Meaning of ace | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male given name.
2. A person who is asexual.
   slang
3. A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.
4. Initialism of American Council on Education.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
5. A member of American Cinema Editors
   countable, uncountable
6. A common nickname suggesting skill, particularly among airplane pilots.
7. A trademark for an elastic bandage.
8. A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
9. Initialism of Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA spacecraft.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
10. Initialism of angiotensin converting enzyme.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
11. Top-notch; first-rate.
12. The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
13. Initialism of American Cinema Editors.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
14. Initialism of air combat element.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
15. A hidden advantage or resource kept in reserve until needed.
16. A dollar bill.
    US, slang
17. Initialism of Attempto Controlled English.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
18. Initialism of aviation combat element.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
19. On the verge of; very near to: came within an ace of losing the election.
20. A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
21. A proprietary data compression archive file format.
22. Initialism of analysis and control element.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
23. A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
24. A service winner that the receiver is unable to touch.
25. Initialism of arbitrary code execution.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
26. A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
27. A person with a high degree of knowledge or skill in a particular field:adept, authority, dab hand, expert, master, past master, professional, proficient, wizard.
28. Initialism of access control entry.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
29. The best pitcher on the team.
    US
30. Exceptionally good of its kind:banner, blue-ribbon, brag, capital, champion, excellent, fine, first-class, first-rate, prime, quality, splendid, superb, superior, terrific, tiptop, top.
31. Initialism of ASCII-compatible encoding.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
32. A run.
    US, dated, obsolete
33. Slang. To win a victory over, as in battle or a competition:beat, best, conquer, defeat, master, overcome, prevail against (or over), rout, subdue, subjugate, surmount, triumph over, vanquish, worst.
34. Initialism of adverse childhood experience.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
35. A hole in one.
    US
36. A single spot or pip on a playing card, die, or domino.
37. Initialism of accumulated cyclone energy.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
38. An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person of supreme talent.
    attributive, sometimes
39. In racket games:a. A serve that one's opponent fails to hit.
40. A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
41. A perfect score on a school exam.
    US
42. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
43. A quark.
    obsolete

Equivalents

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.”

“Ace in the corner.”

“[…] 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.”

“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;”

“"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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“Negativity toward asexuality can make emerging aces fear that something is wrong with them.”

“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.”

“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.”

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