Word Type
Card can be a verb or a noun.
card used as a verb:
- To check IDs at a venue with a minimum age requirement
"They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger." - To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- To scrape or tear someone's flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
card used as a noun:
- A playing card.
- Any game using playing cards; a card game.
- A resource or an argument, used to a achieve a purpose.
"The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy." - Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
- An amusing but slightly foolish person.
- A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
"What’s on the card for tonight?" - A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen's scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
- A listing of the runners and riders, together with colours and recent form, for all the races on a particular day at a particular racecourse.
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- A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
- A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
- A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is card?
- Verb usage: They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
- Noun usage: The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy.
- Noun usage: He accused them of playing the race card.
- Noun usage: What’s on the card for tonight?
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of card are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of card, and guess at its most common usage.
Word Type
For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
