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Translingual

Symbol

card

1. (mathematics) cardinality

   Synonyms: #, |·|

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kärd
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /k??d/, [k???d]
  • (US) IPA^(key): /k??d/, [k???d]
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ka?d/, [k?ä?d]
  • (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /k??d/, [k???d]
• Hyphenation: card
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek ?????? (khárt?s, “paper, papyrus”). Doublet of chart.

Noun

card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)

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

3. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
5. (obsolete) A map or chart.
6. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
   • 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan

     MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.

     EVE: Oh, Marek, you card.

7. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.

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

10. A greeting card.

11. A business card.

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

15. (dated) A printed programme.
16. (dated, figuratively, by extension) An attraction or inducement.

17. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
18. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
19. An indicator card.

Hyponyms

• (piece of plastic): affinity card, credit card, debit card

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

Verb

card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)

1. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
2. (dated) To play cards.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

3. (golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

Translations

References

Etymology 2

From Middle English carde, Old French carde, from Old Occitan carda, deverbal from cardar, from Late Latin *carito, from Latin car? (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Noun

card (countable and uncountable, plural cards)

1. (uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
2. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
3. (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.
4. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
5. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

Translations

Verb

card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)

1. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
2. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
3. (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Dyer to this entry?)
4. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

card (plural cards)

1. Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).

Anagrams

• CADR, DARC, Drac, cadr

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin carduus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?kart/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophone: kart

Noun

card m (plural cards)

1. thistle

Derived terms

• card marí
• card vermell
• cardar
• cardó

Further reading

• “card” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English card, from Middle English carde, from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek ?????? (khárt?s). Doublet of carta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kard/

Noun

card f (invariable)

1. card (identification, financial, SIM etc, but not playing card)

See also

• scheda

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pl?t, IPA^(key): /ple?t/, [p?l?e?t]
• Homophone: plait
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

Middle English, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.

Noun

plate (plural plates)

1. A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.

   I filled my plate from the bountiful table.

2. (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
3. The contents of such a dish.

   I ate a plate of beans.

4. A course at a meal.

   The meat plate was particularly tasty.

5. (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities

   With revenues down and transfer payments up, the legislature has a full plate.

6. A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.

   A clutch usually has two plates.

7. A vehicle license plate.

   He stole a car and changed the plates as soon as he could.

8. A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
9. A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating

   The bullets just bounced off the steel plate on its hull.

10. A material covered with such a layer.

    If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate.

11. (dated) A decorative or food service item coated with silver or gold.

    The tea was served in the plate.

12. (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
13. (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

    We finished making the plates this morning.

14. (printing, photography) An image or copy.
15. (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
16. (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
17. (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
18. (Cockney rhyming slang) A foot, from "plates of meat".

    Sit down and give your plates a rest.

19. (baseball) Home plate.

    There was a close play at the plate.

20. (geology) A tectonic plate.
21. (historical) Plate armour.

    He was confronted by two knights in full plate.

    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 5, p. 248,^[1]

      He hewd, and lasht, and foynd, and thondred blowes,

      And euery way did seeke into his life,

      Ne plate, ne male could ward so mighty throwes,

      But yeilded passage to his cruell knife.

    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 6, lines 366-368,^[2]

      Two potent Thrones, that to be less then Gods

      Disdain’d, but meaner thoughts learnd in thir flight,

      Mangl’d with gastly wounds through Plate and Maile.

22. (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
23. (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
24. (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.

    Regulating the oscillator plate voltage greatly improves the keying.

25. (obsolete) Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes (from Spanish plata (“silver”)).
    • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,^[3]

      […] realms and islands were

      As plates dropp’d from his pocket.

26. (heraldry) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
27. A prize given to the winner in a contest.
28. (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
29. (aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.
30. (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
31. (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
32. One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
33. A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
34. (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
35. (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
36. (music) A record, usually vinyl.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Maori: pereti
• ? Hindi: ????? (ple?)

Translations

Verb

plate (third-person singular simple present plates, present participle plating, simple past and past participle plated)

1. To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.

   This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.

2. To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.

   After preparation, the chef will plate the dish.

3. (baseball) To score a run.

   The single plated the runner from second base.

4. (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
5. (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
6. (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.

   Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.

7. (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
8. (philately) (particularly with early British stamps) to identify the printing plate used.

Derived terms

• chrome-plated
• chromium-plated
• electroplate
• nickel-plated

Translations

Etymology 2

Middle English, partly from Anglo-Norman plate (“plate, bullion”) and partly from Latin plata (“silver”), from Vulgar Latin *platta (“metal plate”), from feminine of Latin *plattus (“flat”).

Noun

plate (usually uncountable, plural plates)

1. Precious metal, especially silver.
   • At the northern extremity of this chill province the gold plate of the Groans, pranked across the shining black of the long table, smoulders as though it contains fire […]

Anagrams

• -petal, Patel, leapt, lepta, palet, pelta, petal, pleat, tepal

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plat/

Etymology 1

Adjective

plate

1. feminine singular of plat

Noun

plate f (plural plates)

1. Very small flat boat.

Etymology 2

Adjective

plate (plural plates)

1. (Canada, informal) Annoyingly boring.
2. (Canada, informal) Troublesome.

Anagrams

• palet, pelât, petal, leapt, pleat

Further reading

• “plate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latvian

Noun

plate f (5th declension)

1. plate
2. table-leaf
3. (music) record
4. (music) disc
5. (computing) board
6. (computing) card
7. (computing) printed circuit board
8. (computing) circuit board

Declension

Synonyms

• d?lis
• pl?ksne
• pl?tne
• (computing) druk?t?s sh?mas plate
• (computing) sh?mas plate

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse plata, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?.te/, [?pla?.t?]

Noun

plate f or m (definite singular plata or platen, indefinite plural plater, definite plural platene)

1. plate (thin, flat object)
2. record (vinyl disc)

Synonyms

• (flat object): skive

Derived terms

• kokeplate
• plateselskap

References

“plate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse plata, from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús, “broad, flat, wide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²pl??t?/

Noun

plate f (definite singular plata, indefinite plural plater, definite plural platene)

1. plate (thin, flat object)
2. record (vinyl disc)

Synonyms

• (flat object): skive

Derived terms

• kokeplate
• plateselskap

References

“plate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• platte

Etymology

From Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *platta, *plattus.

Noun

plate f (oblique plural plates, nominative singular plate, nominative plural plates)

1. a flat metal disk
2. a flat plate of armor

Descendants

• ? Middle English: [Term?]
  • English: plate
    • ? Maori: pereti
    • ? Hindi: ????? (ple?)
  • Scots: plate
• ? Irish: pláta

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (plate)

Scots

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French plate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plet/, or sometimes IPA^(key): /pl?t/ in the Borders

Noun

plate (plural plates)

1. bowl

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

plate (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. inflection of plata:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

plate (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. third-person plural present of platiti