A playing card. / (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game. / A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. / Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.

(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.

plural of card

card games

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of card

(idiomatic) Destined or fated to happen; predicted or foreseen.