card – English noun declension

English noun forms of card

Noun: card
Singularcard
Pluralcards

Sample Sentences

  • As each card is played in blackjack, it changes the possibilities for both player and dealer by diminishing the number and the variety of cards that may be dealt. [1963 January 25, “Games: Beating the Dealer”, in Time:]
  • He played cards with his friends.
  • The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
  • He accused them of playing the race card.
  • Having adopted civil union as their goal, proponents of the Civil Union Bill were sensitive to the need not to overplay the human rights card, aware that there was a significant degree of resistance in the New Zealand […] [2007, Luke McNamara, Human Rights Controversies: The Impact of Legal Form, page 138:]
  • Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all. [2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 24:24 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:]
  • Cashier: "Cash or card? Customer: "I'm paying on my phone, so card."
  • Do you have any card? I want to make a poster.
  • As pilot well expert in perilous waue, / Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye […]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:]
  • "He's a cheery old card," muttered Harry to Jack / As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. / . . . / But he did for them both by his plan of attack. [1918, Siegfried Sassoon, The General:]
  • MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.
  • EVE: Oh, Marek, you card. [2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan:]
  • 'What a card!' Doreen said. 'Isn't he a card?' [1963, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Faber and Faber:]
  • What's on the card for tonight?
  • He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet.
  • The button will "see" the cursor through a card domain graphic; you can then change button graphics on each card. [1993, Danny Goodman, The Complete HyperCard 2.2 Handbook, page 198:]
  • The interaction model of WAP, originally developed for mobile phones to interact with information services in a web-like way, was based on Apple's HyperCard, and instead of pages, the user interacted with a deck of cards, which were interlinked by a scripting language. [2008, Johan Hjelm, Why IPTV?: Interactivity, Technologies, Services, page 13:]
  • The basic building blocks of WML applications are cards. Cards are equivalent to HTML pages. Just as Web browser can show only one page at a time (except when using frames), a WAP enabled device can also show only one card at a time. [2012, Veljko Milutinovic, Frédéric Patricelli, Mastering E-Business Infrastructure, page 329:]
  • She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby.
  • The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house.
  • You can make most theory answers without cards, but some cards do exist which specifically criticize kritiks on a theoretical basis. [2011, N. Andre Cossette, The Art of Debate: 12th Edition, page 123:]
  • to put a card in the newspapers
  • This will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
  • "The Lord possessed me [= Wisdom] in the beginning of his way, even before his works of old was I set up;" that law, which hath been the pattern to make, and is the card to guide the world by [1594, Richard Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, 1.2.5, page 153 (Everyman edition, vol. 1):]
  • All the quarters that they know / I' the shipman's card. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
  • Where's your card? I want to see your grades.

Etymology

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'carde', Latin Nouns 'charta', Ancient Greek Nouns 'χάρτης'.

Verbs referencing "card"

Romanian Nouns card, Spanish Nouns carta, French Nouns cartel, Galician Nouns carda, German Nouns Karte.