CARD - Meaning and Pronunciation
How to pronounce card? This video provides examples of American English pronunciations of card by male and female speakers. In addition, it explains the meaning of card through a dictionary definition and several visual examples. IPA Transcription of card is /kˈɑrd/. Definition of card according to Wiktionary: card can be a noun, a verb or a name As a noun card can mean: 1. A playing card. 2. Any game using playing cards; a card game. 3. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose. 4. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc. 5. A map or chart. 6. An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so. 7. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants. 8. A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen's scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures. 9. A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability. 10. A greeting card. 11. A business card. 12. Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot. 13. A test card. 14. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc. 15. A printed programme. 16. An attraction or inducement. 17. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. 18. A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. 19. An indicator card. 20. Material with embedded short wire bristles. 21. A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric. 22. 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. 23. A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning. 24. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. 25. (songbird). As a verb card can mean: 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. 4. To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning. 5. To scrape or tear someone's flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture. 6. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding. 7. To clean or clear, as if by using a card. 8. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. As a name card can mean: Surname for a carder of wool. If you'd like to test your pronunciation of card, check out Accent Hero's real-time pronunciation feedback tool: https://accenthero.com/app/pronunciat... or our Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
