Card (from Greek Greek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical ancient Greek literature and the New Testament of χάρτης - chartēs, "paper, papyrus") primarily refers to an entire or piece of 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 postcards, playing cards, catalog covers, scrapbooking, and other uses which require higher durability than regular. More generally, the term can refer to a small flat object.
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Card may more commonly refer to:
Surnames
- Andrew Card Andrew Hill "Andy" 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. He announced his resignation as, 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 is an American author, critic, public speaker and conservative political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both of American science, science fiction author
- David Card David Edward Card is a Canadian labour economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Canadian labour economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley
- 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. Since his debut in 1981, he has sold more than 4, American Christian singer-songwriter, author, and radio host
Acronyms
- The Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development, and Stabilisation (CARDS) programme, the European Union's main financial assistance instrument to the Western Balkans
- Caspase recruitment domains, or CARD domains, interaction motifs found in a wide array of proteins
- 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
- CARD, the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act of 2009 signed into law in 2009 by President Obama
Other
- card, in mathematical notation, a function that returns the cardinality In mathematics, the cardinality of a set is a measure of the "number of elements of the set". For example, the set A = {2, 4, 6} contains 3 elements, and therefore A has a cardinality of 3. There are two approaches to cardinality – one which compares sets directly using bijections and injections, and another which uses cardinal numbers of a set
- 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, according to the perceived importance of the matches, the lineup of the matches in an event
- Apple IIe Card The Apple IIe Card is a compatibility card which allows compatible Macs to run software designed for Apple II computers (except the 16-bit Apple IIGS). Released in March 1991 for use with the LC family of Macintosh computers, Apple targeted the card at its widely dominated educational market to ease the transition from Apple II-based classrooms,, a compatibility card
- A tool for carding Carding is a mechanical process that breaks up locks and unorganized 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 teasle, as dried vegetable teasles were first use to comb the raw wool. These ordered fibres can then be passed on to
- Arizona Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American Football team based in Tempe, Arizona. They play their home games in Glendale, Arizona. The Cardinals are members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League (NFL). The Cardinals were founded in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional, a National Football League team nicknamed the "Cards"
- 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 a National League record 10 World Series championships, second only to the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball, a Major League Baseball team nicknamed the "Cards"
The Card
The Card may refer to:
- 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 (a fictitious town based on Burslem). This is accomplished through luck, initiative and a fair bit of chutzpah (in, Arnold Bennett's 1911 novel and the 1952 film derived from it
- "The Card", an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 6) Season Six of the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon, aired 39 episodes from March 3, 2008, to July 19, 2009. The sixth has yet to be released on DVD
See also
- All pages beginning with "Card"
- All pages with titles containing "Card"
- Card game A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary things with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games . Some games have formally standardized rules, while rules for others can vary by region, culture, and person
- Carding (disambiguation)
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