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/eɪs/ · noun
(card games) A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game..
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.
Ace in the corner.
[…] 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.
He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
I'LL not wag an ace farther: The whole World ſhall not bribe me to it;
"Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year.
an ace detective
Use ace1 when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ace1 means (card games) A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game..
Common synonyms include ace out, pass with flying colours, ace, atom.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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