Card vs. Doffer — What's the Difference?

A piece of thick, stiff paper or thin pasteboard, in particular one used for writing or printing on

A doffer is someone who removes ("doffs") bobbins, pirns or spindles holding spun fiber such as cotton or wool from a spinning frame and replaces them with empty ones. Historically, spinners, doffers, and sweepers each had separate tasks that were required in the manufacture of spun textiles.

A small rectangular piece of plastic containing personal data in a machine-readable form and used to obtain cash or credit or to pay for a telephone call, gain entry to a room or building, etc.

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton or fiber from the cards.

A playing card

A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames.

Short for expansion card

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar, with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the fiber from the cards.

Documents relating to an employee, especially for tax and national insurance, held by the employer.

A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames.

A programme of events at a race meeting

A person regarded as odd or amusing

A toothed implement or machine for carding wool.

Write (something) on a card, especially for indexing.

Check the identity card of (someone), in particular as evidence of legal drinking age

(of an amateur athlete) be in receipt of government funding to pursue training

Comb and clean (raw wool, hemp fibres, or similar material) with a sharp-toothed instrument in order to disentangle the fibres before spinning

One of a set or pack bearing significant numbers, symbols, or figures, used in games and in divination.

A greeting card.

A postcard.

One bearing a person's name and other information, used for purposes of identification or classification.

One bearing the image and often the statistics of a sports figure.

A business card.

A credit card.

A magnetic card.

One used for recording information in a file

A game played with cards.

The playing of games with cards.

A program, especially for a sports event.

A menu, as in a restaurant.

A wine list.

A printed circuit board that plugs into a slot on a computer's motherboard or into a port on the outside of a device, and performs a particular function, such as data storage or converting and processing signals for communication with other devices.

A punch card.

A compass card.

(Informal) An eccentrically amusing person.

Something, such as an advantageous circumstance or tactical maneuver, that can be used to help gain an objective. Often used with play

An appeal to a specified issue or argument, usually one involving strong emotions. Often used with play

A wire-toothed brush or a machine fitted with rows of wire teeth, used to straighten and separate fibers, as of wool, prior to spinning.

A device used to raise the nap on a fabric.

To furnish with or attach to a card.

To list (something) on a card; catalog.

To check the identification of, especially in order to verify legal age.

(Sports) To warn or eject (a soccer player who has committed a flagrant foul) by showing a yellow card or a red card.

To comb out or brush with a card.

A playing card.

(in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.

A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose.

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

(obsolete) A map or chart.

(informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.

A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.

(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.

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

A greeting card.

A business card.

(television) A title card or 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.

A test card.

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

(dated) A printed programme.

An attraction or inducement.

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

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

An indicator card.

Material with embedded short wire bristles.

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

(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.

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

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

Obsolete form of chard

(US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.

(dated) To play cards.

(golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.

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

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

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

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

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

A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.

A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

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

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

An indicator card. See under Indicator.

An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; - usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

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

To play at cards; to game.

To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.

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

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

One of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes;

A card certifying the identity of the bearer;

A rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures);

Thin cardboard, usually rectangular

A witty amusing person who makes jokes

A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement;

A printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited

(golf) a record of scores (as in golf);

A list of dishes available at a restaurant;

(baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat;

A printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities

Separate the fibers of;

Ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor;