ace
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Is ace a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of ace?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (card games) A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.Examples: "You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost."
2. (dice games) A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
3. (US, slang) A dollar bill.Examples: "[…] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver."; "If they got too many aces (dollar bills) or fives or tens, they turned them in to the vault where they became part of the reserve."USslang
4. (tennis, volleyball) A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
5. (sports) A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
6. (US, baseball) The best pitcher on the team.US
verb (English)
1. (transitive, US, informal) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.Synonyms: ace out, ace out, pass with flying coloursUSinformaltransitive
2. (ambitransitive, US, informal) To defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition.Synonyms: ace outUSambitransitiveinformal
3. (ambitransitive, tennis) To win a point against (an opponent) by an ace.ambitransitive
4. (golf) To make an ace (hole in one).
adj (English)
1. (UK, slang) Excellent.Synonyms: excellent, first-rate, outstandingUKslang
adj (English)
1. (slang) Asexual, not experiencing sexual attraction.Examples: ""Some people who identify as ace fall under the GLBT umbrella while many others do not. Members of the queer movement have reached out to asexuals to include them in their community. The acronym for this has now become GLBTQA (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and asexual).""; "“I was 14 when I first realized I had no interest in sex,” Jed Strohm, a happily satisfied, romantic asexual from upstate New York, said. “I identified as ace (asexual) and the group leader said I was too attractive.”"; "“If you identify as ace [asexual] and you just don’t feel like having sex, then for me, sex-positive means, ‘That’s great! It’s fantastic you don’t want to have sex!’” says McGown."Synonyms: asexyslang
noun (English)
1. (slang) A person who is asexual.Examples: "Asexuals are programmed differently, like anybody else on the LGBTQXYZ spectrum, but difference is cool! Difference is perhaps the best part of being queer. Own it, aces!"; "Negativity toward asexuality can make emerging aces fear that something is wrong with them."; "G. F. said she came up with the idea of creating an asexual group last semester, when she was struggling with the way being an ace was affecting her personal life."slang
name (English)
1. (US, education) Initialism of American Council on Education.USabbreviationalt-ofinitialism
2. (astronautics) Initialism of Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA spacecraft.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
3. (file format) A proprietary data compression archive file format.
Definition source: Wiktionary