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card

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information

 [countable] a small piece of plastic or paper containing information about a person or showing, for example, that they belong to a particular organization, club etc:

Employees must show their identity cards at the gate.

I haven't got my membership cardyet.

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money

 [countable] a small piece of plastic, especially one that you get from a bank or shop, which you use to pay for goods or to get money:

Lost or stolen cards must be reported immediately.

a £10 phone card

Every time you use your store card, you get air miles.

➔ charge card, cheque card, credit card,debit card

3

greetings

 [countable] a piece of folded thick stiff paper with a picture on the front, that you send to people on special occasions

birthday/Christmas/greetings etc card

a Mother's Day card

4

holiday

 [countable] a card with a photograph or picture on one side, that you send to someone when you are on holiday [= postcard]:

I sent you a card from Madrid.

5

stiff paper

 [uncountable] British English thick stiff paper[↪ cardboard]:

Cut a piece of white card 12 × 10cm.

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for writing information

 [countable] a small piece of thick stiff paper that information can be written or printed on:

a set of recipe cards

a score card

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games

 [countable]

a) a small piece of thick stiff paper with numbers and signs or pictures one side. There are 52 cards in a set [= playing card]

pack/deck of cards (=a complete set of cards)

b) game in which these cards are used:

I'm no good at cards.

We were having a game of cards.

Let's play cards.

a book of card games

c) a small piece of thick stiff paper with numbers or pictures on them, used to play a particular game:

a set of cards for playing Snap

8

 football/baseball etc card

a small piece of thick stiff paper with a picture on one side, that is part of a set which people collect

9

business

 [countable] a small piece of thick stiff paper that shows your name, job, and the company you work for; [= business card; ↪ visiting card]:

My name's Adam Carver. Here's my card.

10

computer

 [countable] the thing inside a computer that the chips are attached to, that allows the computer to do specific things:

a graphics card

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 be on the cards

British English, be in the cards American English to seem likely to happen:

At 3-1 down, another defeat seemed to be on the cards.

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 play your cards right

to deal with a situation in the right way, so that you are successful in getting what you want:

If he plays his cards right, Tony might get a promotion.

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 put/lay your cards on the table

to tell people what your plans and intentions are in a clear, honest way:

What I'd like us to do is put our cards on the table and discuss the situation in a rational manner.

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 play/keep your cards close to your chest

to keep your plans, thoughts, or feelings secret

15

 get/be given your cards

British English informal to have your job taken away from you

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 have another card up your sleeve

to have another advantage that you can use to be successful in a particular situation

17

 trump/best/strongest card

something that gives you a big advantage in a particular situation:

The promise of tax cuts proved, as always, to be the Republican Party's trump card.

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 somebody's card is marked

British English if someone's card is marked, they have done something that makes people in authority disapprove of them

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person

 [countable] old-fashionedinformal an amusing or unusual person:

Fred's a real card, isn't he!

20

sport

 [countable] a small piece of stiff red or yellow paper, shown to a player who has done something wrong in a game such as football

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list at sports event

 [countable] a list of races or matches at a sports event, especially a horse race:

a full card of 120 riders for the Veterans race

22

tarot

 [countable] a small piece of thick stiff paper with a special picture on one side, that is put down in a pattern in order to tell someone what will happen in their future

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tool

 [countable] technical a tool that is similar to a comb and is used for combing, cleaning, and preparing wool or cotton for spinning

➔ hold all the cards

 at hold1 (30)

 ➔ play the race/nationalist/environmentalist etc card

 at play1 (14)

 ➔ stack the cards

 atstack2 (4)

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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clothes‧line [countable]

a long thin rope on which you hang clothes to dry outdoors [= washing line British English]

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Comic strip by Ed Stein: to root for

To support an idea plan or person - synonyms or related words for To support an idea plan or person - Macmillan Dictionary and Thesaurus:

Verb

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root for - take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for; "We all rooted for the home team"; "I'm pulling for the underdog"; "Are you siding with the defender of the title?" pull side - take sides for or against; "Who are you widing with?"; "I"m siding against the current candidate" The free dictionary

Chimamanda Ngozi: Purple Hibiscus

pages 31-32

(...) “Yes sah! Tank sah!” They   dash out of to run or go somewhere very quickly because you are in a hurry the compound, laughing loudly.

Kevin and Sunday unpacked the foodstuffs while Jaja and I unpacked the suitcases

from the Mercedes. Mama went to the backyard with Sisi to put away the cast iron

cooking tripods. Our food would be cooked on the gas cooker inside the kitchen, but the

metal tripods would balance the big pots that would cook rice and stews and soups for

visitors. Some of the pots were big enough to fit a whole goat. Mama and Sisi hardly did

any of that cooking; they simply stayed around and provided more salt, more Maggi

cubes, more utensils, because the wives of the members of our umunna came over to do

the cooking. They wanted Mama to rest, they said, after the stress of the city. And every

year they took the leftovers—the fat pieces of meat, the rice and beans, the bottles of soft

drink and maltina and beer—home with them afterward. We were always prepared to

feed the whole village at Christmas, always prepared so that none of the people who

came in would leave without eating and drinking to what Papa called a reasonable level

of satisfaction. Papa’s title was omelora, after all, The One Who Does for the

Community. But it was not only Papa who received visitors; the villagers trooped to

every big house with a big gate, and sometimes they took plastic bowls with firm

covers. It was Christmas.

Jaja and I were upstairs unpacking when Mama came in and said, “Ade Coker

came by with his family to wish us a merry Christmas. They are on their way to Lagos.

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Chimamanda Ngozi: Purple Hisbiscus

Ade Coker was a small, round, laughing man. Every time I saw him, I tried to imagine him writing those editorials in the Standard; I tried to imagine him defying the soldiers. And I could not. He looked like a stuffed doll, and because he was always smiling, the deep dimples in his pillowy cheeks looked like permanent fixtures, as though someone had sunk a stick into his cheeks. Even his glasses looked dollish: they were thicker than window louvers an opening in a door or window that has one or more slanted strips, tinted a strange  bluish having a blue tinge; slightly blue. shade, and framed in white plastic. He was throwing his baby, a perfectly round copy of himself, in the air when we came in. His little daughter was standing close to him, asking him to throw her in the air, too.

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Chimamanda Ngozi: Purple Hisbiscus

“What is he doing in my house? What is Anikwenwa doing in my house?” The enraged timber in Papa’s voice made my fingers cold at the tips. Se me quedaron heladas las puntas de mis dedos Jaja and I dashed to the window, and because we could see nothing, we dashed out to the verandah and stood by the pillars. Papa was standing in the front yard, near an orange tree, screaming at a wrinkled old man in a torn white singlet con una camiseta Blanca rasgada and a wrapper wound round his waist. A few other men stood around Papa. “What is Anikwenwa doing in my house? What is a worshiper of idols un adorador de ídolos doing in my house? Leave my house!” “Do you know that I am in your father’s age group, gbo?” the old man asked. The finger he waved in the air was meant for Papa’s face, but but it only hovered around his chest.permanecía en su pecho “Do you know that I sucked my mother’s breast when your father sucked his mother’s?” “Leave my house!” Papa pointed at the gate. Two men slowly ushered Anikwenwa out of the compound. dos hombres acompañaron a Anikwerwa fuera del recinto He did not resist; he was too old to, anyway. But he kept looking back and throwing words at Papa. “Ifukwa gi! You are like a fly blindly following a corpse into the grave!Eres como una mosca siguiendo ciégamente un cadaver hasta la tumba. I followed the old man’s unsteady gait el inestable paso del viejo until he walked out through the gates. 40

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A catnap            catnap   catnaps   A catnap is a short sleep, usually one which you have during the day. (INFORMAL) N-COUNT  also cat-nap.   = doze, nap   From Collins Dictionary.

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