card
verb/kɑːd/
/kɑːrd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they card | /kɑːd/ /kɑːrd/ |
| he / she / it cards | /kɑːdz/ /kɑːrdz/ |
| past simple carded | /ˈkɑːdɪd/ /ˈkɑːrdɪd/ |
| past participle carded | /ˈkɑːdɪd/ /ˈkɑːrdɪd/ |
| -ing form carding | /ˈkɑːdɪŋ/ /ˈkɑːrdɪŋ/ |
- card something (specialist) to clean wool using a wire instrument
- card somebody to show a yellow card or red card to a player in sports such as football (soccer), rugby and hockey because they have broken the rules
- She was carded in the 72nd minute for a reckless tackle.
- The player was yellow-carded following a rant at the official.
- The replay clearly showed the offence for which he was red-carded.
- card somebody (North American English, informal) to ask a person to show their identity card, especially as a means of checking how old they are, for example if they want to buy alcohol
Word Originverb sense 2 late Middle English (originally in sense 8 of the noun): from Old French carte, from Latin carta, charta, from Greek khartēs ‘papyrus leaf’. verb sense 1 late Middle English: from Old French carde, from Provençal carda, from cardar ‘tease, comb’, based on Latin carere ‘to card’.
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