whig. Says he, ‘old boy you're just the card’; And then he took a hearty swig But thought the cider was rather hard.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 41/1 I've got 10s. often for a greatcoat, and higher and lower,..but 10s. is about the card for a good thing.
2007 Yorks. Evening Post (Nexis) 27 Feb. Recycling project is just the card for Jessica-Lee... Jessica-Lee Mitchell, 18, has won the opportunity to sell her hand-made cards in Leeds City Art Gallery's Craft Centre.
15.
a. A piece or sheet of paper or card (sense 9) with a blank form marked or printed on it, for recording information of a particular type.See also collecting card n.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > blank form for filling in
blank1586
write-off1751
card1817
registration card1842
application1849
entry form1856
form1856
application blank1866
pro forma1928
fiche1949
1817 Missionary Reg. Nov. 474/2 In making use of this Card, the Collector..will mark the receipts of the weekly, monthly, or quarterly sums.
1947 H. F. Hammond Man. Transit & Traffic Stud. 61/1 Ask each customer to fill out a survey card.
1989 J. G. Abourezk Advise & Dissent i. 7 I went to the National Archives to locate Charlie's immigration card in the microfilm records. The few entries on the card told a fascinating story.
2020 Home Accents Today (Nexis) 1 Jan. Visitors at Forty One Madison are encouraged to fill out a card with their information and return it.
b. (a) Cricket. A printed card listing both teams in batting order, on which spectators may enter the scores in a game (cf. match card n.) (b) a printed card issued to a competitor before a sporting contest, on which that player's score (or that of the player's opponent) is to be recorded, or one held by a referee or judge for the same purpose.Cf. scorecard n. (a) at score n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > umpiring and scoring > [noun] > score > scorecard
card1849
scorecard1877
match card1901
1849 Punch 17 12/1 Paid..2d. for a Card of the Innings.
1903 A. D. Taylor Annals Lord's 111 The printing tent was introduced at Lord's, on June 26th, 1848,..and the public, for the first time, could secure a ‘correct card’ of the game.
2017 Daily Star 21 July 45/3 Without a single birdie on his card, the 26-year-old was forced to admit that Royal Birkdale left him feeling battered.
16. Sport. A programme of events scheduled at a sporting fixture, esp. a race meeting, regatta, or title match in boxing or wrestling. Cf. racecard n.
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society > leisure > sport > general equipment > [noun] > list or programme
card1823
racecard1836
correct card1882
fixture-card1886
scratching-board1891
fixture-list1905
title card1918
1823 Hampshire Chron. & Southampton Courier 25 Aug. The first race, in the card, for a Sweepstakes of 5 sovereigns each.., was won very cleverly by the Duke of Richmond's Dandizette.
1907 Daily Tel. 16 Sept. 3/6 The first race on the card for Friday having been postponed, proceedings began with the race for Mr Wilson's challenge cup and gold medal for boats over 25ft.
1962 H. Garner Silence on Shore ii. 47 There's a double main bout on the card and a tag match.
2018 Sun (Nexis) 29 July The full Goodwood card will also be broadcast on Racing UK.
17.
a. Weaving. Each of the perforated cards which encode the pattern in a jacquard loom or a knitting machine. Cf. pattern card n. 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > method of > figure weaving > loom > parts of or attachments for
tablea1400
simple1731
draw-boy1811
card1829
needle1829
witch1829
machine card1832
Jacquard apparatus1841
Jacquard1851
griff1860
dobby1878
lappet1894
witch top1897
trap-board1900
necking cord1910
1829 Trans. Soc. Encouragem. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce 47 p. xxv To Mr. Hughes have been awarded the silver Isis medal and fifteen pounds, for his improved cards for weavers of figured silks.
1859 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 143 Since 1841..scarcely a machine has been worked without the ornaments being applied by means of cards.
1923 Bull. Pennsylvania Mus. No. 78. 14 Instruction is given in the principles of the different kinds of Jacquard machines, the methods of tying them up and of cutting the cards to suit the different tie-ups.
2010 J. Sissons Knitwear 93/2 The blank areas of the card knit the main colour; the punched areas of the card knit the contrast colour.
b. Computing. A punched card, typically made of stiff paper, used in early computers and data processing machines to encode data or a program, and later to display and store a program's output. Now chiefly historical.punch card, punched card: see the first element.
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?1837 C. Babbage On Math. Powers Calculating Engine in B. Randell Origins Digital Computers (1973) ii. 25 One mode of rendering permanent the results of any calculations made by the engine will obviously be by making it punch on cards certain holes similar to those just described.
1888 Public Health Rep. & Papers 1887 (Amer. Public Health Assoc.) 13 217 The accompanying diagram represents a card intended for use in compiling the mortality statistics of the city of New York.
1947 Electr. Engin. 66 905/1 After a run through the multiplier, this set of cards is then ready to sort.
1966 Sci. Mission Support Extended Lunar Explor. (SID 66-957-1) (N. Amer. Aviation Inc.) 4 The organized compilation of investigations and experiments in the form of a computer card deck and associated computer program documentation will be kept up to date and used internally by NASA.
2000 Daily Herald (Chicago) 20 Nov. i. 8/2 If the paper squares—the infamous chads—are not completely detached, the computer reading the cards might miss some votes.
2003 S. Mueller Upgrading & Repairing PCs (ed. 14) i. 17 These punched-card computing machines could process 50–250 cards per minute, with each card holding up to 80-digit numbers.
18. British and Australian colloquial. In plural. Documents relating to an employee (esp. concerning tax and National Insurance) held by an employer and returned when employment ceases; now chiefly in phrases referring to dismissal from employment, as to get one's cards: to be dismissed from one's position of employment or office, to give (a person) their cards: to dismiss or discharge a person from employment. colloquial.Originally used in the U.K. with reference to cards on which employers recorded contributions paid in compliance with the National Insurance Act 1911, which enabled employees to prove their entitlement to sickness and unemployment benefit.
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society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > employee's documents
union card1852
working card1855
work card1878
pie card1895
card1913
1913 H. B. Samuel in F. W. Raffety Mod. Business Pract. VIII. App. No. 4. 143/2 The quarterly stamping arrangement is only applicable to the cards of employees who have agreed with the employer to deposit their cards with him.
1921 National Insurance (Unemployment) Acts: Unemployment insurance: Decisions respecting Claims IV. 53 The foreman..told him that if he ‘was not satisfied with the work he could get his cards’. The applicant took this remark to mean that he was discharged.
1958 ‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock 51 Wouldn't surprise me to know he'd helped himself from the till, and that's why they gave him his cards.
2013 Daily Express 3 Oct. 23/5 As there are 760 eligible members of our House of Lords how much would we save if they were all suddenly given their cards?
19. A card (sense 6a) issued by an organization authorizing a named person to draw on its account or to make purchases on credit; (in later use) spec. a flat rectangular piece of stiff plastic issued by banks and other institutions and designed to fit into a wallet or purse, having information embossed or encoded in a magnetic strip or (later) a microchip, and used chiefly for making transactions, obtaining credit, guaranteeing cheques, or withdrawing money from cashpoints.See also bank card n., cashcard n., charge card n., cheque card n., credit card n., debit card n., etc.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit documents > credit card
credit card1888
bank card1947
card1950
American Express1958
Amex1958
charge card1962
banker's card1966
Barclaycard1966
cheque card1966
Master Charge1966
gold card1970
asset card1975
debit card1975
visa1976
affinity card1979
master card1979
smart card1980
phonecard1981
key card1985
Connect1987
Switch card1988
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > cheques and drafts > [noun] > credit card
credit card1888
plastic card1939
bank card1947
card1950
banker's card1966
Barclaycard1966
plastic money1969
plastic1975
key card1985
1950 N.Y. Times 26 Sept. (Late City ed.) 27/2 (advt.) Yes, your Diners' Club Card is a master credit card at these, and one hundred other superb eating places.
1959 Newsweek 28 Sept. 100 Since last Oct. 1, more than 700,000 persons have signed up for the little plastic American Express cards which are now accepted at 37,000 participating establishments.
1982 Daily Tel. 28 Sept. 8/1 British Telecom is increasing the number of public call boxes using plastic cards instead of coins.
1984 S. Bellow Him with his Foot in his Mouth 20 Walish, after computing interest and service charges to the fourth decimal, cut up Reg's cards.
2009 Independent 22 Apr. (Life section) 11 (heading) Paying by card has never been easier.
20. Electronics and Computing. A circuit board that can be inserted in a computer or electronic device to add extra functionality or storage.See also expansion card n., memory card n. (b) at memory n. Compounds 2, SD card n., SIM card, sound card n. (b) at sound n.3 Additions.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > electronic component, circuitry
card1956
circuit board1957
daughter card1964
daughterboard1965
motherboard1965
backplane1972
mainboard1977
PCB1977
board1979
mobo1993
1956 Automatic Control July 65/1 Designed to operate in either air or ground systems, the coders circuit, including solid state devices, is mounted on circuit plug-in cards.
1986 What Micro? Nov. 37/3 At the moment there are only two cards available to fit these expansion slots; an RS232 interface board..and a mouse interface/clock board are available for £69 each.
2001 PC Mag. 13 Nov. 76/2 PC Cards, formerly known as PCMCIA cards, were originally designed as storage cards for notebooks, and they quickly evolved to work with PDAs, digital cameras, and other devices.
21. Sport. A coloured piece of card or (now esp.) plastic, typically slightly larger than a playing card, shown by a referee to a player to indicate that he or she has been cautioned, dismissed, etc. Hence also: the caution, dismissal, etc., signified by such a card.Often with preceding element specifying the colour. Different colours are used across various sports, indicating different penalties, but yellow and red are the most frequently seen; cf. yellow card n. 3, red card n. 1. Such cards can sometimes be shown to coaches and team officials as well as players.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > card shown to warn player
card1969
yellow card1969
yellow1978
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > card shown to send player off field
card1969
red card1969
red1976
1969 Guardian 13 June 18/6 A proposal for referees to carry coloured cards to show players should remove all confusion about referee's decisions.
1999 Spark Feb. 31/4 Young hacked down the UEA centre-forward giving away a penalty flick, yet despite his earlier green card he stayed on the pitch.
2018 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 30 Dec. (Sport section) 8 Bassett was..lucky not to have received a card for a collision that upended Harlequins full-back Mike Brown.

Phrases

†P1. card of ten: a playing card worth ten points (the value of the lowest-scoring cards in the game of primero); used in various expressions relating to bluffing, bravado, and effrontery, as in to face with a card of ten (also to face (something) out with a card of ten and variants): to bluff, to brazen it out. Also figurative: something which lessens a person's hope of success (cf. cooling card n.). Obsolete.Direct evidence for a literal sense appears to be lacking, but is implied by the early quotations. For discussion of the origin of these uses see Notes & Queries (1966) Nov. 403–7.
After the 17th cent. only attested in echoes of or references to Shakespeare (cf. quot. a1616).
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > bluster [verb (intransitive)]
face1440
brace1447
ruffle1484
puff1490
to face (something) out with a card of ten?1499
to face with a card of ten?1499
cock1542
to brave it1549
roist1563
huff1598
swagger1600
ruff1602
tear1602
bouncec1626
to bravade the street1634
brustle1648
hector1661
roister1663
huffle1673
ding1679
fluster1698
bully1733
to bluster like bull-beef1785
swell1795
buck1880
swashbuckle1897
loudmouth1931
?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Bij Fyrste pycke a quarell & fall oute with hym then And soo outface hym with a carde of ten.
?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xix. sig. E6 He shal haue fauor for his masters sake, or els bragg it owt with a carde of x.
1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. Hiij Now face out your matter with a carde of tenne.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 50 All louers (hee onelye excepted) are cooled with a carde of tenne, or rather fooled with a vayne toye.
1600 N. Breton Pasquils Mad-cap (1626) sig. D ijv He that doth bring men into bonds of dept, And feede their humours with a Card of Tenne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 401 A vengeance on your crafty withered hide, Yet I haue fac'd it with a card of ten.
1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 106 As aces, duizes, cards o'ten, to face it Out, i'the game, which all the world is.
1859 John Bull & Britannia 26 July 472/1 They found themselves faced with ‘a card of ten’. At once 18,000 men were concentrated on the capital. The National Guard were compelled to yield to superior discipline and numbers.
P2. house of cards.
a. A precarious structure built by balancing playing cards on their edges in a series of tiers, typically forming a pyramid. Frequently in similative phrases as the type of something very unstable or subject to imminent collapse, as in to collapse like a house of cards, to come down like a house of cards. Cf. card house n., card castle n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others
spurc1450
cock1608
turnel1621
corala1625
house of cardsa1625
Jack-in-the-box1659
(Prince) Rupert's Drops1662
sucker1681
whirligig1686
playbook1694
card house1733
snapper1788
card castle1792
Aaron's bells?1795
Noah's Ark1807
Jacob's ladder1820
cat-stairs1825
daisy chain1841
beanbag1861
playboat1865
piñata1868
teething ring1872
weet-weet1878
tumble-over1883
water cracker1887
jumping-bean1889
play money1894
serpentin1894
comforter1898
pacifier1901
dummy1903
bubble water1904
yo-yo1915
paper airplane1921
snowstorm1926
titty1927
teaser1935
Slinky1948
teether1949
Mr Potato Head1952
squeeze toy1954
Frisbee1957
mobile1957
chew toy1959
water-rocket1961
Crazy Foam1965
playshop1967
war toy1973
waterball1974
pull-along1976
transformer1984
Aerobie1985
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Gv To buylde an house of chippes and cardes [L. aedificare casas], to watche the trappe for myse: To playe at euen and odde, to ryde cockhorse in chyldyshe guyse.]
a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) iii. i. 29 She sits i'th chimnie, Which is but three tiles rais'd like a house of cards.
1728 Evening Jrnl. (London) 18 Jan. 1/2 Their Schemes are blown down like a House of Cards set up by Children.
1824 Ladies' Monthly Museum July 51 How often do the projects of genius fall to the ground, like a house of cards.
1912 Wanganui (N.Z.) Herald 31 Dec. 6/2 Before many of the guests had time to escape to the garden the whole building came down like a house of cards.
2016 Financial Times 29 Aug. 16/6 Sceptical analysis warned that the industry would collapse like a house of cards if the oil and gas prices fell.
b. figurative and in figurative contexts. An insecure or unsubstantial scheme or system. Cf. card castle n.
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1711 C. Johnson Generous Husband v. 54 A Fort of Honour is but a House of Cards..Blown down by every gentle Sigh.
1860 Spectator 13 Oct. 979/1 And so the system goes on;..but when one link breaks, down comes the whole house of cards.
1969 Washington Post 30 Nov. 404 (headline) When Europe's house of cards came tumbling down.
2020 Daily Express 30 Apr. 59/1 Potentially, just one positive test could see the whole house of cards collapse.
P3. In plural.
a. Used in various figurative expressions in which an enterprise is likened to a game of cards, esp. with allusion to a person's fate, luck, or lot in life. Cf. hand n. 24c.See also cut v., deal v. 7, pack v.2 3, shuffle v. 2, trump n.2
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons) > have grounds for expecting success
to have or go in upon good cards1554
to have or go in upon good cards1606
to hold all the cards1840
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > be or seem likely [verb (intransitive)] > consider probability of
to cast or count one's cards1554
society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > reveal one's true character > one's plans or resources
to show one's cards1554
to show one's cards1567
to show one's hand1843
to put one's cards on the table1868
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)]
wendOE
divert1430
to turn one's tale1525
relent1528
revolt1540
resile?a1597
crinkle1612
to throw in (or up) one's cards1688
to box the compass1714
to turn round1808
crawfish1848
to back down1849
duff1883
back-pedal1891
punk1920
back-track1947
to back off1961
1554 J. Proctor Hist. Wyates Rebellion sig. G.viiiv One of them beinge a gentleman, beganne to shewe hys game before all the cardes were full dealed.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1196/2 Choosing rather to die in battell (if hap had so cut their cards).
a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. A6 Since thou hast all the Cardes, Within thy hands..deale thy selfe a King.
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia iii. 146 Amphialus..trusting to his Cards.
1710 Subst. of Late Conf. 3 The Cards run so much against him.
1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxii. 200 To be sent away was unpleasantly like expulsion. However, the cards were to be played in my favour.
2006 Independent 9 Feb. 17/6 On the whole the job for all of us is to do the best with the cards we are dealt.
b. to show one's cards: †to provide evidence in support of a claim one is making (Obsolete); to allow one's plans or intentions to be known. Cf. to show one's hand, to put one's cards on the table.
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > reveal one's true character > one's plans or resources
to show one's cards1554
to show one's cards1567
to show one's hand1843
to put one's cards on the table1868
1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast iii. v. f. 217 Proue this... Shew your cardes then, M. Horne.
1871 W. S. Gilbert Palace of Truth ii. 29 One who shows her cards so candidly.
2019 Sun (Nexis) 30 Nov. Mullins is never one to give too many plans away, sensibly waiting until the last minute to show his cards.
c. †to cast or count one's cards: to assess one's chance of success, take stock of one's position.
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1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians xviii. f. 135 When we haue cast our cardes [Fr. tout conté & rabatu], we must be fayn to come to this poynt, that no man can atteyne to lyfe by his owne purchace or earning.
c1600 Return: 1st Pt. iv. i, in Three Parnassus Plays (1949) 199 Come let vs caste our cards before wee goe, Summon our losses if wee nere returne, Cross our oulde cares, and turne the leafe anew.
1664 Floddan Field iv. 32 Our Cards we had both need to count and cast.
d. †to have or go in upon good cards and variants: to have good grounds for expecting success.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons) > have grounds for expecting success
to have or go in upon good cards1554
to have or go in upon good cards1606
to hold all the cards1840
1606 No-body & Some-body sig. H4v Corn. Now No-body, what can you say to this. Clo. My M. hath good cards, on his side Ile warant him.
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §155. 114 There being nothing unwritten, which can goe in upon halfe so faire cards.
1841 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 262/1 Thus was our government granted by chance some good cards to play for the recovery of their own and the country's reputation.
2019 FD Wire (Nexis) 30 Jan. We are starting 2019 with some very good cards.
e. to throw in (or up) one's cards and variants: (in a game of cards) to retire from a game or hand, to fold; (hence) to give up a contest or struggle; to abandon a project; to admit defeat. Cf. to throw in one's hand at throw v.1 Phrasal verbs, to throw up one's hand, to throw in the towel.In early use often as part of an extended metaphor, as in †to throw up one's cards before one has lost the game: to give up while there is still a chance of success.
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1611 E. Bunny Of Head-Corner-Stone 558 When hee had done, hee liked so ill of his game then, that hee cast vp his cards, and got him away as fast as hee could, a sorrowfull man.
1635 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge (new ed.) xxiv. 509 Pont Chausey presently throwes up the Cards.
1688 W. Darrel Vindic. St. Ignatius 18 If I cannot oppose more weighty Reasons to the contrary, I'll fling up my Cards.
1705 C. Cibber Careless Husband v. vi. 63 How now, my Lord! What! throw up your Cards before you have lost the Game?
1857 Graham's Amer. Monthly Mag. June 559/2 A late philosopher says that however desperate the game may be ‘never throw up your cards’.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xvi. 198 He..threw up his cards and forswore his game for that time and always.
1917 Sat. Evening Post 17 May 24/1 The lumberman..finally withdrew the stack of chips in his hands and threw up his cards with a curse.
1942 Glass Packer Jan. 26/2 Don't you make every effort to see what you can make that the consumer does want, before you throw in your cards?
2015 Phil's Stock World (Nexis) 30 May You still have to know when it's time to throw in the cards and walk away.
f. to put one's cards on the table and variants: to allow one's plans or intentions to be known; to be completely candid. Cf. to show one's hand, to show one's cards. Also †to play (with) one's cards on the table: to be open and honest in dealing with others. Hence elliptically: cards on the table.
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1830 Observer 6 Dec. They will ‘play their cards on the table’—will proceed in an open, straight-forward course of foreign policy.
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. iii. 176 Come, cards on table; was it true or false?
1907 E. P. Oppenheim Secret viii. 55 I began to think that I had been rash to lay my cards upon the table.
1914 G. B. Shaw Fanny's Last Play iii, in Misalliance 198 Tramps are often shameless; but theyre never sincere. Swells—if I may use that convenient name for the upper classes—play much more with their cards on the table.
1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 195 He seems to put his cards on the table and to be saying in the friendliest way: ‘That's my opinion. What's yours?’
1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xvi. 155 There is no reason why we should put all our cards on the table.
2020 @JohnSoros2 27 May in twitter.com (accessed 2 June 2020) He needs to put his cards on the table and finally show some proof.
g. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). he (she, etc.) can give cards and spades and variants: used to suggest that a person, organization, etc., is so far superior to an opponent or rival that even a significant handicap would not bridge the gap between them.Apparently alluding to the scoring system in the card game cassino (cassino n.).
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1861 J. T. Booth Jrnl. in Another Day in Lincoln's Army (2007) 94 I believe Colonel Crook could give cards and spades and then learn them something.
1887 Daily Amer. (Nashville) 31 July 8/4 Jones is now batting terrifically hard and fielding superbly... He can give Nicol or Tebeau cards and spades in the game and then beat them out.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 40/2 There were..extra-efficient steelmakers, like Carnegie, whose organizations, built up through forty years of efficiency, could give cards and spades to any and all rivals.
2019 @npetrikov 14 May in twitter.com (accessed 22 Apr. 2020) I thought Warren..was a jackass, but his City Council can give him cards and spades in the jackassery department.
h. to hold all the cards: see hold v. Additions. to play one's cards close to one's chest: see chest n.1 9c. to play one's cards right (also well, badly, etc.): see play v. 19b(a).
P4. In phrases showing idiomatic uses in combination with play v. 19b.
a. to play one's last card: to use one's last remaining strategy or resource in attempting to achieve an objective, all others having been exhausted.
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1648 R. Wilkinson Saints Trav. Canaan 77 How many under a state of flashes (which I may say is almost the last Carde Satan can play in a soule to deceive him in his transformings) doe live in most great joy.
1710 Brit. Apollo 15–17 Feb. Don Gimcrack his last Card has plaid.
1870 H. S. Holland Impressions Ammergau Passion-Play 14 Driven to desperation, they play their last card and call in the rabble.
1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. iii. 96 Mrs. Middleton played her last card, ‘I know, children,’ she said, ‘the Vicar is hungry, that is what it is.’
2015 Daily Independent (Lagos) (Nexis) 11 Feb. The president played his last card: convoke a National Council of State meeting.
b. to play one's best card: to use the most effective strategy or resource one has in attempting to achieve one's objective.
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1715 T. D'Urfey in Pill to purge State-melancholy 115 O Lewis, at last, thou hast play'd thy best Card.
1844 Morning Post 25 Mar. 2/3 We really believe, that in bringing out Mr. Cardwell upon the occasion..the Ministers played their best card.
1920 M. Webb House in Dormer Forest xx. 252 ‘If you will give up Michael,’ said Catherine, returning to her point and playing her best card, ‘I will give him up, too.’
2005 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 23 June. 24 The threat of an Asian walkout was probably Japan's best card to play for a better deal.
c. to play (also use) the —— card and variants: (originally) to introduce a specified issue or topic in the hope of gaining sympathy or political advantage, by appealing to the sentiments or prejudices of one's audience; (in later use also) to exploit one's membership of a specified minority or marginalized group as a means of gaining sympathy or an unfair advantage (depreciative, and chiefly used in accusations of others). Frequently as to play the race card. to play the Orange card: to appeal to a Northern Irish Protestant sentiment for political advantage.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > engage in politics [verb (intransitive)] > appeal to sentiments for advantage
to play (also use) the —— card1885
society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [verb (intransitive)] > appeal to Protestant sentiment
to play the Orange card1885
1839 Scotsman 1 June The Tories will doubtless play the card of ‘Irish misgovernment’ against Ministers.]
1885 Times 22 May 10/1 It is said that the change of intention on the part of the Cabinet is due to pressure brought to bear upon them by their Liberal friends in Ulster, who wish to play the land purchase card at the elections.
1886 R. Churchill Let. 16 Feb. in R. R. James Ld. Randolph Churchill (1959) viii. 233 I decided some time ago that if the G.O.M. went for Home Rule, the Orange card would be the one to play.
1920 H. A. Franck Roaming through W. Indies vi. 136 He played the patriotic card with unusual success. Disgruntled politicians and men of wealth who had some personal reason for wishing the occupation abolished gave him secret aid.
1955 N.Y. Times 2 May 12/5 The Russians have not played this captive-soldier card yet, but they can play it not only in their negotiations with the Germans but in the conversations that will be starting with the Japanese in London next month.
1973 Times 31 May 10 British policy toward Ireland has been paralysed by the fear that the Protestants of Ulster will play the Orange Card and fight to preserve their British tie.
1974 Observer 3 Mar. 3 Mr Powell enabled many anti-coloured voters to identify with the Conservatives (although the Tory leadership declined to play the race card) and may even have tipped the scales to Mr Heath in 1970.
1994 Daily Mail 8 June 43/2 She is not above using the race card to improve her party's chances in the forthcoming council elections.
1994 Chicago Tribune 21 July i. 4/1 Playing the race card is viewed as especially dangerous in Los Angeles, the site of Simpson's coming trial and the scene of bloody riots in 1992.
1995 Blytheville (Arkansas) Courier News 21 Mar. 4/5 About the only people who could never be accused of playing the victim card are the women who are breaking these barriers.
2020 Morning Star 25 Sept. 11/4 In 2019, a black lance-corporal..appeared on recruitment drive posters aimed at millennials, but was immediately attacked on social media by white colleagues for ‘playing the race card’ to secure career advancement.
P5. a card up (or †in) one's sleeve: a plan, idea, or advantage that is kept concealed, to be utilized if and when required. Cf. an ace up (or in) one's sleeve, to have up one's sleeve. [Originally with allusion to cheating in a game of cards.]
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare or get ready [verb (intransitive)] > be prepared or ready > for an emergency
to have in or up one's sleeve?a1513
a card up (or in) one's sleeve1656
1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 154 As there be that can pack the Cards, and yet cannot play well; so there be some that are good in canvasses and factions, that are otherwise weak men. Allow me but these Orders, and let them come with their Cards in their sleeves, or pack if they can.
1868 H. L. Williams tr. A. Dumas Count of Moret xxxviii, in Kelley's Weekly 4 Apr. 295/4 I thought it was only the Cardinal who had cards up his sleeve!
1898 Tit-Bits 23 July 3289/3 I took the precaution of having what, I believe, you sporting men call a card up my sleeve.
1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out v. 38 I have got a few cards up my sleeve. There are people who owe me money, for instance.
1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 206 It was only years later, in rooms with Jocelyn, that she guessed or suspected the possibility of another motive—the card up her sleeve she had always shut her eyes to guessing that she held.
2009 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 8 Aug. Right now he has the industry wondering if he still has a card up his sleeve.
P6. to leave one's (also a) card: to deliver or send a calling card in lieu of a formal social or business visit. Now historical.Also to leave a card on or for (a person).
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society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (transitive)] > send in name or card
to send in1748
to leave one's (also a) card1749
spit1782
to send up1884
1749 Ballad to Tune of Chevy Chase 4 And lest they should be walking out, Pray for them leave A Card.
1821 Morning Chron. 20 Oct. I can't say whether Mr. Pitt left a card on me, I did not employ him.
1857 How to Behave vi. 72 If you call on a person who is ‘engaged,’ or ‘not at home,’ leave your card.
1936 M. R. Anand Coolie v. 272 ‘Your Memsahib is no Memsahib,’ said one of the coolies. ‘No other Mem or Sahib in Simla would leave a card on her.’
2013 L. Lethbridge Servants (new ed.) ii. 29 If they were told that the lady was not at home, the visitors left cards.
P7. In phrases expressing the likelihood of future events. [Probably arising either from card games involving chance or from the practice of consulting the cards in fortune-telling (compare sense 1b), although allusion to a racecard or programme of events (compare sense 16) has also been suggested.]
a. in the cards: likely or destined to happen, probable; possible. Now chiefly North American.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [adjective]
likelya1400
seemlya1400
probable?a1425
allowablec1443
seeming?c1450
apt1528
topical1594
liking1611
suspicable1651
presumable1655
feasible1656
suspected1706
in the cards1764
on the cards1788
in the dice1844
liable1888
better-than-chance1964
1764 C. Churchill Independence 5 Bards may be Lords, but 'tis not in the cards, Play how we will, to turn Lords into Bards.
?1859 J. Brougham Metamora ii. i. 12 It is not in the cards for me to fail.
1908 Washington Post 29 Aug. 8/4 They [sc. the baseball team the Cleveland Naps] consider this their hoodoo town of the circuit, and have come to the conclusion that it is not in the cards for them to win here.
2015 Teen Vogue Nov. 116/1 India..can picture herself working..in TV or film (though from the 850,000 listens she has received on her rendition of ‘Say Something’ on SoundCloud, perhaps singing is also in the cards).
b. on the cards: likely or destined to happen, probable; possible.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > probability, likelihood > [adjective]
likelya1400
seemlya1400
probable?a1425
allowablec1443
seeming?c1450
apt1528
topical1594
liking1611
suspicable1651
presumable1655
feasible1656
suspected1706
in the cards1764
on the cards1788
in the dice1844
liable1888
better-than-chance1964
1788 J. O'Keeffe Farmer ii. ii. 22 They were all upon the Scramble for me..but, poor Things, it was'nt on the Cards—cou'dn't be.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House lvii. 554 It don't come out altogether so plain as to please me, but it's on the cards.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. iv. 52 Lest a scalade of Prag should be on the cards.
1933 Truth (Sydney) 2 Apr. 5/8 From full-back to hooker, a complete re-organisation is on the cards.
1955 A. Atkinson Exit Charlie (1957) iv. 123 It's quite on the cards that he'll call in here to see me. He usually does.
2019 Daily Star 5 Feb. 11/2 Asked if marriage was on the cards, he said: ‘That's definitely what I want.’
c. now chiefly North American. out of the cards: outside the range of probability, out of the question.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > [adjective]
unmightyOE
impossible1340
unpossiblea1382
unmightful?a1425
unfeasible1527
out of the question1607
card1813
unrealizable1832
irrealizable1853
inoperable1975
1813 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 40 It is not out of the cards that we might do more.
1991 Toronto Star (Nexis) 26 Oct. k13 Apparently, the possible deal with Ferrari is out of the cards for '92.
2004 Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois) 2 Sept. 7/3 Better than ever now, a win is certainly not out of the cards.
P8. to pull a person's card.
a. North American colloquial (now rare). To dismiss a person from a job or position; to revoke or suspend a person's membership of a union or club. Also (in early use) to pull one's card: to resign. Cf. pull v. 10b.Apparently originally with reference to a union card, membership card, or time card.
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1910 Internat. Stereotypers' & Electrotypers' Union Jrnl. July 15/1 He held down a steady sit on the ‘News’ for a month, but finally decided to pull his card and go to Denver.
1955 Decisions & Orders National Labor Relations Board (U.S.) 111 1002 Well I'm going back in there and pull your card. You are fired.
1987 T. Downey Splendid Executioner 137 Better not let your union hear about this, Svenson, they'll pull your card for sure.
b. slang (chiefly U.S., originally in the language of rap and hip-hop). To attack, beat, or kill a person; to challenge or confront; to call a person's bluff.
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1985 ‘Run-D.M.C.’ Together Forever (Krush-Groove 4) (Live) (transcribed from song) My rock is hard, you can't pull my card.
1990 N.Y. Times 27 Feb. (Late ed.) b2/4 In the neighborhood, the street wisdom similarly was that Mr. Shelton was killed to keep him from testifying. ‘Put two and two together,’ said a man... ‘You don't think God pulled his card, do you?’
1993 B. Cross It's not about Salary 33 Come talkin' that trash and we'll pull your card, knowin' nuthin' in life but to be legit, don't quote me boy cos I ain't sayin' shit.
2019 @erikonasis1313 17 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 22 Apr. 2020) He should be ashamed of himself. I hope someone in his circle has pulled his card on this.

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C1. As the second element in compounds, preceded by a numeral, in the names of card games, as in three-card monte, three-card trick, five-card stud, eight-card cribbage: see the nouns.
C2.
a. General use as a modifier (in senses 1a and 1b), as in card cheat, card party, card meeting, card play; also with participles, agent nouns and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which card expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in card cheating, card dealer, card player, card playing, etc.Cf. also card game n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > card-playing
cardsa1450
carding?a1500
card play1528
card playing1528
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > gathering where cards played
card party1791
card meeting1824
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. biiij In carde playinge he is a goode greke.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. xviii. sig. D.vii Thys they sayde dyd ease them well to put fantasies out of their heades..that ircked them to thinke of, and therefore cast it out wyth carde playe.
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper sig. A iijv What, a bishop such a cardplaier?
1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. F3 This Card-cheating..is called Batt fowling.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Cards The great Letters in our old manuscripts of 900 years ago, are apparently done by the Illuminers, after this Method of Card-making.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. xci. 266 Our hero forthwith repaired to a card assembly.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 229 Sit pupils in the school Of card-devoted time.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 164 [Johnson:] I advised Mrs. Thrale, who has no card-parties at her house, to give sweet-meats, and such good things, in an evening.
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 38 Ferdinand V...promulgated more severe laws and penalties against Card-players.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 196 He belonged..to every card-meeting of decent gentility.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack Finale 380 She..was considered quite a catch at card-parties.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 255 Most of the time which he could save..was spent in racing, cardplaying, and cockfighting.
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 153 Skittle sharps, card-cheats, ‘duffers’ and ring droppers.
1902 O. Wister Virginian iii. 31 Into my thoughts broke the voice of that card-dealer.
1919 A. E. M. Foster Auction Bridge Table Talk v. 37 Any form of gambling—card play, racing, or whatever else it may be.
1930 W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale ix. 108 I did not play well, but Mrs. Driffield had a natural card sense.
2001 Times 30 Aug. ii. 31/1 Today's deal illustrates why the pairing did so well in Brighton—a combination of bold bidding and brilliant card-play.
2001 B. Dirrane in M. Hickey Irish Days (2004) 271 My mother, God rest her, was a great card-player.
b. General use as modifier (in senses 7 and 10), as in card basket, card case, card rack, card tray, and with participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which card expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in card-exchanging, card-leaving, card-making, etc.
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1776 Daily Advertiser, 20 June (advt.) Card Dishes,..Card Racks, and sundry other Articles.
1835 F. Marryat Olla Podrida viii, in Metrop. Mag. Again drawing out his card-case.
1841 A. Bache Fire-screen p. viii To this treasury does the tasteful disposer of drawing-room decorations consign her antiquated card-baskets.
1852 Mrs. E. Twisleton Let. 1 July (1928) i. 9 Mr. Twisleton having gone out to order a cardplate for me.
1853 E. Ruskin Let. 30 Nov. in M. Lutyens Millais & Ruskins (1967) 113 Continual letter-writing and note-sending and card-leaving on every body in and around Edinburgh.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xiv. 235 Margaret took out her card-case.
1872 C. M. Yonge P's & Q's vi. 58 She began to search in the card basket.
1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors ii. 27 My card-receiver is full of most fashionable names.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 10/1 The Hague, in the opening days of the Peace Conference, was simply a mass of card-exchanging foreigners.
1906 Daily Chron. 28 Aug. 4/4 Visits, servants, dress and card-leaving—all the minor courtesies of life come under notice.
2016 @PahlaviLondon 31 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 3 June 2020) Antique German Silver Plated Card Tray.
c. General use as modifier (in sense 19), as in card debt, card fraud, card machine, card payment, card transaction, and with agent nouns, forming compounds in which card expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in card provider, card issuer, etc.Cf. also card company n., card details n., cardholder n. 3b, cardmember n., card number n.
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1980 Amer. Banker 19 May 21/1 The important aspect of the chip in card technology is that the degree of security in a semiconductor chip card appears to be far superior to other card products in the marketplace.
1985 Washington Post 30 Sept. (Business section) 22/1 MasterCard unveiled a new pilot project program..that will test the effectiveness of microchip-equipped ‘smart’ credit cards in halting the loss of millions of dollars each year in card fraud.
1992 Which? Oct. 57/3 This gives them an additional right under the Consumer Credit Act, allowing them to claim against the card issuer as well as the provider of the goods or services.
2006 Independent on Sunday 19 Nov. (Business & Money section) 16/5 Card providers offer ‘teaser’ deals to get customers interested for the first purchases, and then reduce the rate.
2018 Daily Express 13 Jan. 2/2 Although the move derives from a European Union law on card payments, Britain has gone further by including payment methods such as PayPal and Apple Pay.
2018 @lauramckeatingx 19 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 13 Jan. 2021) Was so steaming last night I was typing my phone number into the card machine instead of my pin and have now blocked my card for 24 hours.
2020 Daily Star 7 Aug. 20/3 Many like me can't buy magazines using cash as they only allow card transactions in my Hartlepool store.
C3.
card castle n. a precarious structure built by balancing playing cards on their edges in a series of tiers, typically forming a pyramid; also figurative and in figurative contexts, as the type of something elaborately constructed but unstable, insubstantial, or subject to imminent collapse (cf. house of cards at Phrases 2), or of a fanciful or foolish idea. [Compare French château des cartes (1690 in figurative use).]
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others
spurc1450
cock1608
turnel1621
corala1625
house of cardsa1625
Jack-in-the-box1659
(Prince) Rupert's Drops1662
sucker1681
whirligig1686
playbook1694
card house1733
snapper1788
card castle1792
Aaron's bells?1795
Noah's Ark1807
Jacob's ladder1820
cat-stairs1825
daisy chain1841
beanbag1861
playboat1865
piñata1868
teething ring1872
weet-weet1878
tumble-over1883
water cracker1887
jumping-bean1889
play money1894
serpentin1894
comforter1898
pacifier1901
dummy1903
bubble water1904
yo-yo1915
paper airplane1921
snowstorm1926
titty1927
teaser1935
Slinky1948
teether1949
Mr Potato Head1952
squeeze toy1954
Frisbee1957
mobile1957
chew toy1959
water-rocket1961
Crazy Foam1965
playshop1967
war toy1973
waterball1974
pull-along1976
transformer1984
Aerobie1985
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xvii. sig. Hh3v As Children oftentimes do with their Cards, when having taken a great deal of pains to build fine Castles with them, they themselves afterwards ruine them with their Breath.]
1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives VII. cxvi. 3 To anticipate is to overturn the card-castles of this puny race.
1795 Tribune 29 Apr. 89 To think of protecting the country by these castles built with cards—for card castles would be of as much importance as the castles his Grace of Richmond has planned.
1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Dec. 117 The reader..would err widely who supposed that this transcendental system of metaphysics was a mere intellectual card-castle.
1917 D. Hannay Diaz iv. 89 There could be no reasonable doubt that the utterly artificial Empire of Maximilian would be brought down like a card castle.
2019 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 12 July (First ed.) (Life & Travel section) 7 r When will the financial card castle come crashing down?
card catalogue n. a catalogue, as of books in a library, comprising a set of cards on which information has been entered, and arranged in a particular order in one or more boxes or drawers, each card typically identifying a single item; cf. card index n.
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society > communication > book > book list > [noun] > list of books in library or libraries > types of library list or catalogue
curating book1697
card catalogue1853
title catalogue1875
form-catalogue1876
shelf-catalogue1882
sheaf catalogue1902
shelf-list1910
1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 17 Sept. 3/5 Mr. Folsom produced and explained a very ingenious and useful ‘Card Catalogue’.
1878 H. Stevens (title) Photo-Bibliography, or a word on printed Card Catalogues of old rare beautiful and costly books..Six sample Cards of the proposed Titles.
1917 N. T. Ficker Industr. Cost-finding 183 A card catalogue of all gauges in the factory should be kept.
2011 Amer. Libraries July 10/1 There are still many libraries using card catalogs.
card company n. a company which issues credit cards or charge cards, a credit card provider; cf. credit card company n.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > credit documents > credit card > system or organization providing
Diners' Club1950
American Express1958
Amex1958
visa1976
switch1977
card company1987
1987 Which? Dec. 563/2 You could send the card company a post-dated cheque.
1995 Guardian 23 Sept. (Weekend Suppl.) 14/3 All the major card companies and banks are working on encryption schemes that claim various degrees of uncrackability.
2014 Daily Star Sunday 6 July 2/2 Some card companies who refunded women for the cost of their implants did not inform them they could claim personal injury compensation.
† card coney-catching n. Obsolete swindling by cheating at cards, card-sharping; cf. coney-catching n.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > [noun]
card coney-catching1592
bite1711
Greekery1823
card-sharping1840
1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. D2v Let me vse it for an excuse of our Card Conny-catching: for when we meete a Country Farmer with a ful purse, a miserable miser..we holde it a deuotion to make him a Conny, in that he is a Catterpiller to others.
card details n. the information recorded on a payment card (esp. a credit or debit card) that allows payments to be made from the cardholder's account, esp. the card number and expiry date; cf. credit card details n.
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1974 Daily News (Port Angeles, Washington) 15 Dec. 4/2 The service station would check the card details, then run it through an imprinting machine.
1985 P. A. T. Frazer Plastic & Electronic Money xi. 150 It is comparatively easy for criminals to get hold of legitimate card details, either by looking in retailers' dustbins for the carbon paper from credit card voucher sets or by getting retail staff to record the details of affluent customers' cards.
1992 Independent 25 Apr. 44/4 I informed the bank that it was apparent that my card details had been fraudulently misused.
2020 Daily Express 4 Nov. 29/2 Try unsaving your card details or turning on parental controls to stop little fingers racking up a big bill.
card file n. originally U.S. a set of cards containing data or records, arranged systematically in a particular order (esp. alphabetical) in one or more boxes or drawers; cf. card index n.
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society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > indexing > index > card index
card index1875
card file1879
1879 Libr. Jrnl. Dec. 442/1 The ledger account or the card files can be looked over once in two weeks.
1946 J. W. Mauchly in Moore School Lect. (1985) 38 The actual code of instructions in this library would be stored on magnetic tapes, and a catalog or a card file would allow the person wishing to use this library to locate the required sub-routines.
1991 Pract. Photogr. Jan. 49/2 The 6 × 4 inch plastic card file boxes available from stationers are ideal for colour enprints.
2013 M. Alexander & D. Kusleika Access 2013 Bible iii. 76 Consider the Rolodex card file many people use to store names, addresses, and phone numbers.
card-edge gilder n. a person who gilds the edges of cards or boards, esp. as an occupation; (also) a machine which does this (now rare).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [noun] > gilding > gilder > specific
water-gilder1725
card-edge gilder1829
parcel-gilder1884
1829 G. Cowie Bookbinder's Man. 115 (heading) A list of Bookbinders,..Book and Card edge Gilders, and Manufacturers or Dealers in Milled Boards.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §538 Card edge gilder;..places cards in press after they are trimmed..; brushes them over with size, lays on gold leaf and allows it to dry; burnishes gold leaf by hand with agate or bloodstone burnishing tool.
1971 Daily Mail 2 Nov. 26/3 Card-edge gilder requires work.
† card gospeller n. Obsolete rare a professed Christian who gambles at cards, as a type of someone who espouses Christian values but does not live a Christian way of life.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person
Pharisee1539
card gospeller1550
lip-gospeller?1556
saint1563
table-gospeller1570
separatist1620
Christera1650
canter1652
high-liver1715
cant1725
pietist1767
devil dodger1791
goody1816
creeping Jesusc1818
Mawworm1825
goody-two-shoes1843
Pecksniff1844
goody-goody1872
goody-good1879
lip-Christian1882
plaster saint1890
holy Willie1916
society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [noun] > false
card gospeller1550
pseudo-Christian1579
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > player of games of chance > types of
card gospeller1550
carrow1577
eagle1608
piker1859
plunger1868
tinhorn gambler1885
pool shark1886
tinhorn1887
mug punter1922
1550 H. Latimer Serm. Stamford sig. A.viii Amonge so greate number of gospellers, some ar Carde gospellers, some are dyse gospellers, some pot-gospellers.
card house n. a precarious structure built by balancing playing cards on their edges in a series of tiers, typically forming a pyramid; = house of cards at Phrases 2; cf. card castle n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others
spurc1450
cock1608
turnel1621
corala1625
house of cardsa1625
Jack-in-the-box1659
(Prince) Rupert's Drops1662
sucker1681
whirligig1686
playbook1694
card house1733
snapper1788
card castle1792
Aaron's bells?1795
Noah's Ark1807
Jacob's ladder1820
cat-stairs1825
daisy chain1841
beanbag1861
playboat1865
piñata1868
teething ring1872
weet-weet1878
tumble-over1883
water cracker1887
jumping-bean1889
play money1894
serpentin1894
comforter1898
pacifier1901
dummy1903
bubble water1904
yo-yo1915
paper airplane1921
snowstorm1926
titty1927
teaser1935
Slinky1948
teether1949
Mr Potato Head1952
squeeze toy1954
Frisbee1957
mobile1957
chew toy1959
water-rocket1961
Crazy Foam1965
playshop1967
war toy1973
waterball1974
pull-along1976
transformer1984
Aerobie1985
1733 Corn-cutter's Jrnl. 18 Dec. Found him wholly taken up with disposing an Heap of Bricks..into various Figures..pulling down his Castles..just as Children do by their Card Houses.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 14 Knocking down the rest of the line like a nest of card-houses.
2000 M. Crilley Akiko on Planet Smoo (2001) i. 5 She was carefully beginning the third floor of a very ambitious card house.
card key n. †(a) a card featuring a list or diagram explaining the figures in a picture, the symbols used in a book, etc.; cf. key n.1 5d (obsolete); (b) a card which acts as a key in providing access to something or in operating a device; = key card n. 3a.
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society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > writing accompanying map or illustration
key1797
legend1863
card key1890
society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > key > other types of key
piped keyc1520
pipe key1540
pass-key1633
rose key1663
screw key1742
ring-key1761
Chubb1833
keylet1860
card key1951
key card1966
1857 Athenæum 7 Mar. 314/2 (heading) A photograph, containing one hundred and four portraits of eminent actors and actresses... With a (card) key.]
1890 Our Day Nov. 366 Some persons who were walking about and looking at the pictures had got the card key of the picture of the Reformation.
1951 Sunday Reg. (Beckley, W. Va.) 7 Jan. 8/3 A new card-key system for the clubrooms will be installed. Each member will receive a card..which will act as a key in opening the door to the clubroom.
2014 G. Greenwald No Place to Hide ii. 37 Snowden pulled out a card key from his wallet and opened the door.
† cardman n. Obsolete a maker of maps or nautical charts (cf. sense 4).
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > [noun] > map-maker
cardman1598
map-maker1598
mappist1614
mapper1635
map-graver1662
cartographer1863
hill-engraver1900
1598 W. Lisle tr. S. G. de Senlis in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Colonies 10 The Poet followeth Mercator, Ortelius, and the common opinion of the Cardmen of our time.
card match n. †(a) a strip of card or thin wooden spill dipped in melted sulphur so as to be easily ignited with a flint, and used to light candles, lamps, or fuel; also figurative (obsolete); (b) U.S. a friction match joined at its base to others in a strip, (also) a bookmatch (now rare).
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > match, spill, or taper for lighting
wax tapera1398
match1519
brimstone match1594
card match1654
spunk1755
light1787
spill1821
lighter1828
candle-paper1829
fidibus1829
Promethean1829
sulphur-match1830
pipelight1842
candle-lighter1855
kitchen match1862
spiller1936
1654 Mercurius Fumigosus No. 6. 45 The Thames last Night had like to have been miraculously fired by a Girl that cry'd Card-matches, some that were washing at the sluice in seeking to quench the same, had their Members miserably burnt.
1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 102 Crying Chimney Sweep, Ay, or Card-Matches and Save-alls.
1737 H. Fielding Tom Thumb (ed. 3) ii. vi. 26 Where are those Eyes, those Cardmatches of Love.
1841 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 19 Aug. 4/3 (advt.) 100 gross Card Matches from the ‘American Friction Match Company,’ just received and for sale at factory prices.
1946 Newburyport (Mass.) Daily News 16 Nov. 4/1 A book of card matches is, or may be, a pretty little thing. Useful..if you smoke.
cardmember n. originally and chiefly U.S. a person who has a credit card or charge card; cf. cardholder n. 3b.Apparently introduced by the American Express company to denote holders of its cards, in preference to the earlier term cardholder, perhaps partly in reaction to the multiple meanings of that term (cf. cardholder n. 3a).
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1967 Credit Managem. Year Bk. 1967–8 68 In the event an American Express Credit Card is lost or stolen, a recently added feature serves to relieve our card member of a good deal of anxiety.
1971 Olney (Texas) Enterprise 1 Apr. 8/8 The ability to travel..without having to carry large amounts of cash..is fast becoming a very major factor in our economy. American Express's 3,500,000 cardmembers are proof of that trend.
1989 Independent 14 Oct. in BNC American Express has introduced an accidental injury insurance plan which covers cardmembers for high-risk sports excluded from most insurances.
2019 Farmington (New Mexico) Daily Times 27 Feb. 3 a/3 (advt.) Cardmember exclusive shopping day! Use your Dillard's card on today's purchases and take an extra 40% off!
cardmembership n. originally and chiefly U.S. the fact or status of having a particular credit card or charge card.Frequently with reference to holding a card issued by the American Express company (cf. note at cardmember n.). [ < card n.2 + membership n., after cardmember n.]
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1975 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 13 May 4/3 We believe you have reached the position where you will benefit from Cardmembership.
2016 Santa-Barbara (Calif.) News-Press 6 Nov. 81/5 Enjoy a 0-percent APR for 15 months..with the Chase Slate card and pay no balance-transfer fee if you move the money within the first 60 days of card membership.
2017 1843 Mag. Oct. 59/2 (advt.) You can earn 30,000 Membership Rewards® points as a welcome bonus when you spend £2,000 on your card in the first three months of Cardmembership.
card money n. (a) money designated for the playing of card games involving gambling, or the profits of this; (b) money towards the cost of the playing cards to be used at a social gathering, customarily left by guests for the domestic servants whose duty it was to supply them (now historical); (c) a type of fiat money printed on playing cards or blank pieces of cardboard, which was used as currency in various countries and colonies (including France, Louisiana, Dutch Guiana, and New France, Canada) at various points from the 17th cent. to the early 19th cent. (now historical).
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance > for specific purpose
beggar-charge1652
vesturage1679
card money1688
mileage1724
necessary money1778
risk money1841
capital allowance1866
journey-money1883
1688 tr. J. de Préchac Disorders of Bassett 18 I know some.., that neither care for Bassett, or any other sort of Gameing, and yet are desirous to have it at their Houses for the Profit of the Card-money [Fr. le profit des cartes].
1738 E. Dower Salopian Esquire 40 Ladies that keep visiting Days now thieve from their very Footmen; and the Card Money, which is the Servant's Due, they keep to buy Wax-Candles.
1791 tr. Anc. French Arch. 4 Begins with the King's declaration 21st. March, 1718, reducing the card-money [Fr. l'argent en carte] of Canada to half its value.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. vi. 130 Our private men were paid in silver coin, which the captains had proposed to exchange for card-money, at the rate of ten per cent. gain for them.
1827 F.-X. Martin Hist. Louisiana I. 113 Louis the fourteenth having approved the emission of card money made in Canada, during the preceding year, another emission was now prepared in Paris, in which pasteboard was used instead of cards.
1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xvii. 114 For..ornaments of her person, pocket-money, card-money, charities, or any other objects.
1961 Winnipeg Free Press 19 Aug. 20/7 About five million dollars of this card money was still in use when France lost Quebec to the British.
2020 H. Quinn Crafter Quilts Crime (e-book ed.) As long as he kept the card money separate and didn't dip into their personal savings..then she wouldn't have anything to say about what he was up to with his buddies.
card number n. a string of digits printed or embossed on a payment card (esp. a credit or debit card) and encoded on its magnetic strip or chip, which identifies the card uniquely and is required for making payments from the cardholder's account; cf. credit card number n.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > cheques and drafts > [noun] > credit card > associated identification number
PIN1976
PIN number1976
card number1982
1982 Times 15 Nov. 6/2 Obtaining card numbers and expiry dates from carbons is one of the latest in an ingenious range of tricks used by cedit [sic] card crooks.
1991 Which? Oct. 543/3 When that card was swiped across the till, this ‘read’ the Bradleys' card number, and debited their account.
2019 Daily Express 26 Sept. 14/2 The security checks include ‘Can you give me your card number’, ‘expiry date’ and ‘three-digit security code’.
cardpaper n. now chiefly Indian English stiff paper or card; cardboard.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [noun] > cardboard
cardc1545
chart1704
cardpaper1707
cardboard1789
1707 Philos. Trans. 1706–7 (Royal Soc.) 25 2398 They colour them playing cards by the help of several Patterns or Stanesiles, as they call them; they are Card Paper cut thro' with a Penknife, for every Colour, as Red, &c.
1777 J. Mudge in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 336 There must..be two other circular pieces of card-paper cut out.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 239 A house of card-paper would be the solider refuge.
1958 Times of India 9 Nov. (Mag. section) III/1 A few weeks ago I gave you ideas about making useful boxes out of card-paper and cardboard.
2016 Health.India.com (Nexis) 26 Oct. On a long strip of cardpaper, draw out a track and get racing with the cardboard box cars!
cardphone n. chiefly British a payphone operated by means of phonecard, instead of by coins.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of
microtelephone1879
field telephone1880
telephone extension1881
pay telephone1886
home telephone1893
substation1897
extension1906
railophone1911
dial phone1917
payphone1919
dial telephone1921
autophone1922
mobile telephone1930
viewphone1932
videophone1944
mobile phone1945
car phone1946
video telephone1947
speaker-phone1955
picture telephone1956
princess phone1959
touchtone telephone1961
touch-tone1962
touchtone phone1963
picture phone1964
Trimphone1965
princess telephone1966
vision-telephone1966
visiophone1971
princess1973
warbler1973
landline1977
cardphone1978
feature phone1979
smartphone1980
mobile1982
cell phone1983
Vodafone1984
cellular1985
mobile device1989
brick1990
satphone1991
celly1992
burner phone1996
keitai1998
burner2002
1978 Daily Tel. 14 Aug. 11/3 A caller would insert the card into a slot and dial in the normal way. The ‘cardphone’ would deduct the cost of the call from the value of the card.
1984 New Scientist 26 Jan. 27 Cardphones are proving so popular..that British Telecom..is planning to introduce three thousand more this year.
2019 Guardian (Nexis) 9 Jan. In most prisons, the only telephone access is during noisy association periods, via card phones installed on the landings.
card press n. (a) a small press (press n.1 3a) for printing cards, esp. visiting cards and business cards (now rare); (b) a small press (press n.1 1a), often decorative in design, used for flattening warped or bent playing cards and for storing decks of cards in such a way as to prevent them from curling.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > for job-printing
job press1809
card press1821
society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering dimensions > [noun] > press > screw
vice1633
screw press1659
Jack-in-the-box1801
card press1821
1821 Morning Chron. 2 Feb. (advt.) An excellent Card Press, with Iron Screw and Boards.
1869 Harper's Bazaar 25 Sept. 613/2 Card Press with Bead Embroidery. This ebony press for playing-cards is novel in shape.
1883 Printers' Circular July 101/1 This is a card press, and can only print a card three inches by four inches.
1907 Amer. Printer June 453/1 Automatic Card Press Wanted.
1958 Vogue Apr. 138 An agate-topped console table and on it, a Venetian glass pineapple, Victorian card press.
2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 27 Aug. b4 His collection encompasses some 3,000 games, as well as card presses, trump indicators, gaming tables and intricate bone boxes carved by Napoleonic prisoners of war.
card punch n. an apparatus for punching holes in cards, esp. in order to transfer data or code to or from a calculating machine, computer, etc.; cf. sense 17b, and punched card n.
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1848 Rep. 5th Exhib. Mass. Charitable Mechanic Assoc. 1847 58 John Smith, Boston. One Card-Punch, or Perforating Machine.
1920 Rep. Congress. Joint Comm. Reclassification Salaries ii. 822 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (66th Congr., 2nd Sess.: U.S. House of Representatives Doc. 686) I Experience as a Card Punch Operator or a Coder.
1940 W. J. Eckert Punched Card Methods Sci. Computation ii. 8 The card punch is used to transfer the given data of a problem from the manuscript to the punched cards.
2000 F. W. Kistermann in R. Rojas & U. Hashagen First Computers iii. 223 The work flow diagram shows that every punched card installation needed at least one card punch, one verifier, one sorter, and one tabulator.
2015 T. Gibb Contemp. Insect Diagnostics ii. 9/2 Other supplies and equipment used in a diagnostic laboratory include eye droppers.., polyethylene foam blocks for holding pinned specimens, a card punch and a syringe.
card receiver n. chiefly U.S., now historical a small decorative tray for holding cards, esp. calling cards.
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society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > visiting card > receptacles for
card receiver1829
1829 Young Lady's Bk. 475 What-nots, or card receivers, may be made in a variety of shapes.
1861 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 16 Mar. 129/1 Sir, she undertook this morning to wash my Sévres card receiver and vases.
1926 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 31 Oct. 59/3 Mrs. Hadley had decided to install the mirror in the hall opposite the stairway and the table with the card receiver near by.
2014 M. Lynch-Brennan Irish Bridget iv. 67 If those whom they visited were not at home, proper etiquette required the visitor to leave her engraved calling card in the card receiver proffered by the servant who greeted her.
card shark n. a person who is skilled at card games; (also) a person who cheats at cards; a card sharp. [Apparently < card n.2 + shark n.1 (compare shark n.1 2a), perhaps as an alteration of card sharp n.]
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > [noun] > card-sharper
Greek1528
cheaterc1555
packer1586
palmer1671
operator1731
card sharp1840
card-sharper1841
mechanic1897
sharpie1942
card shark2002
1877 Sandusky (Ohio) Daily Reg. 7 Sept. The subject of this gathering of card-sharks is to definitely settle the relative values of some of the larger denominations of hands.
1993 D. Burrus & R. Gittines Technotrends (1994) vi. 126 My players were calling and raising each other like real card sharks.
2002 Caribbean World Summer 65/1 Poker has continued to shed its negative image of the backroom card shark playing with an ace hidden up his sleeve.
card sharp n. a person, esp. a professional gambler, who makes money by cheating at cards; cf. card-sharper n. [ < card n.2 + sharp n.1 (compare sharp n.1 8).]
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > [noun] > card-sharper
Greek1528
cheaterc1555
packer1586
palmer1671
operator1731
card sharp1840
card-sharper1841
mechanic1897
sharpie1942
card shark2002
1840 H. D. Miles Claude Du Val xi. 129 The knavish card-sharp was slowly and with apparent fairness, cutting the pack.
1963 Punch 3 July 33/3 George Manolesco was a Rumanian thief and cardsharp.
2013 Daily Tel. 27 Sept. 21/1 An Italian card sharp who used infra-red contact lenses to count cards marked with invisible ink has been jailed for two years.
card-sharper n. a person, esp. a professional gambler, who makes money by cheating at cards; (also) a person who is skilled at card games; cf. card sharp n. [ < card n.2 + sharper n.1 (compare sharper n.1 2).]
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > [noun] > card-sharper
Greek1528
cheaterc1555
packer1586
palmer1671
operator1731
card sharp1840
card-sharper1841
mechanic1897
sharpie1942
card shark2002
1841 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 12 May (advt.) This Night the Great Wizard will..Change a Gentleman's Hat into a Feather Bed—Card Sharpers exposed—Cheat Cheating Gamblers, and a Thousand other Mysteries.
1887 ‘E. Lyall’ Donovan (ed. 8) xvi. 183 Beware of pickpockets and cardsharpers dressed as gentlemen.
1955 Country Life 1 Dec. 1339/3 One of the great books of the nineteenth-twenties..as sparkling and refreshing as vintage champagne, as resourceful as a card-sharper.
2005 C. Alliott Not that Kind of Girl xxiv. 355 Your mother's a mean card-sharper as I'm sure you know, Henry. I'll be lucky if I get a game off her.
card-sharping n. the action of making money by cheating at cards; the fact of being a card sharp.In early use perhaps also with reference more broadly to any illicit gambling with cards. [ < card n.2 + sharping n. (compare sharping n. 2).]
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > [noun]
card coney-catching1592
bite1711
Greekery1823
card-sharping1840
1840 Sunday Times 5 Apr. Card sharping.—Luke Owen, the proprietor of the Coachmakers' Arms, Belgrave-street, on Thursday appeared on a summons charging him with suffering gaming.
1870 Daily News 20 Apr. Two men..were charged with..card-sharping in a railway carriage.
2007 Irish Independent (Nexis) 2 June Through some clever card-sharping and timely thievery, Fergus and Molly wrangle a place on the Laramie, sailing to Quebec.
card table n. a table at which card games are played, spec. a small, light table designed for this purpose, typically constructed so as to fold away when not in use and having a baize or felt top surface; (also, more generally) any lightweight folding occasional table.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > table on which cards are played
card table1709
1709 Supplement (newspaper) No. 283. (advt.) The Victory Card-Table White Japan, having therupon the same Accounts and Embellishments as the Victory Handkerchief.
1785 W. Cowper Let. 19 Mar. (1981) II. 333 The Card-table..is covered with green baize.
1830 Tasmanian 11 June 4/4 Several professed gamblers, one of whom..I saw thrust out of the Casino, for stealing money off a card table.
1959 Chicago Defender 15 Aug. 16/1 Just select colorful paper tablecloths, plates and napkins and arrange them on card tables.
2006 D. Trussoni Falling through Earth (2007) x. 183 Suzie and I joined my uncles, who were playing euchre at a card table.
2017 Med. Marketing & Media July 60/3 Starting from scratch is hard... Last year we were working on card tables.
card trick n. a magic trick involving a playing card or cards.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > a trick > specific
card trick1777
rope trick1830
hat trick1840
mango tree trick1876
1777 Public Advertiser 6 Aug. Card Tricks, and Mechanical Inventions.., give great Satisfaction. The whole Fraternity of Legerdemain Players may boast of their juggling.
1899 Secret Service 3 Nov. (advt.) The great book of magic and card tricks, containing full instruction of all the leading card tricks of the day.
2014 P. O'Brien I'll be right back after This viii. 112 He decided to show off his new card trick. He pulled out a deck of cards and had a ten-year-old girl pull one out.
card vote n. British a vote by delegates, esp. at a trade-union meeting or conference, in which each delegate's vote counts as a vote by all his or her constituents; cf. sense 13b.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [noun] > voting in other specific ways
silent vote1659
show of hands1742
voice vote1897
card vote1900
voice1924
queue voting1986
1900 Manch. Guardian 1 Mar. 12/4 The resolution was carried—a decision which was reaffirmed on a card vote.
1924 H. G. Wells in Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. Should its [sc. the League of Nations'] members have a card vote after the pattern of a British Trade Union Congress?
1966 Listener 22 Sept. 411/2 Representation, two different forms of voting procedure—a show of hands and the card vote—and accountability are all clearly laid down.
2014 Morning Star 20 May 9/3 In the case of Cardiff Trades Council, instead of casting a card vote of 20,000-plus as we used to, now we have 26 votes all told.
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† cardn.3

Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare char n.3
Obsolete. rare.
A kind of fish (not identified).Said to be one of fifty-three kinds of sea fish found in the River Severn.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]
whalec950
tumbrelc1300
sprout1340
squame1393
codmop1466
whitefish1482
lineshark?a1500
salen1508
glaucus1509
bretcock1522
warcodling1525
razor1530
bassinatc1540
goldeney1542
smy1552
maiden1555
grail1587
whiting1587
needle1589
pintle-fish1591
goldfish1598
puffin fish1598
quap1598
stork1600
black-tail1601
ellops1601
fork-fish1601
sea-grape1601
sea-lizard1601
sea-raven1601
barne1602
plosher1602
whale-mouse1607
bowman1610
catfish1620
hog1620
kettle-fish1630
sharpa1636
carda1641
housewifea1641
roucotea1641
ox-fisha1642
sea-serpent1646
croaker1651
alderling1655
butkin1655
shamefish1655
yard1655
sea-dart1664
sea-pelican1664
Negro1666
sea-parrot1666
sea-blewling1668
sea-stickling1668
skull-fish1668
whale's guide1668
sennet1671
barracuda1678
skate-bread1681
tuck-fish1681
swallowtail1683
piaba1686
pit-fish1686
sand-creeper1686
horned hog1702
soldier1704
sea-crowa1717
bran1720
grunter1726
calcops1727
bennet1731
bonefish1734
Negro fish1735
isinglass-fish1740
orb1740
gollin1747
smelt1776
night-walker1777
water monarch1785
hardhead1792
macaw-fish1792
yellowback1796
sea-raven1797
blueback1812
stumpnose1831
flat1847
butterfish1849
croppie1856
gubbahawn1857
silt1863
silt-snapper1863
mullet-head1866
sailor1883
hogback1893
skipper1898
stocker1904
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 319 A barne, a Cod, a Card, An eele pout.
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cardv.1

Brit. /kɑːd/, U.S. /kɑrd/ (in sense 5)Scottish English /kerd/
Forms: Middle English gard, Middle English karde, Middle English–1500s carde, Middle English– card; also Scottish pre-1700 cairde, pre-1700 kaird, 1900s– caird (in sense 5), 1900s– kyaard (regional (Banffshire) in sense 5).
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a borrowing from French. Etymons: card n.1; French carder.
Etymology: Either (i) < card n.1, or (ii) < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French carder, carder, Middle French garder (13th cent. as karder in a text from Artois; French carder ) < Old French carde , karde card n.1 Compare Old Occitan cardar (14th cent.), Catalan cardar (beginning of the 14th cent.), Spanish cardar (2nd half of the 13th cent.), Portuguese cardar (mid 13th cent.), Italian cardare (end of the 13th cent.), all in sense ‘to comb impurities from wool before spinning’.Evidence for early currency. For further indirect evidence of currency of the English verb in the first half of the 14th cent., see cardster n. Notes on senses. With use in sense 5 compare the similar semantic development shown by Italian cardare to reprimand severely (end of the 13th cent.); the development may perhaps have been via sense 2. With use in sense 2 compare Portuguese cardar to extort, torture, Spanish cardar la lana to beat or mistreat (lit. ‘to card wool’).
1.
a.
(a) transitive. To prepare (wool, flax, cotton, etc.) for spinning, by combing out impurities and separating and aligning the fibres with a card (card n.1 1); to raise a nap on (cloth). Also with out.In quot. a1400 with reference to the preparation of sheepskin.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [verb (transitive)] > comb
tozea1250
kemba1300
card1333
comb1577
gill1864
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [verb (transitive)] > comb > remove impurities with
card1333
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > treat or process textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > put nap on
raise1482
rough1484
row1487
cotton1488
moze1505
frieze1509
teasel1603
nap1608
tease1755
card1766
frizz1806
1333–4 [implied in: 1333–4 in F. Collins Reg. Freemen York (1897) I. 27 Joh. le carder, de Ayremynne. (at carder n.1 1a)].
a1400 MS Trin. Cambr. O.9.39 in Crafte of Lymmyng (2016) i. 38 Karde hit wel and clene vpon þe wulle syde with a karde as þese skynners karden þese lombe vell with.
1471 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 551 Alys Haweryng hat spowne and cardyd and twystyd tweyntey pownde of ȝerne fore the aras man.
1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 31 The Natives, card out this Rind into a kind of course Tow.
1766 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. at Wool The next operation is that of carding, thistling, or teazling the goods.
1804 Earl of Lauderdale Inq. Nature & Origin Public Wealth App. x. 415 Machines which at once clean, card, and reduce the cotton into a state adapted for spinning.
1912 in C. Hutton Kinks on Wool Carding & Spinning (ed. 2) 61 We have seen rowy goods caused by the fibers of the nubs being carded out, producing irregular effects.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1442 There it [sc. cotton] has to be cleansed from impurities in one set of machines, and teased or carded in another, before it is ready to go to the spinning machines.
2015 New Scientist (U.K. ed.) 8 Aug. 57/3 Hand spinners typically prepare short-fibred fleece by carding it into rolls of fibre.
(b) intransitive. To prepare wool, flax, etc., for spinning, by combing out impurities and separating and straightening the fibres with a card (card n.1 1).
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c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. x. l. 80 Boþe to karde and to kembe.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Eij The men spinne and carde and make clothe.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) 19 Cloth must be cheaper made, when one Cards, another Spins, another Weaves.
1879 Arthur's Illustr. Home Mag. Nov. 518/1 Every woman and girl could card and spin, but it was considered quite a fortune to be possessed of a loom and all the appurtenances for weaving.
1941 N. M. Gunn Silver Darlings ix. 175 The long winter nights of inside work, when women carded and spun and knitted.
1998 E. A. Scarborough Godmother's Web viii. 101 Grandma was showing Hannah and Doris how to card and spin as she talked.
†b. transitive. figurative. To arrange, tidy up, or prepare (something). Obsolete.
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c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. x. l. 18 Wisdome and witte now is nouȝt worth a carse, But if it be carded with coueytise, as clotheres kemben here wolle.
1786 R. Burns Let. 27 Dec. (2001) I. 69 I inclose you two Poems I have carded and spun since I past Glenbuck.
c. transitive. In extended use. Of a bee or other animal: to prepare (material) for a nest, etc.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [verb (transitive)] > sort out materials for nest
card1608
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [verb (transitive)] > sort out materials for nest (of bees)
card1829
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 270 As for separating, deuiding, picking, carding, or suting their stuffe, they [sc. a kind of spider] are very Bunglers to the first mentioned.
1829 J. Rennie & J. O. Westwood Nat. Hist. Insects I. v. 70 The bees..carded it with their feet into a felted mass.
2020 R. Imes Pract. Entomologist (new ed.) 6 The wool-carder bee..cards or braids pieces of moss with its legs or mandibles to form a nest.
d. transitive. English regional (Yorkshire). to card up: to sweep up (a hearth), to tidy up (a room or other place).
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1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. (E.D.S.) (at cited word) To ‘card up’ a hearthstone is..merely to separate and remove the ashes and cinders. To ‘card up’ a room means, to put it generally to rights.
†2. transitive. To scratch or tear (a person or a person's flesh) with a card (card n.1 1) or similar instrument, as a method of torture or as a punishment. Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > tear flesh with wool-card
card?a1556
?a1556 [implied in: Grey Friars Chron. anno 1552 in R. Howlett Monumenta Franciscana (1882) II. 236 For cardynge of hare mayde with a payer of carddes soche as dothe carde wolle with-alle. (at carding n.1 2)].
?1575 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Ulloa in A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. (new ed.) 411 Others had theyr fleshe carded as though it had beene woll, or flaxe [Fr. à d'autres on cardoit leur peau comme on feroit la laine, ou le lin, It. altri pettinar la carne con pettini di ferro, come le donne pettinano il lino].
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxvii. 403 With Cardes and Teazls..he made him to be carded..vntill he died of it.
1827 Q. Rev. 35 87 On the overthrow of his party he was taken prisoner, and carded to death.
1881 W. E. Forster in Standard 25 Jan. ‘Card’ him—that is to say, an iron comb used for agricultural purposes is applied to the man's naked body.
1923 Western People (Ballina, County Mayo) 7 July 2/2 She never used the expression towards one of the Bradys that if he did not go away she would ‘card’ him.
†3. transitive. To stir and mix (two or more things) together; to mix (something) with another thing; to mingle. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > by kneading, stirring, etc. > by stirring
stirc1000
to stir up1340
stira1475
card1591
coil1674
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xix. f. 70v They drinke milke or warme blood, and for the most part carde them both together.
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G You Tom tapster..card your beare..halfe small and halfe strong.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 62 The skipping king..carded his state, Mingled his royaltie with capring fooles. View more context for this quotation
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 355 As for his dyet, let it be warme mashes, sodden wheat and hay, thoroughly carded with a paire of wool cards.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 133 Wine, carded together with a little warme water.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 268 Calm discussions do so card affections into one another.
1922 F. J. Fielden tr. P. Hällstrom Sel. Short Stories 91 The clouds, which had been carded together into a single blanket, now parted.
†4. transitive. To comb or cleanse (a thing) of impurities. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > clear of refuse [verb (transitive)]
winnowa900
rinse?a1400
rid1421
redd1446
rede1450
card1612
unrubbish1645
flux1651
ripe1720
ream1967
1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 vi. 42 'Tis necessary that this Book be carded and purged of certain base things.
5. transitive. English regional (north-western) and Scottish. To scold sharply, reprehend, criticize (a person).
ΚΠ
1859 A. Whitehead Legends of Westmorland 27 An when they'd tired wi' cardin Jwohn, An teazin his affairs.
1933 N. Shepherd Pass in Grampians i. 6 She cairded me in some style, I'm tellin' you. O ay, the wordies sounded grand.
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cardv.2

Brit. /kɑːd/, U.S. /kɑrd/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: card n.2
Etymology: < card n.2 Compare earlier carder n.2
1.
a. intransitive. To play cards; to play one's cards. Formerly also †transitive with it (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play at cards [verb (intransitive)]
card1519
1519 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 32 Latt no manservauntes dysse nor carde in ther howsses.
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. B.iiiiv Thei hauke, they hunt, thei card, they dyce.
1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 136 You shall hazard to Card ill, that play to please one by displeasing another.
a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) 166 Many that live revelling, carding, dicing.
1728 H. Fielding Love in Several Masques iii. vii. 34 Lasses, that sleep all the Morning, dress all the Afternoon, and Card it all Night.
1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide xiv. ii. 97 Brother Simkin's grown a Rakehell, Cards and dances ev'ry Day.
1893 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 25 185 ‘They was carding’, meaning playing cards.
1921 Live Stock Jrnl. 15 Apr. 362/1 Well, they'd sat ‘carding’ and drinking gin while two or three o'clock in the morning.
2010 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 14 July c5/7 Often, the secret of staying alive when on defense at the bridge table is to card honestly, take tricks slowly, and ignore your age.
2015 @KarlBlade 24 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 19 June 2020) A good night carding n drinking finished off with a costly few hours at casino.
†b. transitive. to card away: to spend or lose (one's time, money, etc.) playing cards; to banish (one's trouble) playing cards. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play a card [verb (transitive)] > play (something) away
to card away1575
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie sig. B.ij To dice, to daunce, to coll, to kisse, to carde the time away.
a1620 J. Dyke Divers Select Serm. (1640) 169 It may bee they may drinke away their trouble, and drowne it that way; It may bee they card and dice it away.
a1721 W. Darrell Moral Refl. Select Passages New Test. (1736) I. 52 At once he plays the fool and the devil; first by carding away his money, and then by blaspheming away his innocence.
1797 G. Waring End of Time (ed. 4) 20 Many of you who are trifling away your time,..dancing and carding away your time, and squandering it away in sinful amusement.
1908 G. Hewlett Spanish Jade i. 6 If his gentlehood had been negotiable he had carded it away.
†2. transitive. U.S. To send (a person) a message by a card or postcard; to send (a message) by a card or postcard. Cf. wire v. Obsolete.
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society > communication > correspondence > sending items > send items [verb (transitive)] > send postcard to
card1830
postcard1877
1830 Cincinnati Chron. 15 May 1/4 The expedient of carding..is simply dropping a card..without the trouble of carding a man with your own hands.
1880 Let. in N.E.D. (1888) (at cited word) Will you card to me here an answer to my friend the professor's question?
†3. transitive. To display (an inscription, etc.) by means of a card. Obsolete. rare.
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1844 E. A. Poe Oblong Box in Dollar Newspaper (Philadelphia) 28 Aug. 1/4 I observed that his name was carded upon three state-rooms.
4.
a. transitive. To fix (something, esp. buttons or other small items) on a card. Cf. card n.2 8b.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertising specific thing > [verb (transitive)] > fix trade patterns on card
card1861
1861 Once a Week 12 Mar. 261/1 They [sc. buttons] are neatly carded on smart gilt-edged pasteboards.
1884 Harper's Mag. Oct. 522/2 They are carded, and boxed in cotton-wool.
1908 Monthly Consular & Trade Rep. (U.S. Dept. Commerce & Labor) May 30 Padlocks..are carded and displayed here by Continental exporters in competition with the higher priced and better made American locks.
2011 @NiftyThriftyDG 28 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 22 June 2020) Carding buttons and making up sets of stone buttons for #StitchesSouth in Atlanta.
b. transitive (chiefly in passive). Chiefly Sport. To put (a race, competitor, etc.) on a racecard, fight card, etc.; to schedule, slate (an event, etc.). Cf. carded adj.1 2, card n.2 16.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] > arrange > arrange or schedule
make1676
schedule1862
slate1883
card1885
1885 Suppl. Leicester Chron. & Leics. Mercury 1 Aug. 3/5 There were two events carded on the programme—a twenty miles' amateur bicycle championship,..and a five miles' professional bicycle scratch race.
1912 Moving Picture News 2 Mar. 30/1 One of the boxers carded to appear in the preliminary flunks at the last moment and Abie takes his place.
1959 Billboard 13 July 50/3 A total of 24 races are carded, five each day of the five-day meet except on Hambletonian Day.
2020 @SportCommTT 24 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 25 Nov. 2020) Here's what's happening over the weekend, with some events carded for next week as well.
c. transitive. To write (something) on a card; to record the details of (a library book, an individual word being studied, etc.) on a card, esp. for use in a card index. Also with up.
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society > communication > record > written record > record in writing [verb (transitive)] > on card
card1892
1892 Ann. Rep. Secretary of War (U.S. War Dept.) I. 648 During the year ended June 30, 1892, the rolls of thirty-five States and Territories were carded.
1925 A. Mawer & F. M. Stenton Place-names Bucks. p. v Mrs. Stenton..has given invaluable help..in the work of carding up and identifying the place-names.
1934 J. E. Mansion Harrap's Fr. & Eng. Dict. I. p. vi To supplement these we must collect and ‘card’ our own material.
1968 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 May 559/4 This isn't to say..that other readers may not have found and carded them [sc. words] earlier.
1995 Prologue (Nat. Archives) Summer 261/1 Most descriptive books were carded; other types of records were not.
d. transitive. Golf. To score (a certain number of points) for a round or competition on a scorecard; to shoot (shoot v. 27c). Cf. card n.2 15b(b), scorecard n. (a) at score n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > play golf [verb (transitive)] > score
to halve a hole1857
to shoot a birdie1922
card1929
par1961
1929 Salt Lake Tribune 11 May 25/1 He carded a total medal score of 292, distancing Johnny Farrell, American runner-up, by six strokes.
2014 Scottish Daily Mail 17 May 95/2 The Dutchman went on to birdie the 542-yard par five and picked up another shot on the ninth..to card a 69.
5. transitive (frequently in passive). North American. To ask (a person) to show a form of identification (usually a driving licence), typically to confirm that he or she is above the legal drinking age. Also intransitive.
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1969 Chicago Heights Star 17 July c1/3 Teenagers get carded to see a Bob Hope movie. Meanwhile, theatre managers will let an eight-year-old see some smut film just because he came with Daddy.
2007 Time Out N.Y. 20 Sept. 58/3 We..went to a lot of hookah bars because they never used to card.
2014 New Yorker 6 Oct. 25/1 At a recent performance, audience members were carded, then handed a shot of tequila, as they entered.
6. transitive. Sport. Of a referee: to show (a player) a coloured card indicating a caution, dismissal, or other penalty. Cf. yellow card v., red-card v. 2.Often understood as referring to the caution, dismissal, etc., signified by the card shown, rather than the act of showing the card itself.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > play association football [verb (transitive)] > actions to player
rob1882
book1959
turn1973
card1986
yellow card1996
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > play rugby football [verb (transitive)] > actions to player
maul1856
tackle1884
to hand off1886
screw1887
sidestep1911
smother1920
stiff-arm1927
sprig1939
spear tackle1969
card1986
yellow card2011
1986 Irish Independent 10 Mar. 12/7 Mr. Caulfield and his linesmen were none too impressive in their handling of this niddle-ridden [sic] game (five players were carded).
2018 Lancs. Tel. (Nexis) 29 Dec. Taylor, officiating his first Championship match of the season, carded three players in the opening half an hour.

Phrases

† to card a rest: to take a stand or defend one’s point. Obsolete. rare.In quot. as part of an extended metaphor likening fixing one's reserve stakes in the card game primero (cf. rest n.3 5) to showing commitment to an argument or course of action.
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1637 T. Heywood Royall King ii. sig. D4 Who kicks first, ha, come; have you minde to game? I'le cast, or set at thus much; will you card A rest for this?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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