different between authority vs ace

English

Alternative forms

• authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???t???ti/
• Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
• Rhymes: -???ti

Noun

authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)

1. (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

2. (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
3. (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
   • 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman

     To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.

4. Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.

   New York Port Authority

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• have something on good authority

References

• authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
• authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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)

1. (card games, dice games) A single point or spot on a playing card or die.

   Synonym: pip

2. (card games, dice games) A card or die face so marked.

3. 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.

4. 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.
5. (tennis) A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
6. (sports) A single point won by a stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
7. (US) (baseball) The best pitcher on the team.
8. (US) (baseball, dated, 19th century) A run.
9. (US) (golf, disc golf) A hole in one.
10. (sometimes attributive) An expert at something.
11. A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
12. (US) A perfect score on a school exam.
13. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
14. (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)

1. (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
2. (tennis) To win a point by an ace.
3. (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)

1. (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)

1. (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

Derived terms

• acephobia

Noun

ace (plural aces)

1. (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.

See also

• (aromantic): aro

Anagrams

• AEC, CAE, CEA, Cea, EAC

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s/, /?js/

Noun

ace m (plural aces)

1. (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)

1. elder sister in Chinese communities.
2. 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)

1. (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?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ace?

Portuguese

Noun

ace m (plural aces)

1. (tennis) ace (tennis: point scored without the opponent hitting the ball)

Romanian

Noun

ace

1. plural of ac

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [es]
• (Mid Northern) IPA^(key): [is]

Noun

ace (plural aces)

1. The smallest possible amount of something.
2. The best of a class of things.

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Spanish

Noun

ace m (plural aces)

1. (tennis) ace (point scored without the opponent hitting the ball)