Card (n.) A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses |
Card (n.) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like |
Card (n.) A paper on which the points of the compass are marked |
Card (n.) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard. |
Card (n.) An indicator card. See under Indicator. |
Card (v. i.) To play at cards |
Card (n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc. |
Card (n.) A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. |
Card (v. t.) To comb with a card |
Card (v. t.) To clean or clear, as if by using a card. |
Card (v. t.) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. |
Crown-post (n.) Same as King-post. |
Ex post facto () Alt. of Ex postfacto |
King-post (n.) A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post. |
Lamp-post (n.) A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc. |
Post- () A prefix signifying behind, back, after |
Post (a.) Hired to do what is wrong |
Post (n.) A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else |
Post (n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers |
Post (n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed |
Post (n.) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route |
Post (n.) A military station |
Post (n.) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. |
Post (n.) A messenger who goes from station |
Post (n.) An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another |
Post (n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. |
Post (n.) One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. |
Post (n.) A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument |
Post (n.) A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper. |
Post (v. t.) To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices |
Post (v. t.) To hold up to public blame or reproach |
Post (v. t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. |
Post (v. t.) To assign to a station |
Post (v. t.) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger |
Post (v. t.) To place in the care of the post |
Post (v. t.) To inform |
Post (v. i.) To travel with post horses |
Post (v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. |
Post (adv.) With post horses |
Post-abdomen (n.) That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax |
Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy |
Post-disseizin (n.) A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor |
Post-disseizor (n.) A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. |
Post-fine (n.) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed |
Post-mortem (a.) After death |
Post note () A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. |
Post-obit () Alt. of Post-obit bond |
Post-obit bond () A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. |
Post office (n.) See under 4th Post. |
Post-temporal (a.) Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull |
autopsy necropsy postmortem post-mortem PM postmortem examination post-mortem examination | an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease |
post | the delivery and collection of letters and packages, it came by the first post, if you hurry you'll catch the post |
post office | a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters |
card game cards | a game played with playing cards |
card trick | a trick performed with playing cards |
position post berth office spot billet place situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
powder-post termite Cryptotermes brevis | extremely destructive dry-wood termite of warm regions |
post horse post-horse poster | a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers |
baseball card | a trading card with a picture of a baseball player and information about his playing record |
card | one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes, he collected cards and traded them with the other boys |
card index card catalog card catalogue | an alphabetical listing of items (e.g., books in a library) with a separate card for each item |
card table | a small light table with folding legs, can be folded for storage |
card table | a table for playing cards (as in a casino) |
circuit board circuit card board card plug-in add-in | a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities |
command post general headquarters GHQ | military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces |
compass card mariner's compass | compass in the form of a card that rotates so that degrees or North points to magnetic north |
corner post | a square post supporting a structural member at the corner of a building |
country store general store trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
drawing card loss leader leader | a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers |
face card picture card court card | one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face |
gaming card | one of a set of cards used in gambling games |
hinging post swinging post | the gatepost on which the gate is hung |
hitching post | a fixed post with a ring to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying |
hole card | (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown |
house of cards cardhouse card-house cardcastle | an unstable construction with playing cards, he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed |
king post | post connecting the crossbeam to the apex of a triangular truss |
military post post | military installation at which a body of troops is stationed, this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby, there is an officer's club on the post |
newel post newel | the post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, it supports the handrail |
playing card | one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games |
post | an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position, he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them |
post and lintel | a structure consisting of vertical beams (posts) supporting a horizontal beam (lintel) |
post chaise | closed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels, formerly used to transport passengers and mail |
post exchange PX | a commissary on a United States Army post |
posthole post hole | a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post |
posthole digger post-hole digger | a shovel used to sink postholes |
post horn | wind instrument used by postilions of the th and th centuries |
posthouse post house | an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders |
Post-Office box PO Box POB call box letter box | a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for |
post road | a road over which mail is carried |
punched card punch card Hollerith card | a card on which data can be recorded in the form of punched holes |
queen post | vertical tie post in a roof truss |
shutting post | the gatepost against which the gate closes |
tarot card tarot | any of a set of (usually ) cards that include cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc., used by fortunetellers |
telephone pole telegraph pole telegraph post | tall pole supporting telephone wires |
trading card | a card with a picture on it, collected and traded by children |
trump trump card | a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps, the ace of trumps is a sure winner |
whipping post | post formerly used in public to which offenders are tied to be whipped |
wild card | a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it |
calling card | a distinguishing characteristic or behavior, bombs are a terrorist's calling cards |
post hoc post hoc ergo propter hoc | the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation |