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Cardinal
01
kardinaal, rode vogel
a North American songbird with a red beak, the male of which has bright red plumage
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They spotted a pair of cardinals building a nest in the maple tree.
Ze zagen een paar kardinalen een nest bouwen in de esdoorn.
02
kardinaalgetal, machtigheid
(mathematics) the number of elements or members in a set, representing its size or quantity
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If a set is empty, its cardinal is zero.
Als een set leeg is, is zijn kardinaliteit nul.
03
(in the Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of senior clergy who advise the Pope and elect his successor
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The Pope appointed three new cardinals to the College of Cardinals.
04
a vivid shade of red, often resembling the color of a cardinal's feathers
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Cardinal became the school's official team color.
05
hoofdtelwoord, kardinaalgetal
(grammar) a part of speech that is used in counting or showing a quantity
Voorbeelden
The grammar exercise asked students to identify all cardinals in the text.
cardinal
Approving
FormalVoorbeelden
Understanding the cardinal concepts of mathematics is crucial for solving complex problems.
Het begrijpen van de kardinale concepten van wiskunde is cruciaal voor het oplossen van complexe problemen.
02
relating to numbers that express how many of something there are as opposed to ordinal numbers, which express position
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A cardinal numeral shows quantity, such as " four apples, " rather than order.
Lexicale Boom
cardinalship
cardinal
