A playing card.

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

(See play the something card.) A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose.

Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.

(informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.

A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.

(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.

(computing) Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.

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.

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.

(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.

A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).

Obsolete form of chard.

(US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.

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

(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.