Card meaning

Noun: card

Pronunciation: (kaa(r)d)

Card meaning:

• One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes

• A rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures)

• A card certifying the identity of the bearer

Synonyms: identity card, ID card 

• Thin cardboard, usually rectangular

• A witty amusing person who makes jokes

Synonyms: wag, wit, dag 

• A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement

Synonyms: poster, posting, placard, notice, bill 

• A printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited

Synonyms: calling card, visiting card 

• (golf) a record of scores (as in golf, etc.)

Synonyms: scorecard, scoresheet 

• A list of dishes available at a restaurant

Synonyms: menu, bill of fare, carte 

• (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat

Synonyms: up 

• A printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer’s capabilities

Synonyms: in
Verb: card

Pronunciation: (kaa(r)d)

Card meaning:

• Separate the fibers of

Synonyms: tease 

• Ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor

Derived forms: carding, carded, cards
Quotations:

1. Rosemarie Urquico – You should date a girl who reads.Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. 
2. Maya Angelou – Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
3. Markus Zusak – I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.
4. Marissa meyer – It’s all right, said Wolf. You loved her. I would feel the same if someone wanted to erase Scarlet’s identity and give it to Levana’s army.Scarlet stiffened, heat rushing into her cheeks. He certainly wasn’t insinuating. Did Wolf just say that he loves Scarlet? That’s so cute. Scarlet cringed. He did not do that wasn’t, She balled her fists against her sides. Can we get back to these soldiers that are being rounded up, please? Is she blushing? She sounds like she’s blushing. She’s blushing, Thorne confirmed, shuffling the cards. Actually, Wolf is also looking a little flustered.
5. Stephen King – A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I’ll take A Midsummer Night’s Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.
6. Cassandra Clare – I think I may be in love with you, Sophie, said Will. Marriage could be in the cards.
7. Wendell Berry – Love the quick profit, the annual raise,vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die.And you will have a window in your head.Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer.When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord.Love the world. Work for nothing.Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it.Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.Ask the questions that have no answers.Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant,that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold.Call that profit. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts.As soon as the generals and the politico scan predict the motions of your mind,lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn’t go.Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary,some in the wrong direction.Practice resurrection.

Sample sentences:

1. Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.
2. Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
3. But Dumbledore says he doesn’t care what they do as long as they don’t take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
4. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
5. Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives and to the good life, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
6. Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card.
7. Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters  sometimes very hastily , but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, Dear Jim: I loved your card. Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, Jim loved your card so much he ate it. That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
8. One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
9. That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.
10. Wow, Cross. I think you missed your calling. Screw demon hunting: you should clearly be writing Hallmark cards.
11. In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred in decisions, for a hundred visions and revisions we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.
12. Remember this. The people you’re trying to step on, we’re everyone you depend on. We’re the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you’re asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life.We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re just learning this fact. So don’t fuck with us.
13. God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn’t. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.
14. Closing The Cycle One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents’ house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden?You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won’t take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill.None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the ideal moment. Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person – nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need. This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important.Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.
15. I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.
16. Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it.
17. Hey, Nana, people’s feelings change easily what you see is a house of cards nothing’s sure, and nothing lasts forever.
18. Once, when a coreligionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn’t that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition.
19. Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another.
20. Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.