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PRONUNCIATION OF WILD-CARD

wild-card  [ˈwaɪldkɑːd] play
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WHAT DOES WILD-CARD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Wild card

Wild card may refer to: ▪ Wild card, a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games ▪ Wild card, a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play ▪ Wild card, low-probability, high-impact events...

Definition of wild-card in the English dictionary

The definition of wild-card in the dictionary is of or relating to a player or team that has not qualified for a competition but is allowed to take part, at the organizers' discretion, after all the regular places have been taken.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WILD-CARD


battle-scarred
ˈbætəlˌskɑːd
card
kɑːd
discard
dɪsˈkɑːd
e-card
ˈi:kɑːd
Jacquard
ˈdʒækɑːd
MasterCard
ˈmɑːstəˌkɑːd
notecard
ˈnəʊtˌkɑːd
placard
ˈplækɑːd
postcard
ˈpəʊstˌkɑːd
red-card
ˌrɛdˈkɑːd
scarred
skɑːd
scorecard
ˈskɔːˌkɑːd
yellow-card
ˌjɛləʊˈkɑːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WILD-CARD

wild rye
wild service tree
wild silk
wild Spaniard
wild strawberry
wild track
wild type
wild water
Wild West
Wild West show
wild-eyed
wild-goose chase
wild-water
wildcat
wildcat strike
wildcatted
wildcatter
wildcatting
Wilde
wildebeest

WORDS THAT END LIKE WILD-CARD

birthday card
business card
Christmas card
credit card
debit card
false-card
flash card
graphics card
green card
ID card
master card
memory card
Picard
play the race card
report card
smart card
store card
trading card
voter registration card
wild card

Synonyms and antonyms of wild-card in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wild-card» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WILD-CARD

Find out the translation of wild-card to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wild-card from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wild-card» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

通配符
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

comodín
570 millions of speakers

English

wild-card
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वाइल्ड कार्ड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بطاقة البرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дикого карты
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

wild-card
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বন্য-কার্ড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

wild-card
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kad liar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wild-Card
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ワイルドカードの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

와일드 카드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kertu liar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

wild-card
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காட்டு அட்டை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाइल्ड-कार्ड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

joker
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

wild-card
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Karta dzikiego
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дикого карти
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

wild -card
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άγριου- κάρτα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wilde -kaart
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

wild - card
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

wild -card
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wild-card

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WILD-CARD»

The term «wild-card» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.721 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WILD-CARD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «wild-card» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «wild-card» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wild-card

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WILD-CARD»

Discover the use of wild-card in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wild-card and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Wild Card
Returning to Texas three years after a mission went disastrously wrong, leaving him a captive and his wife believing that he is dead, Navy SEAL Nathan Malone is forced to assume a new identity in order to woo the woman he had left behind, ...
Lora Leigh, 2012
2
Wild Card
It was supposed to be simple.
Lora Leigh, 2008
3
Dudley Murphy, Hollywood Wild Card
Follows the life of Hollywood's first independent filmmaker known for "The Emperor Jones" and "Ballet mâecanique."
Susan Delson, 2006
4
Wild Card
Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber. From across the room he heard Ronde sigh. 4WINS& #0;THINK�ALIKE, he told himself. “Honor roll, dude!” Tiki bragged, holding up his report card for the whole lunch table to see. “Gimme that!” said Paco. “This is ...
Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber, 2012
5
Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958
Republished for a new generation of readers, this extraordinary autobiography of one of Australia's most celebrated female writers, Dorothy Hewett, traces the personal and political metamorphoses of her first 35 years.
Dorothy Hewett, 2012
6
The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul de Man
One of the most knowledgeable and provocative explicators of Paul de Man's writings, Rodolphe Gasché, a philosopher by training, demonstrates for the first time the systematic coherence of the critic's work, insisting that de Man continues ...
Rodolphe Gasché, 1998
7
Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home
By the author of "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood" comes the story of a woman's return to her childhood home in Baxley, Georgia. 20 illustrations.
Janisse Ray, 2004
8
Wild Card
The scene is set for a high-stakes game of sexual exploration. When the wild card keeps changing it's difficult for even the most accomplished player to know who's bluffing and who is telling the truth.
Madeline Moore, 2010
9
Wild Card
A tale for children of one girl's experience with a mice plague in rural Australia. Stacey knows farms and animals well but the mice challenge her to see the wider view of nature.
Josephine Croser, 1994
10
Wild Card
Elite superhero team Vanguard Prime has a new mission .
Steven Lochran, 2013

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Wild-Card [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/wild-card-1>. Apr 2024 ».
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