Noun

Singular card

Plural countable and uncountable; plural cards

card (countable and uncountable; plural cards)

1. A playing card.
2. (in plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
3. A resource or an argument, used to a achieve a purpose.

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

   He accused them of playing the race card.

4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
5. (informal) An amusing but slightly foolish person.
   • 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan

     MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.

     EVE: Oh, Marek, you card.

6. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.

   What’s on the card for tonight?

7. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
8. (horse racing) A listing of the runners and riders, together with colours and recent form, for all the races on a particular day at a particular racecourse.

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Derived terms

• baseball card
• birthday card
• business card
• card-carrying
• cardboard
• card game
• card reader
• card shark
• card sharp
• Christmas card
• credit card
• Ethernet card
• expansion card
• graphics card
• green card
• greeting card
• index card
• in the cards

• memory card
• network card
• on the cards
• PCMCIA card
• playing card
• postcard
• red card
• report card
• SDHC card
• soundcard
• tarot card
• yellow card
• warning card
• Zener card

The term card (from Greek χάρτης - chartēs, "paper, papyrus") primarily refers to cardboard or a piece of this. More generally, the term can refer to a small flat object.

Surnames:

• Andrew Card, politician, Secretary of Transportation under George H.W. Bush and White House Chief of Staff under George W. Bush
• Orson Scott Card, science fiction author
• David Card, Canadian labour economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley
• Michael Card, American Christian singer-songwriter, author, and radio host

Acronyms:

• The CARDS programme (Community Assistance for Reconstruction Development and Stabilisation), the European Union's main financial assistance instrument to the Western Balkans
• Caspase recruitment domains, or CARD domains, interaction motifs found in a wide array of proteins
• Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases
• CARD, the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act of 2009 signed into law in 2009 by President Obama

Other:

• Greeting cards
• Playing cards
• Card games
• card, in mathematical notation, a function that returns the cardinality of a set
• Card (sports), the lineup of the matches in an event
• Apple IIe Card, a compatibility card
• A tool for carding

The Card may refer to:

• The Card, Arnold Bennett's 1911 novel and the 1952 film derived from it
  • The Card (musical), based on the novel
• "The Card", an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 6)

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