English Dictionary

card

noun

A playing card. / (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game. / A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. / Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.

I shuffled the deck and drew a card.

意味（1）

A playing card.

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.

意味（2）

(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.

He played cards with his friends.

意味（3）

A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose.

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

意味（4）

Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.

意味（5）

(obsolete) A map or chart.

As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye […].

意味（6）

(informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.

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.

意味（7）

A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.

What's on the card for tonight?

意味（8）

(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.

意味（9）

(computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.

He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.

意味（10）

A greeting card.

She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.

意味（11）

A business card.

The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.

意味（12）

(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.

意味（13）

A test card.

意味（14）

(dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.

to put a card in the newspapers

意味（15）

(dated) A printed programme.

意味（16）

(dated, figuratively, by extension) An attraction or inducement.

This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

意味（17）

A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.

All the quarters that they know / I' the shipman's card.

意味（18）

(weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.

意味（19）

An indicator card.