carders: significado e definições

A flat, usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, cardboard, or plastic, especially: One of a set or pack bearing significant numbers, symbols, or figures, used in games and in divination. A greeting card. A postcard. One bearing a person's name and other information, used for purposes of identification or classification. One bearing the image and often the statistics of a sports figure. A business card. A credit card. A magnetic card. One used for recording information in a file: an index card; a recipe card.

(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Games A game played with cards. The playing of games with cards.

A program, especially for a sports event.

A menu, as in a restaurant. A wine list.

Computers A printed circuit board that plugs into a slot on a computer's motherboard or into a port on the outside of a device, and performs a particular function, such as data storage or converting and processing signals for communication with other devices. A punch card.

A compass card.

Informal An eccentrically amusing person.

Something, such as an advantageous circumstance or tactical maneuver, that can be used to help gain an objective. Often used with play:"[He believed that] Soviet Russia .. had far more Iranian cards to play than the United States"(Theodore Draper). An appeal to a specified issue or argument, usually one involving strong emotions. Often used with play:"His exposure as a racist .. allowed the defense to play the race card"(New York Times).

To furnish with or attach to a card.

To list (something) on a card; catalog.

To check the identification of, especially in order to verify legal age.

Sports To warn or eject (a soccer player who has committed a flagrant foul) by showing a yellow card or a red card.

A wire-toothed brush or a machine fitted with rows of wire teeth, used to straighten and separate fibers, as of wool, prior to spinning.

A device used to raise the nap on a fabric.