(computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
(cricket) 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.
(dated) A printed programme.
(dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
(dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
(dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
(dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
(informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
(obsolete) A map or chart.
(television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
(textiles) 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.
(uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
(weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
A business card.
A greeting card.
A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
A playing card.
A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose.
A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
A test card.
Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
An indicator card.
Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
Obsolete form of chard.
verb
(US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
(dated) To play cards.
(golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
(obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
(obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
(textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
(transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
cdar
cdpr
cdre
cdre
Noun
commodore
cmdr
cord
cord
noun
(anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
(figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (uncountable) such a length of twisted strands considered as a commodity.
A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
Dated form of chord: musical sense.
Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.
verb
To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.