The difference between Bill and Card

When used as nouns, bill means any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an anglo-saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff, whereas card means a playing card.

When used as verbs, bill means to dig, chop, etc., with a bill, whereas card means to check ids, especially against a minimum age requirement.


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  1. Bill as a noun:

    Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.

  2. Bill as a noun:

    A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.

  3. Bill as a noun:

    Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Strype"

  4. Bill as a noun:

    A pickaxe, or mattock.

  5. Bill as a noun (nautical):

    The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).

  1. Bill as a verb (transitive):

    To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

  1. Bill as a noun:

    The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.

  2. Bill as a noun:

    A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.

  3. Bill as a noun:

    Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.

  1. Bill as a verb (obsolete):

    To peck.

  2. Bill as a verb:

    To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.

  1. Bill as a noun:

    A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)

  2. Bill as a noun:

    A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)

  3. Bill as a noun:

    A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

  4. Bill as a noun (obsolete, legal):

    A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.

  5. Bill as a noun (US):

    A piece of paper money; a banknote.

  6. Bill as a noun:

    A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.

  7. Bill as a noun:

    A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods

    Examples:

    "synonyms: placard poster handbill"

  8. Bill as a noun:

    A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. A bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.

  9. Bill as a noun:

    A set of items presented together.

  1. Bill as a verb (transitive):

    To advertise by a bill or public notice.

  2. Bill as a verb (transitive):

    To charge; to send a bill to.

  1. Bill as a noun:

    The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

  1. Card as a noun:

    A playing card.

  2. Card as a noun (in the plural):

    Any game using playing cards; a card game.

    Examples:

    "He played cards with his friends."

  3. Card as a noun:

    A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.

    Examples:

    "The government played the Orange card to get support for their Ireland policy."

    "He accused them of playing the race card."

  4. Card as a noun:

    Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.

  5. Card as a noun (obsolete):

    A map or chart.

  6. Card as a noun (informal):

    An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.

  7. Card as a noun:

    A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.

    Examples:

    "What’s on the card for tonight?"

  8. Card as a noun (cricket):

    A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen's scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.

  9. Card as a noun (computing):

    A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.

    Examples:

    "He needed to replace the card his computer used to connect to the internet."

  10. Card as a noun:

    A greeting card.

    Examples:

    "She gave her neighbors a card congratulating them on their new baby."

  11. Card as a noun:

    A business card.

    Examples:

    "The realtor gave me her card so I could call if I had any questions about buying a house."

  12. Card as a noun (television):

    Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.

  13. Card as a noun:

    A test card.

  14. Card as a noun (dated):

    A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.

    Examples:

    "to put a card in the newspapers"

  15. Card as a noun (dated):

    A printed programme.

  16. Card as a noun (dated, figurative, by extension):

    An attraction or inducement.

    Examples:

    "This will be a good card for the last day of the fair."

  17. Card as a noun:

    A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.

  18. Card as a noun (weaving):

    A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.

  19. Card as a noun:

    An indicator card.

  1. Card as a verb (US):

    To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.

    Examples:

    "They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger."

    "I heard you don't get carded at the other liquor store."

  2. Card as a verb (dated):

    To play cards.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Johnson"

  1. Card as a noun (uncountable, dated):

    Material with embedded short wire bristles.

  2. Card as a noun (dated, textiles):

    A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.

  3. Card as a noun (textiles):

    A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.

  4. Card as a noun (dated, textiles):

    A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

  5. Card as a noun:

    A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

  1. Card as a verb (textiles):

    To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

  2. Card as a verb:

    To scrape or tear someone's flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.

  3. Card as a verb (transitive):

    To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.

    Examples:

    "to card a horse"

  4. Card as a verb (obsolete, transitive, figuratively):

    To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

  5. Card as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

  1. Card as a noun:

    (songbird)