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# ace

noun (ace, aces); adjective (ace — informal, excellent); verb (ace, aces, aced, acing)

«ace» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An ace is a playing card with one mark on it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#m1)
2. A person who is very good at something is called an ace, like an ace pilot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#m2)
3. To ace a test is to do it perfectly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#m3)
4. In tennis, an ace is a serve the other player cannot touch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#m4)
5. Ace (informal) means excellent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#m5)
6. Within an ace of something means almost doing it, or coming very close to it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#m6)

### In the lessons

a playing card that is counted, or a word of the story about a skilled player; in probability, aces in a deck; phrases «ace a test», «an ace up your sleeve» (a secret advantage)

### Examples

- A deck has 4 aces. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x1)
- Tom drew 2 aces from the deck. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x2)
- The tennis ace served 12 aces in the match. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x3)
- How many cards are not aces? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x4)
- She aced her spelling test. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x5)
- He was an ace pilot in the war. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x6)
- That party was ace! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x7)
- The ace of hearts is red. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x8)
- She kept an ace up her sleeve. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x9)
- What is the chance of drawing an ace from 52 cards? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x10)
- He was within an ace of falling in, when Dame Fortune appeared to him and touched him on the shoulder, cautioning him to move further away. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x11)

### Note

Just a thing counted; a deck of 52 cards has 4 aces. Trap: an ace can be worth 1 or 11 in some games, so read the rule of the problem. «Ace» meaning great is informal.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ace» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ace» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ace.html) on Mova free.