Card

What “Card” means

Noun

1. A playing card.
2. Any game using playing cards; a card game.
3. A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
5. A bank card.

Verb

1. To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
2. To play cards.
3. To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

Noun

1. Material with embedded short wire bristles.
2. A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
3. 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.
4. A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
5. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

Verb

1. To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
2. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
3. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
4. To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
5. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

Where the word comes from

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.

From Middle English carde, Old French carde, from Old Occitan carda, deverbal from cardar, from Late Latin *carito, from Latin carō (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

From Middle English carden, from Old French carder, from carde (“cotton card”); see Etymology 2 for more.

Business name ideas with “Card”

Industries where “Card” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Credit Card Issuing
• Greeting Card Publishers