Some articles on card, cards:
... The Oyster card is a form of electronic ticketing used on public transport based in Greater London in England ... A standard Oyster card is a blue credit-card-sized stored-value contactless smartcard that can hold single tickets, period tickets and travel permits, which must be added to the card prior to travel ... The cards may be "recharged" by recurring payment authority, by online purchase, at credit card terminals or by cash, the last two methods at stations or ticket ...
... otherworldliness Commonly this card is associated with the card reader or the querant, because it is also focused on 'secrets' it also interpreted when a secret is kept or revealed, when you are holding on ...
... Marked cards are printed or altered so that the cheater can know the value of specific cards while only looking at the back ... A common way of marking cards involves marks on a round design on the card so as to be read like a clock (an ace is marked at one o'clock, and so on until the ... Shading a card by putting it in the sun or scratching the surface with a razor are ways to mark an already printed deck ...
... A cheat may hand-muck a card or more than one card ... When a cheat is "mucking" the cheat is cleverly hiding cards in his hand, to later switch his/her hand for ... A skilled cheat can deal the second card, the bottom card, the second from bottom card, and the middle card ...
... The standard public Oyster card is blue but colour variants are used by transport staff ... version is issued to TfL Staff A purple card is issued for bus operators A red card is issued to retired TfL Staff A current member of TfL Staff can nominate another person to receive ...
More definitions of "card":
- (verb): Separate the fibers of.
Synonyms: tease
- (noun): A rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures).
Example: "They sent us a card from Miami"
- (noun): A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement.
Synonyms: poster, posting, placard, notice, bill
- (noun): One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes.
Example: "He collected cards and traded them with the other boys"
- (noun): (golf) a record of scores (as in golf).
Example: "You have to turn in your card to get a handicap"
Synonyms: scorecard
- (noun): (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat.
Synonyms: batting order, lineup
- (noun): A card certifying the identity of the bearer.
Example: "He had to show his card to get in"
Synonyms: identity card
- (noun): A list of dishes available at a restaurant.
Synonyms: menu, bill of fare, carte du jour, carte
- (noun): Thin cardboard, usually rectangular.
- (verb): Ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor.
Example: "I was carded when I tried to buy a beer!"
- (noun): A printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities.
Synonyms: circuit board, circuit card, board
Famous quotes containing the word card:
“In the game of “Whist for two,” usually called “Correspondence,” the lady plays what card she likes: the gentleman simply follows suit. If she leads with “Queen of Diamonds,” however, he may, if he likes, offer the “Ace of Hearts”: and, if she plays “Queen of Hearts,” and he happens to have no Heart left, he usually plays “Knave of Clubs.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“There is undoubtedly something religious about it: everyone believes that they are special, that they are chosen, that they have a special relation with fate. Here is the test: you turn over card after card to see in which way that is true. If you can defy the odds, you may be saved. And when you are cleaned out, the last penny gone, you are enlightened at last, free perhaps, exhilarated like an ascetic by the falling away of the material world.”
—Andrei Codrescu (b. 1947)
“I must save this government if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do; but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)