carded

We have found lemma(root) word of carded : card.

Definitions


[kɑːd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a piece of thick, stiff paper or thin pasteboard, in particular one used for writing or printing on
(e.g: some notes jotted down on a card)

- a small rectangular piece of plastic containing personal data in a machine-readable form and used to obtain cash or credit or to pay for a phone call, gain entry to a room or building, etc.
(e.g: your card cannot be used to withdraw more than your daily limit from cash machines)

- a playing card
(e.g: a pack of cards)


- documents relating to an employee, especially for tax and national insurance, held by the employer

- a programme of events at a race meeting
(e.g: a nine-race card)

- a person regarded as odd or amusing
(e.g: He laughed: ‘You're a card, you know’)


Phrases:
- a card up one's sleeve
- get one's cards
- give someone their cards
- hold all the cards
- on the cards
- play one's cards right
- play the — card
- put one's cards on the table

Origin:
late Middle English (in sense 3 of the noun): from Old French carte, from Latin carta, charta, from Greek khartēs ‘papyrus leaf’


[kɑːd], (Verb)

Definitions:
- write (something) on a card, especially for indexing

- check the identity card of (someone), in particular as evidence of legal drinking age
(e.g: we were carded at the entrance to the club)

- (of an amateur athlete) be in receipt of government funding to pursue training
(e.g: in 1986–7 all carded athletes received a basic $450 monthly allowance)


Phrases:
- a card up one's sleeve
- get one's cards
- give someone their cards
- hold all the cards
- on the cards
- play one's cards right
- play the — card
- put one's cards on the table

Origin:
late Middle English (in sense 3 of the noun): from Old French carte, from Latin carta, charta, from Greek khartēs ‘papyrus leaf’


[kɑːd], (Verb)

Definitions:
- comb and clean (raw wool, hemp fibres, or similar material) with a sharp-toothed instrument in order to disentangle the fibres before spinning
(e.g: the wool from the sheep was carded and spun)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French carde, from Provençal carda, from cardar ‘tease, comb’, based on Latin carere ‘to card’


[kɑːd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a toothed implement or machine for carding wool


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French carde, from Provençal carda, from cardar ‘tease, comb’, based on Latin carere ‘to card’




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