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1.Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
- Do you have a credit card?
- I'll pay by credit card.
2.A playing card.
- As each card is played in blackjack, it changes the possibilities for both player and dealer by diminishing the number and the variety of cards that may be dealt.
3.Any game using playing cards; a card game.
- He played cards with his friends.
4.A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
- He accused them of playing the race card.
- The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.

1.To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
- They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
- I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store.
- Ted (Keanu Reeves): Whoa. He didn't even card us, dude. / Bill (Alex Winter): Yeah, we have to remember this place.
2.To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
3.To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
- McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.
4.To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- "Isn't that true, Bertha? " asked the smith. "Yes, every word of it, my lad," said Mother Bertha, who was sitting near the hearth carding.

Common· #852

From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”).

Doublet of carte and chart.