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Ace
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- 1 Excellent. UK, slang
- 2 Asexual, not experiencing sexual attraction. slang
""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).""
- 1 of the highest quality wordnet
- 1 A male given name.
- 2 Initialism of American Council on Education. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 3 A common nickname suggesting skill, particularly among airplane pilots.
- 4 Initialism of Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA spacecraft. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 5 Initialism of American Cinema Editors. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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- 6 Initialism of Attempto Controlled English. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 7 A proprietary data compression archive file format.
- 1 A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.
"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."
- 2 A person who is asexual. slang
"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!"
- 3 A member of American Cinema Editors countable, uncountable
- 4 a serve that the receiver is unable to reach wordnet
- 5 A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
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- 6 Initialism of angiotensin converting enzyme. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 7 one of four playing cards in a deck having a single pip on its face wordnet
- 8 The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
"Ace in the corner."
- 9 Initialism of air combat element. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 10 a major strategic headquarters of NATO; safeguards an area extending from Norway to Turkey wordnet
- 11 A dollar bill. US, slang
"[…] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver."
- 12 Initialism of aviation combat element. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 13 someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field wordnet
- 14 A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
"He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty."
- 15 Initialism of analysis and control element. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 16 the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number wordnet
- 17 A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
- 18 Initialism of arbitrary code execution. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 19 proteolytic enzyme that converts angiotensin I into angiotensin II wordnet
- 20 A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
- 21 Initialism of access control entry. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 22 The best pitcher on the team. US
- 23 Initialism of ASCII-compatible encoding. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"Because the DNS requires that a domain name be in an ACE format, IDNA proposes that client applications, such as a web browser, manage the character conversion internally."
- 24 A run. US, dated, obsolete
- 25 Initialism of adverse childhood experience. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 26 A hole in one. US
""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."
- 27 Initialism of accumulated cyclone energy. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 28 An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person of supreme talent. attributive, sometimes
"an ace detective"
- 29 A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
- 30 A perfect score on a school exam. US
- 31 Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- 32 A quark. obsolete
- 1 To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly. US, informal, transitive
- 2 serve an ace against (someone) wordnet
- 3 To defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition. US, ambitransitive, informal
- 4 play (a hole) in one stroke wordnet
- 5 To win a point against (an opponent) by an ace. ambitransitive
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- 6 score an ace against wordnet
- 7 To make an ace (hole in one).
- 8 succeed at easily wordnet
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. 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".
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. 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".
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. 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".
Clipping of asexual.
Clipping of asexual.
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