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Ace

noun
(pl. aces)
1.
The smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number.  Synonyms: 1, I, one, single, unity.  "They had lunch at one"
2.
One of four playing cards in a deck having a single pip on its face.
3.
Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field.  Synonyms: adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard.
4.
Proteolytic enzyme that converts angiotensin I into angiotensin II.  Synonyms: angiotensin-converting enzyme, angiotensin converting enzyme.
5.
A major strategic headquarters of NATO; safeguards an area extending from Norway to Turkey.  Synonym: Allied Command Europe.
6.
A serve that the receiver is unable to reach.
adjective
1.
Of the highest quality.  Synonyms: A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops.  "A crack shot" , "A first-rate golfer" , "A super party" , "Played top-notch tennis" , "An athlete in tiptop condition" , "She is absolutely tops"
verb
1.
Succeed at easily.  Synonyms: breeze through, nail, pass with flying colors, sail through, sweep through.  "You will pass with flying colors" , "She nailed her astrophysics course"
2.
Score an ace against.
3.
Play (a hole) in one stroke.
4.
Serve an ace against (someone).



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"Ace" Quotes from Famous Books



... when the Hen took to loading up Shorty with little Gustavuses; but Boston didn't notice nothing, and Shorty—who had wits as sharp as pin-points, and could be counted on for what cards was needed in the kind of game the Hen was playing—put down the ace she asked for and ...
— Santa Fe's Partner - Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town • Thomas A. Janvier
... my lady, doant ye," said the honest fellow, and was within an ace of blubbering for sympathy. "We ain't a lot o' babies, to see our squire kidnaped. If you would lend Abel Moss there and me a couple o' nags, we'll catch ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade
... up to it wi' th' rope all ready, but just as he was going to slip it over its leg it seemed to stand on its head, feint wi' its left an' get an upper-cut wi' its right under Ratty's chin. A shadow passed across th' fa-ace o' the moon, which I judged ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 11, 1919 • Various
... Martins call,[425] Which beast, this baggage seemes as 't were himselfe: So as both nature, nurture, name, and all, Of that's expressed in this apish elfe. Which Ile make good to Martin Marre-als face, In three plaine poynts, and will not bate an ace. ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli
... erupting everywhere. A carrier suddenly came charging out of the brush to his left. While Ed dealt with that one, the Harn played its ace in the hole. The two special units it had been developing to deal with Ed were not quite done yet, but they were done enough to work for the few minutes the Harn needed them. Ed heard a coughing grunt behind him and spun around to see something new crawling out of the flame and smoke at ...
— Cat and Mouse • Ralph Williams


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