ace
Translingual
Symbol
ace
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”). Doublet of as. Likely related or deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs, or otherwise taking from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”) in the sense of singular.
Noun
ace (plural aces)
- (card games, dice games) A single point or spot on a playing card or die normally indicating it as the prime, i.e. first and forefront. (in playing cards, of that series)
- Synonym: pip
- (card games, dice games) A card or die face so marked.
- I have the ace of diamonds.
- The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
- 1961, The Hustler (film): a character is calling his next shot
- Ace in the corner.
- 1961, The Hustler (film): a character is calling his next shot
- (US, slang) A dollar bill.
- 1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King (page 136)
- […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.
- 1996, Arthur M. Smith, Robert Thomas King, Let's Get Going (page 65)
- 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.
- 1990, David F. Friedman, Don DeNevi, A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-film King (page 136)
- A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
- c. 1658 Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue :
- He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 45:
- I'LL not wag an ace farther: The whole World ſhall not bribe me to it;
- c. 1658 Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue :
- (tennis) A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
- (sports) A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
- (US, baseball) The best pitcher on the team.
- (US, baseball, dated, 19th century) A run.
- (US, golf, disc golf) A hole in one.
- (sometimes attributive) An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person owning a "first rank" talent.
- an ace detective
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 4:
- ‘Weston, the ace of theatrical agents.’
- 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Mexican ace Dos Santos smashed home the third five minutes later after good work from Defoe.
- A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
- (US) A perfect score on a school exam.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- (physics, obsolete) A quark.
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Derived terms
- ace boon coon
- ace in a day
- ace in the hole
- ace of aces
- ace of clubs
- ace of diamonds
- ace of hearts
- ace of spades
- aces and eights
- aces and spaces
- ace up one's sleeve
- air ace
- bate an ace (see bate)
- be aces with
- black 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
- jet ace
- panzer ace
- return ace
- six-ace flat
- submarine ace / ace of the deep
- tank ace / tanker ace
- U-boat ace
- within ames ace
- within an ace of
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Verb
ace (third-person singular simple present aces, present participle acing, simple past and past participle aced)
- (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
- (tennis) To win a point by an ace.
- (golf) To make an ace (hole in one).
Synonyms
- (to pass a test): pass with flying colours
Derived terms
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Adjective
ace (comparative more ace, superlative most ace)
- (UK, slang) Excellent.
- Synonyms: excellent, first-rate, outstanding
Usage notes
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See also
Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text) | ||||||
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ace | deuce, two | three | four | five | six | seven |
eight | nine | ten | jack, knave | queen | king | joker |
Etymology 2
From asexual by shortening.
Adjective
ace (comparative more ace, superlative most ace)
- (slang) Asexual, not experiencing sexual attraction.
- Synonym: (slang) asexy
- 2009, Anneli Rufus, "Asexuals at the Pride Parade", Psychology Today, 22 June 2009:
- "Some people who identify as ace fall under the GLBT umbrella while many others do not. Members of the queer movement have reached out to asexuals to include them in their community. The acronym for this has now become GLBTQA (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and asexual)."
- 2010, Amy Ebersole, "Asexuality, not to be confused with celibacy", The Daily Aztec (San Diego State University), 25 January 2010:
- “I was 14 when I first realized I had no interest in sex,” Jed Strohm, a happily satisfied, romantic asexual from upstate New York, said. “I identified as ace (asexual) and the group leader said I was too attractive.”
- 2013, Andrea Garcia-Vargas, "Ourselves, our sex, our choices", The Eye, 28 March 2013:
- “If you identify as ace [asexual] and you just don’t feel like having sex, then for me, sex-positive means, ‘That’s great! It’s fantastic you don’t want to have sex!’” says McGown.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ace.
Derived terms
Noun
ace (plural aces)
- (slang) A person who is asexual.
- 2012, Tasmin Prichard, "Freedom from Desire: Some Notes on Asexuality", Salient (Victoria University of Wellington), 23 July 2012, page 20:
- Asexuals are programmed differently, like anybody else on the LGBTQXYZ spectrum, but difference is cool! Difference is perhaps the best part of being queer. Own it, aces!
- 2013, Leigh Miller, "(A)Sexual Healing", Jerk (Syracuse University), Volume XII, Issue V, April 2013, page 23:
- Negativity toward asexuality can make emerging aces fear that something is wrong with them.
- 2014, Emma Ianni, "New Group to Bring Awareness Of C. U. Asexual Community", The Cornell Daily Sun (Cornell University), Volume 130, Number 81, 4 February 2014, page 1:
- G. F. said she came up with the idea of creating an asexual group last semester, when she was struggling with the way being an ace was affecting her personal life.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ace.
- 2012, Tasmin Prichard, "Freedom from Desire: Some Notes on Asexuality", Salient (Victoria University of Wellington), 23 July 2012, page 20:
See also
- (aromantic): aro
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
ace m (plural aces)
Further reading
- “ace”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
- From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "nan-hok" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. or Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "zhx-teo" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. of 阿姐 (â-chè, â-che, “elder sister”).
- From Cantonese or Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "zhx-teo" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. of 阿姐 (“elder sister”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ace (plural ace-ace, first-person possessive aceku, second-person possessive acemu, third-person possessive acenya)
- elder sister in Chinese communities.
- a term of address to Chinese woman.
Further reading
- “ace” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ace m (invariable)
References
- ^ ace in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈa.keː/, [ˈäkeː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.t͡ʃe/, [ˈäːt͡ʃe]
Verb
(deprecated template usage) acē
Portuguese
Noun
ace m (plural aces)
Romanian
Noun
ace
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English as, from Old French as (“ace”), from Latin as, assis (“as (Roman coin)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Mid Northern" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /is/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Southern" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /js/
Noun
ace (plural aces)
References
- “ace, n.1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
Spanish
Noun
ace m (plural aces)
Ternate
Pronunciation
Noun
ace
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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