ace
aces; aced; acing
An ace is a playing card with the highest value in a deck. There are four aces in a full deck of cards, each with a single heart, spade, diamond, or club pictured on it.
Ace can also describe someone who's excellent at a particular skill: "He's an ace at making homemade jam!" In tennis, an ace is a point scored on a missed serve, and in golf it's a hole in one. When you ace something, you do a great job: "Just get in there and ace that math test today!" The earliest meaning was "one at dice," from the Latin as, "a unit, one, or a whole."
Definitions of ace
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one of four playing cards in a deck having a single pip on its face
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types:
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ace of clubs
the ace in the club suit
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ace of diamonds
the ace in the diamond suit
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ace of hearts
the ace in the heart suit
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ace of spades
the ace in the spade suit; sometimes taken as a portent of death
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type of:
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playing card
one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games
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the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
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someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
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of the highest quality
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succeed at easily
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synonyms:
breeze through, nail, pass with flying colors, sail through, sweep through
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a serve that the receiver is unable to reach
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serve an ace against (someone)
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type of:
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serve
put the ball into play
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serve
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score an ace against
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play (a hole) in one stroke
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type of:
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play
participate in games or sport
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play
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