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foolish
English
Etymology
From Middle English folisch; equivalent to fool +? -ish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fu?.l??/
Adjective
foolish (comparative foolisher or more foolish, superlative foolishest or most foolish)
- (of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
- Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
Synonyms
- absurd
- idiotic
- ridiculous
- silly
- unwise
Antonyms
- wise
Derived terms
- a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
- foolishly
- foolishness
Translations
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card
Translingual
Symbol
card
- (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)
- 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 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.
- 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan
- 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) 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.
- A test card.
- (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
- (dated) A printed programme.
- (dated, figuratively, by extension) 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.
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)
- (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
- (dated) To play cards.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- (golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
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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)
- (uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
- (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
- (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.
- (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- 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)
- (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
- (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dyer to this entry?)
- (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
- (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
card (plural cards)
- 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)
- 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)
- card (identification, financial, SIM etc, but not playing card)
See also
- scheda
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