card

Definitions

• A playing card.
• (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
• A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
• Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
• (obsolete) A map or chart.
• (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
• A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
• (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.
• (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
• A greeting card.
• A business card.
• (television) Title card / 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.
• A test card.
• (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
• (dated) A printed programme.
• (dated) An attraction or inducement.
• A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
• (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
• An indicator card.