Card-sharp

Definition

card 1 /kɑ:d/ n ၁။ [U,C] ကတ္ျပား။ a piece of card ❍ an identity card ❍ a record card ❍ a membership card. See also CASHCARD, CHEQUE CARD, CREDIT CARD ၂။ [C] = BUSINESS CARD: I'll give you my card, in case you have any further enquiries. See also VISITING CARD ၃။ [C] (က) ေမြးေန႔ေမတၱာပို႔ကတ္ျပား။ a Christmas/birthday card ❍ a get-well card (ie one sent to sb who is ill). (ခ) = POSTCARD: David sent us a card from Spain. ၄။ [C] = PLAYING-CARD: a pack of cards. ၅။ cards [pl] ဖဲကစားျခင္း။ win/lose at cards ❍ Let's play cards. ၆။ [C] ပြဲစဥ္။ ၆။ [C] ပြဲစဥ္။ ၇။ [C] ( dated infml ) အူ ေၾကာင္ေၾကာင္လူ။ Bertie's quite a card. ❏ one's best/strongest card [ IDM ] ေဆြးေႏြးရာ၌ အထိ ေရာက္ဆံုး အခ်က္။ ❏ card-carrying adj ပါတီဝင္ကတ္ျပား ကိုင္ေဆာင္ထား ေသာ။ a card-carrying member of the Communist party. ❏ card-game n ဖဲကစားနည္းမ်ား။ Bridge, poker and whist are card-games. ❏ card index n = index ၁ (ခ) ❏ card-sharp (also card-sharper ) n ဖဲလိမ္သမား။ ❏ card-table n (ဖဲကစားရာ၌သံုးေသာ) ေခါက္စားပြဲ။ ❏ (have) a card up one's sleeve [ IDM ] ဝွက္ဖဲ။ ❏ card vote n = Block vote ❏ get one's cards/give sb their cards [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလုပ္မွျဖဳတ္သည္။ ❏ hold/keep one's cards close to one's chest [ IDM ] လွ်ဳိထားသည္။ ❏ lay/put one's cards on the table [ IDM ] ပြင့္လင္းမႈ။ We can only reach agreement if we both put our cards on the table. ❏ on the cards [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလားအလာရိွသည္။ An early wedding certainly looks on the cards. ❏ play one's cards well , right , etc [ IDM ] အကြက္ပိုင္ သည္။ You could end up running this company if you play your cards right. card 2 /kɑ:d/ n သိုးေမြးမ်ားကို ၿဖီးသင္ရာ၌သံုးေသာ ကိရိယာ။ v ထိုကိရိယာျဖင့္ ၿဖီးသင္သည္။

Examples

1. She sent me a lovely card on my birthday.
2. [a card says/reads something] : The card read
3. ‘Get Well Soon! Love from all at the office’.
4. [birthday/Christmas/get-well etc card] : Did we get a Christmas card from your brother this year?
5. I scribbled a quick card to my parents.
6. I’ve always been lucky at cards.
7. [play cards] : Let’s play cards this evening.
8. [game of cards] : There’s time for a quick game of cards.
9. The cards never lie.
10. She said she had seen our future in the cards.
11. I handed the assistant my library card.
12. I can’t find my membership card for the sports centre.
13. [flash a card] : They said they were police and flashed cards at us.
14. Let me give you my card.
15. To register with the doctor you need your medical card.
16. I looked at my score card.
17. A collection of recipe cards
18. There are six events on the card today.
19. I gave the waiter my card.
20. She produced her Visa card and paid the bill.
21. [someone’s strongest/best/trump/winning card] : His strongest card was his friendship with the prince.
22. You’ll have to install a new Ethernet card.
23. The White House claimed that returning Guantanamo Bay to Cuba was off the cards.