ace

Meaning

1. A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.
2. A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
3. The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
4. A dollar bill.
5. A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
6. A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
7. A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
8. The best pitcher on the team.
9. A run.
10. A hole in one.
11. An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person of supreme talent.
12. A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
13. To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
14. To defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition.
15. To win a point against (an opponent) by an ace.
16. To make an ace (hole in one).
17. Excellent.
18. Asexual, not experiencing sexual attraction.
19. A person who is asexual.
20. A male given name.
21. A common nickname suggesting skill, particularly among airplane pilots.
22. Initialism of American Council on Education.
23. Initialism of Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA spacecraft.
24. Initialism of American Cinema Editors.
25. Initialism of Attempto Controlled English.
26. A proprietary data compression archive file format.
27. A member of American Cinema Editors
28. Initialism of angiotensin converting enzyme.
29. Initialism of air combat element.
30. Initialism of aviation combat element.
31. Initialism of analysis and control element.
32. Initialism of arbitrary code execution.
33. Initialism of access control entry.
34. Initialism of ASCII-compatible encoding.
35. Initialism of adverse childhood experience.
36. Initialism of accumulated cyclone energy.

Etymology / origin

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.

Related words

Descendant words

• Ace(Cebuano) (der)
• ace球(Chinese) (der)
• 愛斯(Chinese) (bor)
• 煙士(Chinese) (bor)
• aso(Esperanto) (der)
• エース(Japanese) (bor)
• 에이스(Korean) (bor)
• эйс(Russian) (bor)
• ఆసు(Telugu) (bor)
• เอซ(Thai) (bor)
• xì phé(Vietnamese) (der)
• xì tố(Vietnamese) (der)

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