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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.
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     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.

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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.
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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: r?n, IPA^(key): /?e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Homophones: reign, rein

Etymology 1

From Middle English reyn, rein, from Old English r?n, re?n (“rain”), from Proto-West Germanic *regn, from Proto-Germanic *regn? (“rain”) (compare West Frisian rein, Dutch regen, German Regen, Danish and Norwegian regn), of uncertain origin. Possibly from pre-Germanic *Hré?-no-, from Proto-Indo-European *Hre?- (“to flow”) (compare Latin rig? (“wet, soak”), Lithuanian rõki (“drizzling rain”), Albanian rrjedh (“to flow, drip”)), although the consonant reflexes don't match.

Alternative forms

• rayne, raygne (obsolete)

Noun

rain (usually uncountable, plural rains)

1. Condensed water falling from a cloud.
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     This process involves cloud seeding – when various substances are put into clouds in an attempt to cause rain.

2. (figuratively) Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.
3. (figuratively) An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.

Usage notes

• shower, downpour, drop are some of the words used to count rain.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hydrometeor

Derived terms

• Also see terms derived from the verb

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: alen

Translations

See rain/translations § Noun.

Verb

rain (third-person singular simple present rains, present participle raining, simple past and past participle rained)

1. (impersonal) To have rain fall from the sky.

2. (intransitive) To fall as or like rain.

3. (transitive) To issue (something) in large quantities.

Derived terms

• Also see terms derived from the noun

Translations

See rain/translations § Verb.

Etymology 2

Verb

rain (third-person singular simple present rains, present participle raining, simple past and past participle rained)

1. Obsolete form of reign.

   • Such wondrous science in mans witt to rain.

See also

• drizzle
• hail
• mizzle
• precipitation
• serein
• shower
• sleet
• snow
• storm
• Wikipedia article on rain

Anagrams

• ARIN, Arin, Iran, Irân, Ir?n, NIRA, Nair, RNAi, Rani, Rian, Rina, arni, rani

Japanese

Romanization

rain

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Kavalan

Noun

rain

1. waves in the open sea

Sera

Noun

rain

1. water

References

• Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (2010, ?ISBN, page 333
• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

Sissano

Noun

rain

1. water

References

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)
• John Nystrom, Sissano Organised Phonology Data (1992) (as rayn several times in a story; compare ranrayn "wet")