ace

noun

(card games) A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.

(tennis, volleyball) A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.

(sometimes attributive) An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person of supreme talent.

(US) A perfect score on a school exam.

(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, golf, disc golf) A hole in one.

A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.

(US, slang) A dollar bill.

(US, baseball) The best pitcher on the team.

A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.

(slang) A person who is asexual.

(sports) A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.

Any of various hesperiid butterflies.

A common nickname suggesting skill, particularly among airplane pilots.

A male given name.

(film) A member of American Cinema Editors

(file format) A proprietary data compression archive file format.

(US, education) Initialism of American Council on Education.

Initialism of American Cinema Editors.

(biochemistry, medicine) Initialism of angiotensin converting enzyme. [(biochemistry) An enzyme which catalyzes the creation of angiotensin, and is a strong vasoconstrictor.]

(psychology) Initialism of adverse childhood experience.

(astronautics) Initialism of Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA spacecraft.

(military, NATO) Initialism of air combat element.

(military, USMC) Initialism of aviation combat element.

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.]

(computing) Initialism of arbitrary code execution.

(computing) Initialism of access control entry.

(computing) Initialism of ASCII-compatible encoding.

(meteorology) Initialism of accumulated cyclone energy.

Initialism of analysis and control element.

(US, baseball, dated, 19th century) A run.

(physics, obsolete) A quark.

verb

(ambitransitive, US, informal) To defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition.

(ambitransitive, tennis) To win a point against (an opponent) by an ace.

(transitive, US, informal) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.

(golf) To make an ace (hole in one).

adjective

(UK, slang) Excellent.

(slang) Asexual, not experiencing sexual attraction.

Roots

asac- · Latin · unit, single

Synonyms for ace

superstarn championn spadesn starn deucen virtuosoadj geniusn whizn

Words related to ace

hotshotn ambsace wizn mavenn topnotchadj adeptadj

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