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ace
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?s, IPA(key): /e?s/
- Rhymes: -e?s
Etymology 1
From Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”). Doublet of as. Likely related or deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?é??s.
Noun
ace (plural aces)
- (card games, dice games) A single point or spot on a playing card or die.
- Synonym: pip
- (card games, dice games) A card or die face so marked.
- The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
- 1961, The Hustler (film): a character is calling his next shot
- Ace in the corner.
- 1961, The Hustler (film): a character is calling his next shot
- A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
- c. 1658 Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue :
- He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
- c. 1658 Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue :
- (tennis) A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
- (sports) A single point won by a stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
- (US) (baseball) The best pitcher on the team.
- (US) (baseball, dated, 19th century) A run.
- (US) (golf, disc golf) A hole in one.
- (sometimes attributive) An expert at something.
- A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
- (US) A perfect score on a school exam.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- (physics, obsolete) A quark.
Usage notes
- Used as an exclamation to mean "excellent". But see ace (adjective). Also in plural: aces.
Coordinate terms
- (dice, dominoes) deuce, trey, cater, cinque, sice
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
ace (third-person singular simple present aces, present participle acing, simple past and past participle aced)
- (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
- (tennis) To win a point by an ace.
- (golf) To make an ace (hole in one).
Synonyms
- (to pass a test): pass with flying colours
Derived terms
- ace it
- ace out
Translations
Adjective
ace (comparative more ace, superlative most ace)
- (Britain, slang) Excellent.
- Synonyms: excellent, first-rate, outstanding
Usage notes
- Used as exclamation. Also see ace (noun) above and aces.
Translations
See also
Etymology 2
From asexual by shortening.
Adjective
ace (comparative more ace, superlative most ace)
- (slang) Asexual. (not experiencing sexual attraction)
- 2009, Anneli Rufus, "Asexuals at the Pride Parade", Psychology Today, 22 June 2009:
- "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)."
- 2010, Amy Ebersole, "Asexuality, not to be confused with celibacy", The Daily Aztec (San Diego State University), 25 January 2010:
- “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.”
- 2013, Andrea Garcia-Vargas, "Ourselves, our sex, our choices", The Eye, 28 March 2013:
- “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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ace.
- Synonym: (slang) asexy
- 2009, Anneli Rufus, "Asexuals at the Pride Parade", Psychology Today, 22 June 2009:
Derived terms
- acephobia
Noun
ace (plural aces)
- (slang) A person who is asexual.
- 2012, Tasmin Prichard, "Freedom from Desire: Some Notes on Asexuality", Salient (Victoria University of Wellington), 23 July 2012, page 20:
- 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!
- 2013, Leigh Miller, "(A)Sexual Healing", Jerk (Syracuse University), Volume XII, Issue V, April 2013, page 23:
- Negativity toward asexuality can make emerging aces fear that something is wrong with them.
- 2014, Emma Ianni, "New Group to Bring Awareness Of C. U. Asexual Community", The Cornell Daily Sun (Cornell University), Volume 130, Number 81, 4 February 2014, page 1:
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ace.
- 2012, Tasmin Prichard, "Freedom from Desire: Some Notes on Asexuality", Salient (Victoria University of Wellington), 23 July 2012, page 20:
See also
- (aromantic): aro
Anagrams
- AEC, CAE, CEA, Cea, EAC
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s/, /?js/
Noun
ace m (plural aces)
- (tennis) ace
Further reading
- “ace” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Indonesian
Etymology
- From Hokkien or Teochew of ?? (â-chè, â-che, “elder sister”).
- From Cantonese or Teochew of ?? (“elder sister”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?at???]
- Hyphenation: acê
Noun
ace (plural ace-ace, first-person possessive aceku, second-person possessive acemu, third-person possessive acenya)
- elder sister in Chinese communities.
- a term of address to Chinese woman.
Further reading
- “ace” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
From the names of vitamins A, C and E, contained in the juice.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?at.?e/
Noun
ace m (plural ace)
- (cooking) a flavour of fruit juice, mainly formed by orange, carrot and lemon juice.
- Synonym: ACE
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?a.ke?/, [?äke?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?a.t??e/, [???t???]
Verb
ac?
- second-person singular present active imperative of ace?
Portuguese
Noun
ace m (plural aces)
- (tennis) ace (tennis: point scored without the opponent hitting the ball)
Romanian
Noun
ace
- plural of ac
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [es]
- (Mid Northern) IPA(key): [is]
Noun
ace (plural aces)
- The smallest possible amount of something.
- The best of a class of things.
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
Spanish
Noun
ace m (plural aces)
- (tennis) ace (point scored without the opponent hitting the ball)
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hole
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??l/, [h???], [h???]
- Rhymes: -??l
- (US) IPA(key): /ho?l/, [ho??]
- Rhymes: -o?l
- Homophone: whole (depends on accent)
Etymology 1
From Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hul? (“hollow space, cavity”) noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”).
Noun
hole (plural holes)
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
- The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
- 1840, Alfred Tennyson, Godiva:
- […] her palfrey’s footfall shot
Light horrors thro’ her pulses: the blind walls
Were full of chinks and holes; and overhead
Fantastic gables, crowding, stared: […]
- […] her palfrey’s footfall shot
- An opening in a solid.
- (heading) In games.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- 2011, Fun - We Are Young
- But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know / I’m trying hard to take it back
- 2011, Fun - We Are Young
- (informal) A container or receptacle.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- (slang, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
- (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
- Are you going out to get your hole tonight?
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- Synonym: box
- 2011, Ahmariah Jackson, IAtomic Seven, Locked Up but Not Locked Down
- Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in the hole.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
- (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hole
- (solitary confinement): administrative segregation, ad-seg, block (UK), box, cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (h?ru)
- Sranan Tongo: olo
Translations
Verb
hole (third-person singular simple present holes, present participle holing, simple past and past participle holed)
- (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
- (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
- (intransitive) To go into a hole.
- (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
- 1799, Sporting Magazine (volume 13, page 49)
- If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.
- 1799, Sporting Magazine (volume 13, page 49)
- (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
- to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
Derived terms
- holeable
- holer
- hole out
- hole up
Translations
Etymology 2
Adjective
hole (comparative holer or more hole, superlative holest or most hole)
- Obsolete form of whole.
- 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
- Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.
- 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
Anagrams
- Hoel, OHLE, helo, ohel, oleh
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ol?]
Noun
hole
- inflection of h?l:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Verb
hole
- masculine singular present transgressive of holit
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ho?l?/
Verb
hole
- inflection of holen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Hausa
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hó?.lè?/
Verb
h?l? (grade 4)
- to relax, to enjoy oneself
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English h?l
Adjective
hole
- healthy
- safe
- whole, complete, full
Alternative forms
- hol, ol, ole, hoal, hoale, hoel, hoil, hoille, holle, wholle
- hal, hale, halle (Northern)
References
- “h?l(e, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Adverb
hole
- wholly
Alternative forms
- hol
References
- “h?l(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Noun
hole (plural holes)
- whole, entirety
- health
- remedy, cure
Alternative forms
- hol
References
- “h?l(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Descendants
- English: whole
- Scots: hole, holl
Etymology 2
From Old English hol
Noun
hole (plural holes or holen)
- hole
Alternative forms
- hol, ol, ole, holle, hoil, houl, hul
Descendants
- English: hole
- Scots: hole
References
- “h??l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
From Old English hulu; see hull for more.
Noun
hole (plural holes)
- hull (outer covering of a fruit or seed)
- hut, shelter
- hull (of a ship)
Alternative forms
- hol, holle, hul, hule, ule, hulle, ulle, hoile, huole
Descendants
- English: hull
- Scots: huil
References
- “hol(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4
Verb
hole
- past participle of helen (“to cover”)
- Synonym: heled
Alternative forms
- holn
Etymology 5
Adjective
hole
- Alternative form of hol (“hollow”)
Etymology 6
Noun
hole (uncountable)
- Alternative form of oile (“oil”)
Etymology 7
Noun
hole (plural holen)
- Alternative form of oule (“owl”)
Etymology 8
Adjective
hole
- Alternative form of holy (“holy”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse hola
Noun
hole f or m (definite singular hola or holen, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)
- alternative form of hule
References
- “hole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- hòle
Etymology
From Old Norse hola
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²ho?l?/
Noun
hole f (definite singular hola, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)
- a cave
- a cavity (anatomy)
- a den
Derived terms
- augehole
References
- “hole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Middle High German holen, from Old High German holon, from Proto-Germanic *hul?n? (“to fetch”). Compare German holen, Dutch halen. Related to English haul.
Verb
hole
- to fetch
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ole]
Noun
hole f
- genitive singular of ho?a
Sotho
Noun
hole 17 (uncountable)
- far away
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