card (original) (raw)
card noun (GAME)
A2 [ C ] (also playing card)
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I've never been much good at cards.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
card noun (INFORMATION)
B1 [ C ] (also business card)
Here, let me give you my card.
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[ C ] (also trading card)
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
card noun (STIFF PAPER)
card noun (COMPUTER)
card noun (PERSON)
[ C ] old-fashioned informal
You're such a card, Patrick!
Idioms
(Definition of card from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
card | American Dictionary
card noun [C] (INFORMATION)
card noun [C] (GAME)
card noun [C] (GREETING)
Idioms
card verb [T] (GET INFORMATION)
(Definition of card from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of card
card
Data were systematically taken from the clinic notes, coded and transferred to punched cards for analysis.
The data were coded to 80-column punch card format and transferred to magnetic tape.
For the rotation plots, sets of cards for all four insecticides used in the rotation schedule were prepared each week for the bioassays.
In a series of transactions that may have taken a matter of mere days, the price per card had climbed by 400 per cent.
On the other, it adds to the reader's convenience in accessing the card catalogue to the book stack.
In our study, each grower was given a set of cards, each printed with a goal or value statement relating to farm management.
Semi-structured and reliable methods of assessing insight counteract this problem to some extent, as does the use of relatively language-free tests such as card sorting.
Well-packaged ones can create a favourable impression, as an elegant business card does.
That is the way minds go on with respect to arranging cards and similar objects to which conventional ordering practices apply.
Pictures were displayed on index cards and came from drawings or photographs matching as many word list items as possible.
The experimenter told the caregiver that she or he was going to see pairs of cards with object drawings and unfamiliar words on them.
On each of four trials, caregivers had to select one of two cards, both of which showed a familiar object bearing an unfamiliar property.
Vigilance in protecting it is no longer a communal calling card.
Overall, vaccination cards were produced by 96 % of children (98 % in rural and 94.3 % in urban settings).
The result was that cards often traded hands several times, appreciating in value each time, before finally being 'cashed in' or caught by the authorities.
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Collocations with card
These are words often used in combination with card.
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It is easy to get a building licence for a bingo card factory, but difficult to get one to build a hotel.
I was fascinated by the mathematics of card counting and of course the lure of big money and the high roller lifestyle.
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It was the world's largest independent credit card issuer, specializing in affinity cards.
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