ace
IPA: ˈeɪs
noun
- (card games) A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.
- (dice games) A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
- The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
- (US, slang) A dollar bill.
- A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
- (tennis, volleyball) 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 of supreme talent.
- 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.
- (slang) A person who is asexual.
- A male given name.
- A common nickname suggesting skill, particularly among airplane pilots.
- (file format) A proprietary data compression archive file format.
- (film) A member of American Cinema Editors
- (US, education) Initialism of American Council on Education.
- (astronautics) Initialism of Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA spacecraft.
- Initialism of American Cinema Editors.
- Initialism of Attempto Controlled English. [A subset of English with restricted syntax and semantics described by a small set of formal rules, suitable for knowledge representation and specification or as a query language.]
- (biochemistry, medicine) Initialism of angiotensin converting enzyme. [(biochemistry) An enzyme which catalyzes the creation of angiotensin, and is a strong vasoconstrictor.]
- (military, NATO) Initialism of air combat element.
- (military, USMC) Initialism of aviation combat element.
- Initialism of analysis and control element.
- (computing) Initialism of arbitrary code execution.
- (computing) Initialism of access control entry.
- (computing) Initialism of ASCII-compatible encoding.
- (psychology) Initialism of adverse childhood experience.
- (meteorology) Initialism of accumulated cyclone energy.
verb
- (transitive, US, informal) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
- (transitive, intransitive, US, informal) To defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition.
- (transitive, intransitive, tennis) To win a point against (an opponent) by an ace.
- (golf) To make an ace (hole in one).
adjective
- (UK, slang) Excellent.
- (slang) Asexual, not experiencing sexual attraction.
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Examples of "ace" in Sentences
- The ACE project was overambitious.
- Ace is the lowest card in the draw.
- The ace of spades counts as the car.
- Play the ace on the first spade trick.
- He was one of the final aces in the war.
- In the example above it was the Ace of Hearts.
- In the second round, the ace will drop the king.
- The ace is the highest card in play and in cutting.
- A Game 1 loss at home with your ace is no way to warm your odds.
- Their ace is starting Saturday night, with a nickname of Big Game.
- The Southsiders ace is Jake Peavy, and deservingly so, the guys has IT.
- The ace is C.C. Sabathia, hands down one of the best pitchers in the league.
- The Yankees ace is listed at 290 pounds, though he said he actually weighs 305, making him one of the heaviest baseball players of all time.
- The pitching pitcher tonight, the Giants ace, is most famous for being - in the offseason pulled over with a small amount of marijuana in his car.
- Young right-hander Homer Bailey has been tabbed as a future ace from the moment the Reds selected him out of high school in the first round of the 2004 draft.
- (The Singularity is Near) And hey, kudos to you on busting the virtual machine of consciousness with a downloaded lobster ... and 'effin ace on slapping Dennett and then telling him not to worry about illusionary pain.
- For example, not host vs and ace is short for not host vs and host ace which should not be confused with not (host vs or ace) Expression arguments can be passed to tcpdump as either a single argument or as multiple arguments, whichever is more convenient.