Definitions for ACE

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ACE ace

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IPA: /eɪs/

Ace is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in ACE (ace).

Definitions for ACE

noun

1. a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot:
2. a single spot or mark on a playing card or die.
3. Also called service ace. a placement made on a service. any placement. a serve that the opponent fails to touch. the point thus scored.
4. a fighter pilot credited with destroying a prescribed number or more of enemy aircraft, usually five, in combat.
5. a very skilled person; expert; adept:
6. Slang. a one-dollar bill.
7. Slang. a close friend.
8. Golf. Also called hole in one. a shot in which the ball is driven from the tee into the hole in one stroke: a score of one stroke made on such a shot:
9. Slang. a barbiturate or amphetamine capsule or pill.
10. a very small quantity, amount, or degree; a particle:
11. Slang. a grade of A; the highest grade or score.

Idioms

1. ace up one's sleeve, an important, effective, or decisive argument, resource, or advantage kept in reserve until needed.
2. be aces with, Slang. to be highly regarded by:
3. easy aces, Auction Bridge. aces equally divided between opponents.
4. within an ace of, within a narrow margin of; close to:

adjective

1. excellent; first-rate; outstanding.

Verb phrases

1. ace it, Slang. to accomplish something with complete success:

verb (used with object)

1. (in tennis, badminton, handball, etc.) to win a point against (one's opponent) by an ace.
2. Golf. to make an ace on (a hole).
3. Slang. to cheat, defraud, or take advantage of (often followed by out):
4. Slang. to receive a grade of A, as on a test or in a course (sometimes followed by out). to complete easily and successfully:

Origin of ACE

1250-1300; 1915 for def 4; Middle English as, aas Old French as Latin: a unit; cf. as²; sense 4 after French as in World War I; sense 5

Examples for ACE

If she had the ace of trumps in her hand at whist, she wouldn't say anything, child.

Time and time again, we see women being asked to ace some arbitrary test in order to be deemed model victims.

I took, as I remember now, an ace of hearts off the table and threw it into the air.

My grandfather lived fast and large—he liked his liquor and his tobacco, and he was also an ace gambler.

And, besides, I might very well have won, for I still had an ace left.'

She had been seeking not only access to the presentation materials, but also a list of ace members who attended the webinar.

He is getting ready to watch Jack Morris, the Tigers ace, go for win number nineteen against the Toronto Blue Jays.

An ace comedic turn that, in lesser hands, would come off as one-note.

And I was within an ace of becoming an ornament of the British peerage.

Colonel Chinn, you have overlooked that small wager on the ace.