ace

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ˈæɪ̯s/|[ˈæ̝ɪ̯s]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A person who is asexual. slang
    — 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!
  3. A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
  4. The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
    — Ace in the corner.
  5. A dollar bill. US,slang
    — […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.
  6. A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
    — He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
  7. A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
  8. A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
  9. The best pitcher on the team. US
  10. A run. US,dated,obsolete
  11. A hole in one. US
    — "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.
  12. An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person of supreme talent. attributive,sometimes
    — an ace detective
  13. A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
  14. A perfect score on a school exam. US
  15. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
  16. A quark. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly. US,informal,transitive
  2. To defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition. US,ambitransitive,informal
  3. To win a point against (an opponent) by an ace. ambitransitive
  4. To make an ace (hole in one).
形容词 adj.
  1. Excellent. UK,slang
  2. Asexual, not experiencing sexual attraction. slang
    — "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)."

词形变化

aces plural aces present,singular,third-person acing participle,present aced participle,past aced past more ace comparative most ace superlative more ace comparative most ace superlative aces plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ace bare ace boon coon aceboy acegirl ace-high ace in a day ace in the hole aceless aceness ace of aces ace of clubs ace of diamonds ace of hearts ace of queen ace of spades ace of the deep ace point aces and eights aces and spaces ace up one's sleeve acey-deucey air ace bate an ace be aces with black ace chase the ace Chinese ace duty ace easy aces eights and aces fighter ace flying ace gray ace hold all of the aces hold all the aces hold the aces jet ace panzer ace return ace six-ace flat submarine ace tank ace tanker ace U-boat ace within ames ace within an ace of ace into ace out
并列词
deuce trey cater cinque sice

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”), probably borrowed from Etruscan. Doublet of as.
词源 2
Clipping of asexual.
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