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{{also|Card|cârd}}
==Translingual==

===Symbol===
{{head|mul|symbol}}

# {{lb|mul|mathematics}} [[cardinality]]
#: {{syn|mul|\#|{{!}} {{!}}}}

==English==
{{wikipedia}}
[[File:Card 5 (334458096).jpg|thumb|Some playing cards]]
[[File:Larry page card.jpg|thumb|A business card]]
[[File:Bulgarian identity card.png|thumb|An identity card]]
[[File:Network card.jpg|thumb|A network card (electronic device inserted into a computer)]]

===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|kärd}}
** {{IPA|en|/kɑːd/|[kʰɑːd]|a=UK}}
** {{IPA|en|/kɑɹd/|[kʰɑɹd]|a=US}}
*** {{audio|en|en-us-card.ogg|a=US}}
** {{IPA|en|/kaːd/|[kʰäːd]|a=Australia}}
*** {{audio|en|en-au-card.ogg|a=AU}}
** {{IPA|en|/kɐːd/|[kʰɐːd]|a=New Zealand}}
* {{hyphenation|en|card}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɑː(ɹ)d|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|en|enm|carde||playing card}}, from {{der|en|fro|carte}}, from {{der|en|la|charta}}, from {{der|en|grc|χάρτης||paper, papyrus}}. {{doublet|en|chart}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}

# A [[playing card]].
#* {{quote-journal|en|journal=Time|title=Games: Beating the Dealer|date=Jan 25, 1963
|passage=As each '''card''' is played in blackjack, it changes the possibilities for both player and dealer by diminishing the number and the variety of '''cards''' that may be dealt.
|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,940259,00.html}}
# {{lb|en|in the plural}} Any [[game]] using [[playing card]]s; a [[card game]].
#: {{ux|en|He played '''cards''' with his friends.}}
# A [[resource]] or [[argument]], used to achieve a purpose. {{q|See {{m|en|play the something card}}.}}
#: {{ux|en|The government played the Orange '''card''' to get support for their Ireland policy.}}
#: {{ux|en|He accused them of [[play the race card|playing the race '''card''']].}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Luke McNamara|title=Human Rights Controversies: The Impact of Legal Form|page=138|passage=Having adopted civil union as their goal, proponents of the Civil Union Bill were sensitive to the need not to overplay the human rights '''card''', aware that there was a significant degree of resistance in the New Zealand {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-av|en|author=Drachinifel|title=Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918|date=17 October 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrTeYcRXDEw|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804035059/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrTeYcRXDEw|archivedate=4 August 2022|accessdate=4 August 2022|time=24:24|text=Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining '''card''' he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all.}}
# Any [[flat]], normally [[rectangular]] piece of [[stiff]] [[paper]], [[plastic]]{{,}} etc.
# {{lb|en|uncountable}} <!-- definitely UK; elsewhere? --> [[paper|Paper]] that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than [[paperboard]], used for postcards, playing cards, etc.; [[card stock]].
#: {{ux|en|Do you have any '''card'''? I want to make a poster.}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[map]] or [[chart]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1590|author=w:Edmund Spenser|title=w:The Faerie Queene|section=II.vii|passage=As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his '''card''' and compas firmes his eye {{...}}.}}
# {{lb|en|informal}} An [[amusing]] or [[entertaining]] person, often [[slightly]] [[eccentric]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1918|author=Siegfried Sassoon|title=s:The General|passage="He's a cheery old '''card'''," muttered Harry to Jack / As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. / . . . / But he did for them both by his plan of attack.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=w:Meredith Gran|url=http://www.octopuspie.com/2007-11-12/071-deadpan/|title=Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan
|passage=MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at ''nothing''.<br>EVE: Oh, Marek, you '''card'''.}}
# A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in [[professional wrestling]].
#: {{ux|en|What's on the '''card''' for tonight?}}
# {{lb|en|cricket}} A [[tabular]] [[presentation]] of the [[key]] [[statistics]] of an [[innings]] or [[match]]: [[batsman|batsmen]]’s [[score]]s and how they were [[dismissed]], [[extras]], total score and [[bowling figures]].
# {{lb|en|computing}} A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
#: {{syn|en|expansion card}}
#: {{ux|en|He needed to replace the '''card''' his computer used to connect to the internet.}}
# {{lb|en|computing}} Any of a set of [[page]]s or [[form]]s that the user can [[navigate]] between, and fill with [[data]], in certain [[user interface]]s.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1993|author=Danny Goodman|title=The Complete HyperCard 2.2 Handbook|page=198
|passage=The button will "see" the cursor through a '''card''' domain graphic; you can then change button graphics on each '''card'''.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2008|author=Johan Hjelm|title=Why IPTV?: Interactivity, Technologies, Services|page=13
|passage=The interaction model of WAP, originally developed for mobile phones to interact with information services in a web-like way, was based on Apple's HyperCard, and instead of pages, the user interacted with a deck of '''cards''', which were interlinked by a scripting language.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2012|author=Veljko Milutinovic; Frédéric Patricelli|title=Mastering E-Business Infrastructure|page=329
|passage=The basic building blocks of WML applications are '''cards'''. '''Cards''' are equivalent to HTML pages. Just as Web browser can show only one page at a time (except when using frames), a WAP enabled device can also show only one '''card''' at a time.}}
# A [[greeting card]].
#: {{ux|en|She gave her neighbors a '''card''' congratulating them on their new baby.}}
# A [[business card]].
#: {{ux|en|The realtor gave me her '''card''' so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.}}
# {{lb|en|television}} A [[title card]] or [[intertitle]]: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
# A [[test card]].
# In [[formal]] [[debate|debating]], a [[verbatim]] [[citation]] used as [[evidence]] for a [[point]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=N. Andre Cossette|title=The Art of Debate: 12th Edition|page=123
|passage=You can make most theory answers without '''cards''', but some '''cards''' do exist which specifically criticize [[kritik]]s on a theoretical basis.}}
# {{lb|en|dated}} A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
#: {{co|en|to put a '''card''' in the newspapers}}
# {{lb|en|dated}} A printed [[programme]].
# {{lb|en|dated|figurative|by extension}} An [[attraction]] or [[inducement]].
#: {{ux|en|This will be a good '''card''' for the last day of the fair.}}
# {{lb|en|nautical}} {{short for|en|compass card}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1594|author=Richard Hooker|title=Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity|section=1.2.5|page=153 (Everyman edition, vol. 1)|passage="The Lord possessed me [= Wisdom] in the beginning of his way, even before his works of old was I set up;" that law, which hath been the pattern to make, and is the '''card''' to guide the world by}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth|I|iii|passage=All the quarters that they know / I' the shipman's '''card'''.}}
# {{lb|en|weaving}} A perforated [[pasteboard]] or sheet-metal plate for [[warp]] [[thread]]s, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a [[loom]].
# {{lb|en|graph theory}} A [[graph]] formed from a given graph by deleting one [[vertex]].
#: {{cot|en|deck}}
# An [[indicator card]].

=====Hyponyms=====
* {{sense|playing cards}} {{l|en|court card}}
* {{sense|piece of plastic}} {{l|en|affinity card}}, {{l|en|credit card}}, {{l|en|debit card}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{der4|en|backcard|bankcard|boardcard|card stunt|borrowing card|model card|Octopus card|party membership card|library card|cardbearer|cardcase|cardholder|cardholding|cardhouse|cardician|cardless|cardlike|cardmaker|cardmaking|cardmember|cardphone|cardplayer|cardplaying|cardroom|cardsharping|cardware|CharlieCard|chewcard|daughtercard|discard|downcard|Eurocard|falsecard|farecard|filmcard|flashcard|flipcard|gamecard|hovercard|hypercard|identicard|lettercard|Mastercard|MetroCard|microcard|noncard|notecard|overcard|passcard|photocard|piecard|plasticard|punchcard|pushcard|racecard|scorecard|showcard|storecard|timecard|travelcard|trollcard|undercard|upcard|wildcard|card stunt|dinner-card|uncredit card
|breast one's cards|chest one's cards|deck of cards|do you accept credit cards|few cards short of a full deck|few cards shy of a full deck|give someone his cards|hand someone his cards|have the cards in one's hands|hold all of the cards|hold all the cards|hold the cards|house of cards|in the cards|keep one's cards close to one's chest|lay one's cards on the table|on the cards|pack of cards|place one's cards on the table|play one's cards well|put one's cards on the table|show one's cards|shuffle the cards|throw in the cards|3 card monte|3-card monte|52-card pickup|accelerator card|altar card|at-home card|black card|blue card|Bod card|cabinet card|calling-card|capture card|card clash|card counter|card counting|card house|card key|card mechanic|card of ten|card punch|card removal|card stand|card stock|card table|card tart|card trick|card-clothing|card-house|card-index|card-room|card-sharp|cash card|chance card|charge card|cheque card|cigarette card|clue card|coat card|community card|comp card|compass card|condolence card|contact card|cooling card|court card|courtesy card|credit card tart|credit card terminal|cue card|cut card|dance-card|death card|discount card|donor card|draft card|duty card|e-card|face card|fare card|fidelity card|file card|file-card|filter card|five-card stud|flash card|gaijin card|gender card|get out of jail free card|get-out-of-jail-free card|gift card|Grace's card|greetings card|hand card|high card|high-card|hole card|Hollerith card|holy card|idiot card|inlay card|J-card|king card|laser card|line card|lobby card|loyalty card|Mass card|maxi card|maxi-card|maximum card|Miranda card|name card|network interface card|note card|one card shy of a full deck|Oyster card|palm card|passport card|pattern card|payment card|peekaboo card|picture card|place card|play the gender card|play the race card|play the victim card|play the Nazi card|player's card|poll card|post card|prayer card|press card|punch card|punched card|QSL card|rabbi card|race card|rape card|ration card|rebbe card|red-card|reward card|rookie card|safety card|scratch card|SD card|sea card|second yellow card|Sed card|seven-card stud|Shirley card|SIM card|sound card|sound-card|speak by the card|sports card|spot card|storm card|straight red card|sympathy card|tart card|tea card|test card|thank you card|three card brag|three-card monte|three-card trick|three-card trickster|trade card|trading card|Uno reverse card|V card|V-card|vanity card|Ventra card|video card|Visa card|visiting card|warrant card|white card|wild card|wild-card|yellow-card|Z card|affinity card
|bank card|audio card|bingo card|boarding card|card catalog|card catalogue|card-reader|e-gift card|HTV card|identification card|Meghdoot card|one card short of a full deck|penalty card|time card|tourist card|union card|wedding card
|give someone their cards|hand someone their cards|play all one's cards|oracle card
|baseball card|shared card|window card
|birthday card
|business card
|calling card|stored-value card
|card assembly
|card-carrying
|cardboard
|card game
|cardistry
|card phone
|cardplay|card of introduction|contactless card|disloyalty card|k'rect card|menage-a-card|three-card marney|three-card shuffle
|card reader
|[[cardshark]], [[card shark]]
|[[cardsharp]], [[card sharp]], [[cardsharper]]
|chargecard
|[[chipcard]], [[chip card]]
|Christmas card
|credit card
|dance card
|debit card
|drawcard
|drawing card
|Ethernet card
|expansion card
|graphics card
|green card
|greeting card
|hold the cards
|how-to-vote card
|ID card
|identity card
|index card
|in the cards
|[[keycard]], [[key card]]
|magnetic card
|mark someone's card
|membership card
|memory card
|network card
|PC Card
|[[phonecard]], [[phone card]]
|playing card
|put one's cards on the table
|postcard
|railcard
|red card
|report card
|SDHC card
|[[smartcard]], [[smart card]]
|soundcard
|[[swipecard]], [[swipe card]]
|tarot card<!-- capitalised? -->
|telephone card
|title card
|trump card
|trust everybody, but cut the cards
|yellow card
|warning card
|Zener card
}}

=====Descendants=====
{{desc-top}}
* {{desc|bor=1|bn|কার্ড}}
* {{desc|bor=1|my|ကတ်}}
* {{desc|bor=1|zh|卡|tr=kǎ}}
* {{desc|bor=1|gu|કાર્ડ}}
* {{desc|bor=1|ha|kati}}
* {{desc|bor=1|hi|कार्ड}}
* {{desc|bor=1|it|card}}
* {{desc|bor=1|ja|カード|tr=kādo}}
* {{desc|bor=1|ko|카드}}
* {{desc|bor=1|ms|kad}}
* {{desc|bor=1|ps|کارډ|tr=kārḍ}}
* {{desc|pih|kaad}}
* {{desc|bor=1|si|කාඩ්}}
* {{desc|bor=1|sw|kadi}}
* {{desc|bor=1|tl|kard}}
* {{desc|bor=1|ur|کارڈ|tr=kārḍ}}
<!--dubious
* {{desc|bor=1|ar|كَارْت|كَرْت}}
* {{desc|bor=1|et|kaart}}
* {{desc|bor=1|ka|კარტი}}
* {{desc|bor=1|ga|cairt}}
* {{desc|bor=1|gd|cairt}}
* {{desc|bor=1|so|khariidoo}}
* {{desc|bor=1|tl|kard}}
* {{desc|bor=1|th|การ์ด}}
-->
{{desc-bottom}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-see|playing card}}

{{trans-see|card game}}

{{trans-top|resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|牌|tr=pái}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|kaart|c}}, {{t+|nl|troef|m}}
* French: {{t+|fr|carte|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ка́рта|f}}, {{t+|ru|ко́зырь|m}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|karta}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.}}
* Afrikaans: {{t|af|kaart}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|kartë|f}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|بِطَاقَة|f}}, {{t|ar|كَارْت|m}}, {{t|ar|وَرَقَة|f}}, {{t|ar|كَرْت|m}}
*: Hijazi Arabic: {{t|acw|بِطَاقَة|f|tr=biṭāga}}, {{t|acw|كَرْت|m|tr=kart}}
* Aragonese: {{t-needed|an}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|քարտ}}
* Aromanian: {{t-needed|rup}}
* Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: {{t|aii|ܘܲܪܵܩܵܐ|tr=wāraqa}}
* Asturian: {{t|ast|tarxeta|f}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|kart}}
* Bashkir: {{t-needed|ba}}
* Basque: {{t|eu|txartela}}, {{t+|eu|txartel}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|ка́рта|f}}, {{t|be|ка́ртка|f}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|কার্ড}}
* Breton: {{t+|br|kartenn|f}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|ка́рта|f}}, {{t|bg|ка́ртичка|f}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|ကတ်}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|carta|f}}, {{qualifier|barbarism}} {{t+|ca|targeta|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|卡|tr=kǎ}}, {{t+|cmn|卡片|tr=kǎpiàn}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|karta|f}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|kort|n}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|kaart|c}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|karto}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|kaart}}
* Faroese: {{t|fo|kort|n}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kortti}}
* French: {{t+|fr|carte|f}}, {{t+|fr|fiche|f}}
* Friulian: {{t|fur|cjarte|f}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|tarxeta|f}}
* Georgian: {{t+|ka|ბარათი}}
* German: {{t+|de|Karte|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|κάρτα|f}}
* Gujarati: {{t|gu|કાર્ડ|m}}
* Hausa: {{t|ha|kati}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|כַּרְטִיס|tr=kartís|m}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|कार्ड|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|kártya}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|kort|n}}
* Ido: {{t+|io|karto}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|kartu}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|cárta|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|scheda|f}}, {{t+|it|carta|f}}, {{t+|it|biglietto|m}}, {{t+|it|card|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|カード|tr=kādo}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|карта}}, {{t|kk|карточка}}
* Khmer: {{t+|km|កាត|tr=kat}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|카드}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t+|ky|карта}}, {{t+|ky|карточка}}
* Lao: {{t|lo|ບັດປະ}}, {{t|lo|ບັດ}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|karšu|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|korta|f}}, {{t|lt|kortelė|f}}
* Luxembourgish: {{t|lb|Kaart|f}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|ка́рта|f}}, {{t|mk|ка́ртичка|f}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|daun}} {{q|archaic}}, {{t+|ms|kartu}} {{q|Riau, Sumatra}}, {{t+|ms|kad}} {{q|Malaysia, Singapore}}
* Mòcheno: {{t|mhn|kòrt|f}}
* Mongolian: {{t+|mn|карт}}
* Norwegian: {{t+|no|kort|n}}
* Pashto: {{t|ps|کارټ|m|tr=kārṭ}}, {{t+|ps|کارډ|m|tr=kārḍ}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|کارت|tr=kârt}}
* Pitcairn-Norfolk: {{t|pih|kaad}}
* Plautdietsch: {{t|pdt|Koat|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|cartão|m}}, {{t+|pt|carta|f}}
* Romanian: {{t|ro|card|n}}, {{t+|ro|carte|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ка́рточка|f}}, {{t+|ru|ка́рта|f}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|cairt|f}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|карта|f|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|sh|картица|f|sc=Cyrl}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|karta|f}}, {{t+|sh|kartica|f}}
* Sinhalese: {{t|si|කාඩ්}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|karta|f}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|karta}}, {{t|sl|kartica|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|carta|f}} {{gloss|paper card for games}}, {{t+|es|tarjeta|f}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|kadi}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|kort}}
* Tagalog: {{t+|tl|kard}}
* Tajik: {{t|tg|варақа}}, {{t+|tg|корт}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|บัตร}}, {{t+|th|การ์ด}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|kart}}
* Turkmen: {{t|tk|kartoçka}}, {{t|tk|karta}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|ка́рта|f}}, {{t+|uk|ка́ртка|f}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|کارڈ|m|tr=kārḍ}}
* Uyghur: {{t|ug|قارتا}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|karta}}, {{t+|uz|kartochka}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|thẻ}}
* Volapük: {{t-needed|vo}}
* Walloon: {{t+|wa|cwåte}}
* Welsh: {{t|cy|cerdyn|m}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|קאָרט|m}}, {{t|yi|קאַרטל|n}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|(informal) amusing person}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|[[令人]][[發笑]]的[[人]]|tr=lìngrén fāxiào de rén}}
* French: {{t+|fr|allumé|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|sagoma|f}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|kadi}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|list of scheduled events}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|plan|n}}, {{t+|nl|agenda|m}}, {{t+|nl|schema|n}}
* French: {{t+|fr|agenda|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|agenda|f}}, {{t+|it|programma|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|план|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|(cricket) tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|kadi}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|greeting card}}
* French: {{t+|fr|carte|f}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|pohľadnica}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Ido: {{t+check|io|karto}}
* Indonesian: {{t+check|id|kartu}}
* Interlingua: {{t-check|ia|carta}}
* Spanish: {{t+check|es|carta|f}}, {{t+check|es|naipe|m}} {{gloss|element of a deck}}, {{t+check|es|tarjeta|f}} {{gloss|computer component, transport ticket}}
{{trans-bottom}}

=====See also=====
{{table:suits/en}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive|US}} To [[check]] [[ID]]s, especially against a minimum age [[requirement]].
#: {{ux|en|They have to '''card''' anybody who looks 21 or younger.}}
#: {{ux|en|I heard you don't get '''carded''' at the other liquor store.}}
#* {{quote-av|en|year=1989|medium=motion picture|writers=Chris Matheson; Ed Solomon|title=Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure|passage=Ted (Keanu Reeves): Whoa. He didn't even '''card''' us, dude. / Bill (Alex Winter): Yeah, we have to remember this place.}}
# {{lb|en|dated}} To [[play]] cards.
# {{lb|en|transitive|golf}} To [[make]] (a stated [[score]]), as [[recorde]]d on a scoring card.
#: {{ux|en|McIlroy '''carded''' a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to check IDs}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|controleren}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[tarkistaa]] [[henkilöllisyys]]}}, {{t|fi|[[kysyä]] [[paperit]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|contrôler}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|legitymować|impf}}, {{t|pl|wylegitymować|pf}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|legitimovať}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|kadi}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|en|enm|carde}}, {{der|en|fro|carde}}, from {{der|en|pro|carda}}, deverbal from {{m|pro|cardar}}, from {{der|en|LL.|*carito}}, from {{der|en|la|carō||to comb with a card}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*(s)ker-||to cut}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}

# {{lb|en|uncountable|dated}} Material with embedded short wire bristles.
# {{lb|en|dated|textiles}} A [[comb]]- or [[brush]]-like [[device]] or tool to [[raise]] the [[nap]] on a [[fabric]].
# {{lb|en|textiles}} A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with [[bristles]] of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into [[yarn]] or [[thread]] on a [[spinning wheel]], with a [[whorl]] or other hand-held [[spindle]]. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
# {{lb|en|dated|textiles}} A [[machine]] for disentangling the [[fibre]]s of [[wool]] [[prior]] to [[spinning]].
# A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|device to raise the nap on a fabric}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|kaarde|f}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|karsta}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|carda|f}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|kadi}}
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{{trans-top|hand-held tool for preparing materials for spinning}}
* Dutch: {{t|nl|kaardplank|c}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|karsta}}
* French: {{t-needed|fr}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|λανάρι|n}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|ξάνιον|n}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|carda|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|pettine|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|zgrzebło|n}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|karda|c}}
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{{trans-top|machine for disentagling the fibres of wool prior to spinning}}
* Dutch: {{t|nl|kaardrol|c}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|karstauskone}}, {{t|fi|karstain}}
* French: {{t+|fr|carde|f}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|kadi}}
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===Etymology 3===
From {{inh|en|enm|carden}}, from {{der|en|fro|carder}}, from {{m|fro|carde|t=cotton card}}; see Etymology 2 for more.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|textiles}} To use a carding device to [[disentangle]] the fibres of wool prior to [[spin]]ning.
#* {{quote-book|1=en|year=1886|translator=H.L. Br&aelig;kstad|author=w:Peter Christen Asbj&oslash;rnsen|title=Folk and Fairy Tales|page=252|passage="Isn't that true, Bertha? " asked the smith. "Yes, every word of it, my lad," said Mother Bertha, who was sitting near the hearth '''carding'''.}}
# To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[comb]] with a card; to [[cleanse]] or [[disentangle]] by carding.
#: {{co|en|to '''card''' a horse}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1757|author=w:John Dyer|title=The Fleece
|passage=the '''carded''' wool, he says, <br>Is smoothly lapp'd around those cylinders}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete|transitive|figuratively}} To [[clean]] or [[clear]], as if by using a card.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1612|author=w:Miguel de Cervantes|translator={{w|Thomas Shelton (translator)|Thomas Shelton}}|title=w:Don Quixote|passage=It is necessary that this book '''carded''' and purged of certain base things.}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete|transitive}} To [[mix]] or [[mingle]], as with an inferior or weaker article.
#* {{quote-book|en|author={{w|Robert Greene (dramatist)|Robert Greene}}| title=A Quip for an Upstart Courtier| year=1592| passage=that '''card''' your beer, if you see your guests begin to be drunk, half small and half strong}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|carder|carding-comb}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to use carding device}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|գզել}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|кардирам}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|cardar}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|kaarden}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|karstata}}
* French: {{t+|fr|carder}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|cardar}}, {{t|gl|ripar}}
* German: {{t+|de|kämmen}}, {{t+|de|krempeln}}, {{t|de|kardätschen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|ξαίνω}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|cardáil}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|cardare}}
* Latin: {{t|la|carminō}}
* Middle English: {{t|enm|tesen}}, {{t|enm|tosen}}, {{t|enm|carden}}
* Navajo: {{t|nv|hainiłchaad}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|gręplować|impf}}, {{t+|pl|zgrzeblić|pf}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|carda}}, {{t+|ro|scărmăna}}, {{t+|ro|dărăci}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|kadi}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|karda}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|кардувати|impf}}
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{{trans-top|to scrape or tear someone’s flesh}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|raapia}}
* Galician: {{t|gl|carpir}}
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===Etymology 4===

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{abbreviation of|en|cardinal||songbird}}

===Etymology 5===
{{etymid|en|chard}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{obsolete form of|en|chard}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:Lexico}}
* {{R:Collins}}
* {{R:American Heritage Dictionary}}
* {{R:Macmillan}}
* {{R:OneLook}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=acdr|DARC|CADR|Drac|RdAc|cadr}}

{{C|en|Paper|People|Spinning}}

==Catalan==

===Etymology===
{{inh+|ca|la|carduus}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{ca-IPA}}
* {{rhymes|ca|aɾt}}
* {{homophones|ca|kart}}

===Noun===
{{ca-noun|m}}

# [[thistle]]

====Derived terms====
{{der3|ca|card girgoler
|card marí
|card marià
|card sant
|card vermell
|cardar
|cardassa
|cardet
|cardiga
|cardó
|cardot
}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|ca|carlet}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:ca:IEC2}}

{{C|ca|Thistles}}

==Italian==

===Etymology===
{{ubor|it|en|card}}, from {{der|it|enm|carde}}, from {{der|it|fro|carte}}, from {{der|it|la|charta}}, from {{der|it|grc|χάρτης}}. {{doublet|it|carta}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{it-pr}}

===Noun===
{{it-noun|f|#}}

# {{l|en|card}} {{gloss|identification, financial, SIM etc., but not playing card}}

===See also===
* {{l|it|scheda}}

==Romanian==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|ro|en|card}}. {{doublet|ro|carte|cartă|hârtie|hartă}}.

===Noun===
{{ro-noun|n|carduri}}

# {{l|en|card}} {{gloss|a payment, gift, loyalty, or memory card}}

====Declension====
{{ro-noun-n-uri}}

===See also===
* {{l|ro|cartelă}}