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Ace   /eɪs/   Listen
noun
Ace  n.  (pl. aces)  
1.
A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.
2.
Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot. "I 'll not wag an ace further."
3.
(Sport) A single point won by a stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.; in tennis, frequently, a point won by a service stroke.
To bate an ace, to make the least abatement. (Obs.)
Within an ace of, very near; on the point of.


adjective
ace  adj.  
1.
Of the highest quality "An ace reporter"
Synonyms: A-one, first-class, first-rate, super, tip-top, topnotch(predicate)


verb
ace  v.  To get a grade of "A"; as, to ace an exam. (Colloq.)





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"Ace" Quotes from Famous Books



... played a couple of games recently with a wide-faced young man who grew very playful and threw the parlor furniture at me because I trumpeted his ace. I fancy I must have did wrong. The fifth time I trumpeted his ace the young man arose, put on his gum shoes, and skeedaddled out of the house. Is it not considered a breach of etiquette to put on gum shoes in the presence ...
— You Should Worry Says John Henry • George V. Hobart
... man-of-the-worldness, on which he had prided himself on his travels, 'shrank like a thing ashamed' before this real sorrow. Pride, wounded honour, pity and respect tussled together daily in his heart; and now he was within an ace of throwing himself upon his father's mercy, and now of slipping forth at night and coming back no more to Naseby House. He suffered from the sight of his father, nay, even from the neighbourhood of this familiar valley, where ...
— Tales and Fantasies • Robert Louis Stevenson
... was—well, no matter; people of that ilk are not fit subjects to discuss with you. All that I know of the woman is that she has travelled pretty well over the world; that some six or eight months ago she was in Ceylon with a—er—a certain member of her crew, and came within an ace of falling foul of the law. She had put up a plan to loot the depository of the Pearl Fisheries Company at a period when there were thousands of pounds worth of gems awaiting transport. With her usual ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew
... said the cook, who was a negro black as the ace of spades named Job. "Dey am comin' to take off everybody dat looks like a Britisher. Golly! do I look like ...
— Sustained honor - The Age of Liberty Established • John R. Musick,
... your master, and being within an ace of qualifying yourself to be tried for murder,' interposed Ralph. 'I speak plainly, young man, bluster as ...
— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens


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