Word Meaning

card definition and meaning

n. A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.
n. A vehicle adapted to the rails of a railroad.
n. A chariot of war or of triumph; a vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity.
n. The stars also called Charles's Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper.
n. The cage of a lift or elevator.
n. The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.
n. A floating perforated box for living fish.
n. A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
n. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
n. A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
n. An indicator card. See under Indicator.
v. i. To play at cards; to game.
n. An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.
n. A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
v. t. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.
v. t. To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
v. t. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

Crossword clues for card

- Auto
- Automobile
- Coupe or sedan
- Family sedan
- Four-door saloon
- Gas guzzler
- Jalopy
- Limousine
- Model-T or Lamborghini
- Motor vehicle
- Powered road vehicle
- Rail coach
- Road vehicle
- Scarier part of train
- Section of train
- Sedan
- Sedan or coupe
- Tracy Chapman hit, Fast ...
- Train coach in Nicaragua
- Vehicle
- Vehicle reverses into Graceland
- Vehicle seen in front of caravan
- Vehicle type
- Vehicle used in Nicaragua
- Game piece
- Hinder in law
- Jack perhaps turned up on deck
- Label
- Place in a ship’s hold
- Program of events
- Retained
- Stiff paper
- Thick, stiff paper
- Wit