plural of Card / (sports) Initialism of St. Louis Cardinals.

(idiomatic) Likely to occur, probable.

card games

(idiomatic) Destined or fated to happen; predicted or foreseen.

plural of card

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of card

simple past tense and past participle of card

(textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning. / To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.

(US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement. / (dated) To play cards. / (golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).