a piece of thick, stiff paper or thin pasteboard, in particular one used for writing or printing on

some notes jotted down on a card

a piece of 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.

your card cannot be used to withdraw more than your daily limit from cash machines

she paid for the goods with her card

a playing card

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

a nine-race card

a person regarded as odd or amusing

He laughed: ‘You're a card, you know’

write (something) on a card, especially for indexing

check the identity card of (someone), in particular as evidence of legal drinking age

we were carded at the entrance to the club

(of an amateur athlete) be in receipt of government funding to pursue training

in 1986–7 all carded athletes received a basic $450 monthly allowance

comb and clean (raw wool, hemp fibres, or similar material) with a sharp-toothed instrument in order to disentangle the fibres before spinning

the wool from the sheep was carded and spun

a toothed implement or machine for carding wool