different between card vs roster

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

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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.

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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.

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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

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch rooster (“gridiron, table, list”), from Middle Dutch roosten (“to roast”). More at roast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???st?/, /???st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)

Noun

roster (plural rosters)

1. A list of individuals or groups, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit; a muster roll; a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game; or a list of students officially enrolled in a school or class.
   • 2013, William Brinkley, The Last Ship (Penguin, ?ISBN), page 132:

     [So many of] the crew, men and officers alike, read them as to make me feel safe in asserting unreservedly that the Nathan James numbered in her company more Turgenev scholars than any other vessel on the United States Navy's entire roster of ships.

2. A list of the jobs to be done by members of an organization and often with the date/time that they are expected to do them.

Translations

See also

• rota

Verb

roster (third-person singular simple present rosters, present participle rostering, simple past and past participle rostered)

1. To place the name of (a person) on a roster.

Translations

References

• Trains: Railroad locomotive rosters

Anagrams

• Storer, Torres, re-sort, resort, retros, sorter, storer

Middle English

Alternative forms

• roostare

Etymology

From rosten +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??st?r(?)/

Noun

roster

1. (rare, Late Middle English) A roaster (a person who roasts).

Descendants

• English: roaster

References

• “r?ster(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-09.

Spanish

Noun

roster m (plural rosters or roster)

1. (baseball) roster