(US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement. / (dated) To play cards. / (golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

(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) 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.

Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).

Obsolete form of chard.

(automotive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) Alternative spelling of carburetor (“device in an internal combustion engine”)

Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal. / (nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).

(Roman Catholicism) One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)

A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pressure applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the subjacent layers of paper.

(transitive) To create a carbon copy of. / (Internet) To send a duplicate copy of an email to.