Card
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Card primarily refers to an entire or piece of card stock
Card stock
Card stock, also called cover stock or pasteboard, is a paper stock that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than other forms of paperboard. Card stock is often used for business cards, postcards, playing cards, catalog covers,...

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Card may refer to:

Small flat objects

  • ATM card
    ATM card
    An ATM card is a card issued by a bank, credit union or building society that can be used at an ATM for deposits, withdrawals, account information, and other types of transactions, often through interbank networks.Some ATM cards can also be used:* at a branch, as identification for in-person...

  • Business card
    Business card
    Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid. A business card typically includes the giver's name, company affiliation and contact information such as street addresses, telephone...

  • Charge card
    Charge card
    A charge card is a card that provides an alternative payment to cash when making purchases in which the issuer and the cardholder enter into an agreement that the debt incurred on the charge account will be paid in full and by due date or be subject to severe late fees and restrictions on card...

  • Cigarette card
    Cigarette card
    Cigarette cards are trade cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands.-History:Beginning in 1875, cards depicting actresses, baseball players, Indian chiefs, and boxers were issued by the US-based Allen and Ginter tobacco company. These are...

  • Debit card
    Debit card
    A debit card is a plastic card that provides the cardholder electronic access to his or her bank account/s at a financial institution...

  • Flashcard
    Flashcard
    A flashcard or flash card is a set of cards bearing information, as words or numbers, on either or both sides, used in classroom drills or in private study. One writes a question on a card and an answer overleaf. Flashcards can bear vocabulary, historical dates, formulas or any subject matter that...


  • Gift card
    Gift card
    A gift card is a restricted monetary equivalent or scrip that is issued byretailers or banks to be used as an alternative to a non-monetary gift....

  • Greeting card
    Greeting card
    A greeting card is an illustrated, folded card featuring an expression of friendship or other sentiment. Although greeting cards are usually given on special occasions such as birthdays, Christmas or other holidays, they are also sent to convey thanks or express other feeling. Greeting cards,...

  • Identity document
    Identity document
    An identity document is any document which may be used to verify aspects of a person's personal identity. If issued in the form of a small, mostly standard-sized card, it is usually called an identity card...

     or card
  • Index card
    Index card
    An index card consists of heavy paper stock cut to a standard size, used for recording and storing small amounts of discrete data. It was invented by Carl Linnaeus, around 1760....

  • Keycard lock
    Keycard lock
    A keycard lock is a lock operated by a keycard, a flat, rectangular plastic card with identical dimensions to that of a credit card or American driver's license which stores a physical or digital signature which the door mechanism accepts before disengaging the lock.There are several popular type...

  • Library card
  • Magnetic stripe card
    Magnetic stripe card
    A magnetic stripe card is a type of card capable of storing data by modifying the magnetism of tiny iron-based magnetic particles on a band of magnetic material on the card...


  • Membership card
  • Memory card
    Memory card
    A memory card or flash card is an electronic flash memory data storage device used for storing digital information. They are commonly used in many electronic devices, including digital cameras, mobile phones, laptop computers, MP3 players, and video game consoles...

  • Passport card
    Passport card
    The passport card is an alternative to a passport produced in the United States to meet the documentary requirements of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. The U.S. Passport Card is a wallet-size travel document, issued to U.S...

  • Place card
    Place card
    A place card is a piece of paper indicating what table a guest at an event, such as a wedding or banquet, is assigned to sit. Place cards generally have the guest's name and table number, and frequently have some design as well to add style....

  • Playing card
    Playing card
    A playing card is a piece of specially prepared heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic, marked with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games...

  • Proximity card
    Proximity card
    Proximity card is a generic name for contactless integrated circuit devices used for security access or payment systems. The standard can refer to the older 125 kHz devices or the newer 13.56 MHz contactless RFID cards, most commonly known as contactless smartcards.Modern proximity cards...

  • Punched card
    Punched card
    A punched card, punch card, IBM card, or Hollerith card is a piece of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions...


  • Rebate card
    Rebate card
    A rebate card is a debit card that provides funds promised by a business as a rebate. They are often offered to those who make a specific purchase, or for loyalty to a company by accumulating a certain amount of money or number of points worth of purchases from a particular company.While some...

  • Subscriber Identity Module
    Subscriber Identity Module
    A subscriber identity module or subscriber identification module is an integrated circuit that securely stores the International Mobile Subscriber Identity and the related key used to identify and authenticate subscriber on mobile telephony devices .A SIM is held on a removable SIM card, which...

     card
  • Smart card
    Smart card
    A smart card, chip card, or integrated circuit card , is any pocket-sized card with embedded integrated circuits. A smart card or microprocessor cards contain volatile memory and microprocessor components. The card is made of plastic, generally polyvinyl chloride, but sometimes acrylonitrile...

  • Stored-value card
    Stored-value card
    A stored-value card refers to monetary value on a card not in an externally recorded account and differs from prepaid cards where money is on deposit with the issuer similar to a debit card...

  • Telephone card
    Telephone card
    A telephone card, calling card or phone card for short, is a small plastic card, sized and shaped like a credit card, used to pay for telephone services. It is not necessary to have the physical card except with a stored-value system; knowledge of the access telephone number to dial and the PIN is...

  • Trading card
    Trading card
    A trading card is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing and a short description of the picture, along with other text...

  • Visiting card
    Visiting card
    A visiting card, also known as a calling card, is a small paper card with one's name printed on it. They first appeared in China in the 15th century, and in Europe in the 17th century...



Surnames

  • Andrew Card
    Andrew Card
    Andrew Hill Card, Jr. is a Republican American politician, former United States Cabinet member, and head of President George W. Bush's White House Iraq Group. Card served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President George H. W. Bush and the White House Chief of Staff under George W. Bush...

    , politician, Secretary of Transportation under George H.W. Bush and White House Chief of Staff under George W. Bush
  • Orson Scott Card
    Orson Scott Card
    Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...

    , science fiction author
  • David Card
    David Card
    David Edward Card is a Canadian labour economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.Card earned his B.A. degree from Queen's University in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree in Economics in 1983 from Princeton University....

    , Canadian labour economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Michael Card
    Michael Card
    Michael Card is an American Christian singer-songwriter, musician, author, and radio host from Franklin, Tennessee. He is best known for his contributions in Contemporary Christian Music, which couple folk-style melodies and instrumentation with lyrics that stem from intensive study of the Bible...

    , American Christian singer-songwriter, author, and radio host

Acronyms

  • The Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development, and Stabilisation
    Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development, and Stabilisation
    The CARDS programme, of Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation, is the EU's main instrument of financial assistance to the Western Balkans, covering specifically the countries of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania. It...

     (CARDS) programme, the European Union's main financial assistance instrument to the Western Balkans
  • Caspase recruitment domains, or CARD domain
    CARD domain
    Caspase recruitment domains, or Caspase activation and recruitment domains , are interaction motifs found in a wide array of proteins, typically those involved in processes relating to inflammation and apoptosis. These domains mediate the formation of larger protein complexes via direct...

    s, interaction motifs found in a wide array of proteins
  • Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases
    Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases
    The Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases is based at the Guy's Hospital campus of King's College London, England. It is made up of three research groups including the Receptors and Signalling Group, the Neurorestoration Group and Neurodegeneration and Clinical Trials Group.The centre is...

  • CARD, the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act of 2009
    Credit CARD Act of 2009
    The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 or Credit CARD Act of 2009 is a federal statute passed by the United States Congress and signed by President Barack Obama on May 22, 2009...

     signed into law in 2009 by President Obama
  • Collegiate Aerial Robotics Demonstration, a college-level FIRST
    First
    First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one.First or 1st may also refer to:* First , minor summit below the Schwarzhorn in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland* First , mountain in Bernese Alps in Switzerland...

     competition
  • Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters, a non-profit focused on emergency preparedness or underserved communities.

Other

  • , in mathematical notation, a function that returns the cardinality of a set
  • Card (sports)
    Card (sports)
    In sports, a card comprises a listing of the matches taking place in a title-match combat-sport event. Organizers divide overall cards into a main-event match and the undercard, which encompasses the rest of the matches. One can also further subdivide the undercard into midcard and lower card,...

    , the lineup of the matches in an event
  • Apple IIe Card
    Apple IIe Card
    The Apple IIe Card is a compatibility card which allows compatible Macs to run software designed for Apple II computers...

    , a compatibility card
  • A tool for carding
    Carding
    Carding is a mechanical process that breaks up locks and unorganised clumps of fibre and then aligns the individual fibres so that they are more or less parallel with each other. The word is derived from the Latin carduus meaning teasel, as dried vegetable teasels were first used to comb the raw wool...

  • Arizona Cardinals
    Arizona Cardinals
    The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

    , a National Football League team nicknamed the "Cards"
  • St. Louis Cardinals
    St. Louis Cardinals
    The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...

    , a Major League Baseball team nicknamed the "Cards"
  • An expansion card
    Expansion card
    The expansion card in computing is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an expansion slot of a computer motherboard or backplane to add functionality to a computer system via the expansion bus.One edge of the expansion card holds the contacts that fit exactly into the slot...

    . A type of electronic card used into computer
    Computer
    A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

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  • When used as an verb
    Verb
    A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word that in syntax conveys an action , or a state of being . In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive...

    , to card means to check someone's age by having them present an identity document
    Identity document
    An identity document is any document which may be used to verify aspects of a person's personal identity. If issued in the form of a small, mostly standard-sized card, it is usually called an identity card...

    .
  • Cards
    Cards (iOS)
    Cards is a card creation application developed by Apple for iOS 5. Cards was released on October 12, 2011 to the general public.-Creation:Cards allows users to create cards and obtain them physically...

    , a card making application on iOS.

The Card

The Card may refer to:
  • The Card
    The Card
    The Card is a short comedic novel written by Arnold Bennett in 1911, . It was later made into a 1952 movie starring Alec Guinness and Petula Clark. It chronicles the rise of Edward Henry Machin from washerwoman's son to Mayor of Bursley...

    , Arnold Bennett's 1911 novel
    • The Card (1922 film)
      The Card (1922 film)
      The Card is a 1922 British comedy film directed by A.V. Bramble and starring Laddie Cliff, Hilda Cowley and Joan Barry. It is an adaptation of the novel The Card by Arnold Bennett.-Cast:* Laddie Cliff - Denry Machin* Hilda Cowley - Ruth Earp...

      , based on the novel
    • The Card (1952 film), based on the novel
    • The Card (musical)
      The Card (musical)
      The Card is a musical with a book by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall and music and lyrics by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent.Based on Arnold Bennett's 1911 comedic novel of the same name, it chronicles the rise of Denry Machin from washerwoman's son to Mayor of Bursley through luck, guile, initiative,...

      , based on the novel
  • "The Card", an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 6)
    SpongeBob SquarePants (season 6)
    Season Six of the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon, aired 48 episodes from March 3, 2008, to July 5, 2010. The volume was released in two parts in Region 1, and in its entirety on November 29, 2010.-House Fancy / Krabby Road:...

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