carded
/kˈɑɹdɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Involving the disentangling of fibers with a carding device.
adj
adj
Straightly aligned, as if combed.
adj
Listed officially on an information card.
adj
verb
simple past and past participle of card
Example Sentences
- "Mr. Whitman holds up the National Association of Wool Manufacturers as the representative of the carded woolen manu- facturers of the United States."
- "In the manufacture of worsted yarn the carded wool must be passed through combing machines until all the fibers lay parallel to each other."
- "The carded twills include three- and four-leaf herringbone twill and three- and fou -leaf regular twill."
- "Last year the difference in gain of the uncarded steers over the carded was comparatively large."
- "There they stretched in a carded drift of fierce white fire, smouldering in the resplendent blue, and consumed by its own intensity."
- "If it accepts a car as safe and subsequently a wreck occurs, while it cannot evade its responsibility for the wreck by attributing the failure to a carded defect ; if in place of settling for the car it elects to make the repairs , be they light or heavy , it clearly has the right to collect from the owner of the car on so unquestioned a defect as a broken side sill , which is carded for by the owner of the car."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more carded (comparative)
most carded (superlative)