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 removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
An indicator card.
A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
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 greeting card.
A playing card.
Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
Any game using playing cards; a card game.
A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
A business card.
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.
A test card.
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose.
To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
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.
A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.
The pincushionplant, a flowering plant in the genus Navarretia.
A flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum.
The dustymaiden, a flowering plant in the genus Chaenactis.
A person who is pricked or stabbed multiple times with sharp objects; specifically, someone who receives regular hypodermic needle injections.
The coral bead plant, coral moss, or English baby tears (Nertera granadensis), an ornamental plant.
A flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa.
The pincushion cactus, of the genera Escobaria or Mammillaria.
To jab or stick repeatedly with one or more sharp objects, as with pins into a pincushion.
To assume the shape of a pincushion; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit pincushion distortion, where the sides curve inwards.