ace
part of speech
noun (ace, aces); adjective (ace — informal, excellent); verb (ace, aces, aced, acing)
meaning for a pupil
1) An ace is a playing card with one mark on it. tree →
2) A person who is very good at something is called an ace, like an ace pilot. tree →
3) To ace a test is to do it perfectly. tree →
4) In tennis, an ace is a serve the other player cannot touch. tree →
5) Ace (informal) means excellent. tree →
6) Within an ace of something means almost doing it, or coming very close to it. tree →
sense 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 →
- Tom drew 2 aces from the deck. tree →
- The tennis ace served 12 aces in the match. tree →
- How many cards are not aces? tree →
- She aced her spelling test. tree →
- He was an ace pilot in the war. tree →
- That party was ace! tree →
- The ace of hearts is red. tree →
- She kept an ace up her sleeve. tree →
- What is the chance of drawing an ace from 52 cards? tree →
- 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 →
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.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ace» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.