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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: car coat - cardiac cycle</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="carcoat"> car coat,<DL COMPACT><DD> a short topcoat for casual wear. Ex. We come upon a patch-pocket car coat of caramel beaver, mid-thigh length (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="card"> card (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a flat piece of stiff paper, thin cardboard, or plastic, usually small and rectangular. A card is designed to have written or printed matter on it. Ex. a postal card, a membership card. <DD> 2a. a piece of cardboard or paper, often folded, bearing ornamental designs and greetings, sent to persons on special occasions. Ex. a Christmas card, a birthday card. <DD> b. a rectangular piece of thin pasteboard bearing a person's name, or name, business, and address. Ex. Tradesmen left their cards, and were eager to supply the new household (Thackeray). <DD> 3a. a printed program of events at boxing matches, races, and the like. <DD> b. =scorecard. <DD> 4. the series of items forming a program or list. <DD> 5. one of a pack of cards, used in playing games; playing card. Cards are typically arranged in four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs), of 13 each (two to ten, jack, queen, king, ace). <DD> 6. a round piece of paper or pasteboard on which the 32 points of the compass, and usually the degrees of a circle, are marked. Ex. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale (Alexander Pope). <DD> 7. (Informal.) an odd, original, or amusing person. Ex. [She] is the wag, the card, the dreadfully cheerful joker (Punch). <DD> 8. a plan or means. Ex. a doubtful card. <DD>v.t. 1. to provide with a card or cards. <DD> 2. to write or enter on a card or cards; list. <DD> 3. to score. Ex. Ike finished the round, carding a flashy 40 (Time). <DD> 4. to fix on a card; attach to a card. <DD> 5. to attach by means of a card. Ex. His name was carded upon three staterooms (Edgar Allan Poe). expr. cards, <DD> a. a game or games played with a pack of playing cards. <DD> b. playing such games. Ex. Many of the people at the party were busy at cards. expr. card up one's sleeve, a plan in reserve; extra help kept back until needed. Ex. There was no question in Western capitals that the Russians had many more cards up their sleeves (New York Times). expr. give cards and spades, (U.S. Informal.) to give or concede a generous advantage (in allusion to the scoring in cassino). Ex. The calentura [a tropical fever] can give cards and spades to yellow fever in the game of death (New York World). expr. hold all the cards, to have complete control (over). Ex. Ask [him] about politics; he holds all the cards (New Yorker). expr. in (or on) the cards, likely to happen; possible. Ex. It was on the cards [that] Ireland should not belong to France (John Stuart Mill). expr. lay (or put) one's cards on the table, to show what one has or can do; be perfectly frank about something. Ex. Let them [writers] actually lay their cards on the table, so that critics, reviewers, and other serious students of literature can see at a glance what it is they wish to say (Atlantic). expr. pack cards with, (Archaic.) to make a cheating arrangement with. Ex. The poor King tried ... to pack cards with fortune (Justin H. McCarthy). expr. play one's cards, to deal or act in a calculating manner to gain an end. Ex. If you play your cards well, the old man will leave you all his money. expr. play the ______card, to use a (specified) tactic to gain an advantage. Ex. He plays the human rights card by noting that violators such as Argentina ... and Ethiopia were recipients of some $600 millions (Manchester Guardian Weekly). expr. show one's cards, to reveal one's plans. Ex. He was a hard-boiled guy, and he had learned his lesson ... He wasn't going to show his cards to nobody again (James T. Farrell). expr. speak by the card, to speak precisely. Ex. I speak by the card in order to avoid entanglement of words (Benjamin Jowett). expr. stack the cards, to arrange secretly or unfairly. Ex. In purely economic terms the cards are now stacked heavily in the companies' favor (Manchester Guardian Weekly). The way the cards are stacked against a young fellow today, I can't say I approve of early marriages (Sinclair Lewis). expr. sure (or safe, likely, etc.) card, <DD> a. a certainty or likelihood. Ex. We have one sure card, which is to carry him before Justice Frolick (Henry Fielding). <DD> b. a person whose action, or the use of whose name, will ensure success. Ex. Consider me a sure card in that line (John P. Kennedy). expr. throw up one's cards, to give up. Ex. He ... threw up his cards and foreswore his game for that time and always (Thomas Hardy). </DL> <A NAME="card"> card (2), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1a. a toothed tool or wire brush used to separate, clean, and straighten the fibers of wool, cotton, flax, or the like, before spinning. <DD> b. =carding machine. <DD> 2. a wire brush used to clean the grooves of a metal file. <DD> 3. a similar instrument for raising a nap on cloth. <DD>v.t. to clean or comb with such a tool or wire brush, or in a carding machine. Ex. to card wool for spinning. noun carder. </DL> <A NAME="card"> Card.,<DL COMPACT><DD> cardinal. </DL> <A NAME="cardamine"> cardamine, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of plants of the mustard family, including the common lady's-smock or cuckoo-flower; bitter cress. </DL> <A NAME="cardamom"> cardamom or cardamum, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the fruit and aromatic seeds of an East Indian herb of the ginger family, used as seasoning and in medicine. It is grown in India, Malaya, and Jamaica. <DD> 2. this plant or various related plants whose seeds are used as inferior substitutes. </DL> <A NAME="cardamon"> cardamon, noun. =cardamom.</DL> <A NAME="cardanjoint"> Cardan joint, =universal joint.</DL> <A NAME="cardboard"> cardboard, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a stiff material made of layers of paper pressed together, used to make cards and boxes; paperboard. <DD>adj. having the flat, stiff characteristics of a piece of cardboard; two-dimensional; unreal. Ex. a cardboard hero. </DL> <A NAME="cardcarrier"> card-carrier, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an official member of an organization. Ex. He aims to push through a constitutional revision disciplining members who follow the Communist line--whether cardcarriers or not (Wall Street Journal). </DL> <A NAME="cardcarrying"> card-carrying, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. holding a card which signifies membership in an organization, or which entitles the holder to certain privileges. Ex. the millions of workers who are just card-carrying members and who take no interest in union affairs (Wall Street Journal). <DD> 2. being officially a member (of the organization specified). Ex. A New York actor testified he was a card-carrying Communist in 1946-47 (Wall Street Journal). <DD> 3. (Figurative.) being easily identified as (a special type); typical. Ex. ... a card-carrying representative of the modern condition (New Yorker); ... the card-carrying capitalists of the labor movement (Harper's). </DL> <A NAME="cardcase"> cardcase, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a case for carrying visiting cards. </DL> <A NAME="cardcatalog"> card catalog or catalogue,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a catalog in the form of a card index for helping people find books in a library, information in a file, or items in a collection, each book or item being entered on a separate card. Ex. Guided by the attendant to a bank of mahogany card catalogue files at one end of the room, he began flicking his way through them knowingly (New Yorker). <DD> 2. any card index. Ex. a card catalog of paintings. </DL> <A NAME="carded"> carded, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> prepared by a card or carding machine. Ex. carded yarn. </DL> <A NAME="cardel"> cardel, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a barrel or cask formerly used by whalers. </DL> <A NAME="cardfile"> card file,<DL COMPACT><DD> a collection of systematically arranged cards which contain information. Ex. The Zoo keeps a card file of the complete life history of each animal (Harper's). </DL> <A NAME="cardholder"> cardholder, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who carries a card signifying his membership in an organization, or entitling him to certain privileges. Ex. Only a cardholder may borrow books from the library. <DD> 2. a person or thing that holds a card. Ex. the cardholder of a stereoscope. </DL> <A NAME="cardia"> cardia, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the orifice which connects the esophagus and the upper part of the stomach. </DL> <A NAME="cardiac"> cardiac, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. Also, cardial. 1. of or having to do with the heart. Ex. cardiac disease, cardiac arteries. <DD> 2. having to do with the upper part of the stomach. <DD>noun 1. a person who has heart disease. Ex. I was lucky, and like every other cardiac, I enjoyed talking about my case (Harper's). <DD> 2. a medicine that stimulates the heart. <DD> 3. =stomachic. </DL> <A NAME="cardiacal"> cardiacal, adjective. =cardiac.</DL> <A NAME="cardiacarrest"> cardiac arrest,<DL COMPACT><DD> heart failure, especially in a potentially functional heart. Electric shock and drowning cause cardiac arrest. </DL> <A NAME="cardiacasthma"> cardiac asthma,<DL COMPACT><DD> labored breathing due to imperfect action of the heart. </DL> <A NAME="cardiaccycle"> cardiac cycle,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a complete pulsation of the heart, including dilation and contraction; heartbeat. <DD> 2. the time in which a complete pulsation takes place. </DL> <A HREF="cardiacm.dic">NEXT</A>