playing card
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈpleɪɪŋ kɑrd/
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carta
- I have a standard deck of playing cards here.
- a deck of playing cards
He was so obsessed with it, he created playing cards with all of the different elements on.
- He was so obsessed with it, he created playing cards with all of the different elements on.
- To this day, I can barely palm a standard playing card.
- Or maybe, maybe you could fill this with pirate playing cards.
- The way this works is that you load up a deck of playing cards.
- He studied up and learned to calculate odds of dice and playing cards.
- And in the colder months, we would sit underneath the stairs and gamble playing playing cards.
Examples
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Advanced students can use teacher-provided number cards or playing cards to create a number line challenge.
Academic text (2015) -
The mind can be kept occupied by playing card games...
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Now the girls are playing with playing cards that they left for us.
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They were simply playing cards for a mountain of chips worth their weight in gold.
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Cameron is matching playing cards to a number line at his independent workstation.
Academic text (2013) -
On rainy days, travelers would spend hours there writing in their journals, playing cards, or talking and drinking tea.
Academic text (2008) -
Teachers can use Uno or playing cards to teach sequencing numbers or matching numbers to a number line.
Academic text (2013) -
The children spent the afternoon playing with a deck of playing cards on the table.
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During the party, we enjoyed a game of poker using a set of playing cards.
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I brought my favorite playing cards to the gathering, and everyone joined in for a fun game.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small rectangular piece of plastic or cardboard for showing identity and for paying
A playing card used for betting games like poker
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a card used for playing' is directly and compositionally derived from 'playing' (relating to games) + 'card' (a small rectangular item), so a learner who knows both words can infer the MWE. This noun–noun/adj+noun composition is common cross-linguistically and follows a transparent, predictable pattern, making it accessible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Playing card is literally a card made for playing games; people used small, decorated cards to play games or bet, so the name came to mean 'one of the cards used in a card game'.