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Meaning:
Noun:
- A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
- Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
- A playing card.
- A resource or an argument, used to a achieve a purpose.
- in plural Any game using playing cards; a card game.
- cricket A batsmen?s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
- English|computing: a device that connects hardware to a main board or some such, see w:Expansion card
- 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.
- informal An amusing but slightly foolish person.
- obsolete A map or chart.
- textiles A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
- textiles A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- 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.
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Verb:
- textiles To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- To check IDs at a venue with a minimum age requirement
- To scrape or tear someone?s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
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