ace
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
card-games
dice
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sports
tennis
volleyball
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”), probably borrowed from Etruscan. Doublet of as.
Inflected forms:
form: aces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: acing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more ace
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ace
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.
pos: noun
examples: You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
gloss: A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
pos: noun
gloss: The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
pos: noun
examples: Ace in the corner.
gloss: A dollar bill.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.
If they got too many aces (dollar bills) or fives or tens, they turned them in to the vault where they became part of the reserve.
gloss: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
pos: noun
examples: He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
I'LL not wag an ace farther: The whole World ſhall not bribe me to it;
gloss: A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
pos: noun
gloss: A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: The best pitcher on the team.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A run.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
obsolete
gloss: A hole in one.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: "Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year.
gloss: An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person of supreme talent.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
sometimes
examples: an ace detective
‘Weston, the ace of theatrical agents.’
Mexican ace Dos Santos smashed home the third five minutes later after good work from Defoe.
gloss: A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
pos: noun
gloss: A perfect score on a school exam.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
pos: noun
gloss: A quark.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
pos: verb
tags: US
informal
transitive
gloss: To defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition.
pos: verb
tags: US
ambitransitive
informal
gloss: To win a point against (an opponent) by an ace.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To make an ace (hole in one).
pos: verb
gloss: Excellent.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
Derived words: ace bare
ace boon coon
aceboy
acegirl
ace-high
ace in a day
ace in the hole
aceless
aceness
ace of aces
ace of clubs
ace of diamonds
ace of hearts
ace of queen
ace of spades
ace of the deep
ace point
aces and eights
aces and spaces
ace up one's sleeve
acey-deucey
air ace
bate an ace
be aces with
black ace
chase the ace
Chinese ace
duty ace
easy aces
eights and aces
fighter ace
flying ace
gray ace
hold all of the aces
hold all the aces
hold the aces
jet ace
panzer ace
return ace
six-ace flat
submarine ace
tank ace
tanker ace
U-boat ace
within ames ace
within an ace of
ace into
ace out
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