carding

USKARD-ing/ˈkɑɹdɪŋ/SayKAHD-ingUK/ˈkɑːdɪŋ/AUS/ˈkaːdɪŋ/

Noun pluralcardings (some meanings)

4 meanings of carding

1
verb
Present participle of card. Use this -ing form when the action is happening right now.
The bouncer is carding everyone at the entrance tonight.
Carding the fleece by hand takes real patience.
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2
noununcountable
The crime of stealing credit card numbers and selling them to other people.
Like copying many house keys and selling them to thieves.
Police shut down a website used for carding last year.
He was arrested for carding after stealing thousands of card numbers.
3
nouncountable
A roll of wool combed smooth by a special machine, ready to be spun.
Like a fluffy roll of cotton candy, but made of soft wool to be spun into thread.
She placed each carding on the table beside the spinning wheel.
The mill produced hundreds of cardings every day.
4
nounCanadacountable or uncountable
When police stop someone to ask questions and record their details, though no crime has happened.
Like being stopped and written down in a notebook even when you have done nothing wrong.
Many young people complained about being stopped by police during carding.
The city council voted to ban carding after years of protest.
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carding is a form of card

card, verb: To check someone's ID, especially to make sure they are old enough. Full entry

Forms: cardcards he/she/itcarding -ing formcarded past tense, past participle
Spelling: card → carding: add -ing

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