different between deuce vs advantage

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dju?s/, /d??u?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /du?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

deuce (plural deuces)

1. (card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
2. (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.
3. (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.
4. The number two.
5. (tennis) A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
6. (baseball) A curveball.
7. A '32 Ford.
   • 1978, Mayall, Joe. "Driving Impression: Reproduction Deuce Hiboy", in Rod Action, p.26

1. (in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
2. (restaurants, slang) A table seating two diners.
3. (Canada, US, slang) A piece of excrement.

Synonyms

• (piece of excrement): See Thesaurus:defecation

Derived terms

• drop a deuce

Related terms

• (dice) ace, trey, cater, cinque, sice

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Compare Late Latin dusius (“phantom, specter”); Scottish Gaelic taibhs, taibhse (“apparition, ghost”); or from Old French deus (“God”), from Latin deus (compare deity).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dju?s/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /du?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

deuce (plural deuces)

1. (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

Derived terms

• what the deuce

Translations

References

• (etymology) deuce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• educe

English

Alternative forms

• advauntage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English avantage, avauntage, from Old French avantage, from avant (“before”), from Medieval Latin abante. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be from Latin ad (see advance). For sense development, compare foredeal.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?v??n.t?d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?væn.(t)?d?/

Noun

advantage (countable and uncountable, plural advantages)

1. (countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
2. (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
3. (countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit

4. (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
5. (soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
6. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

Synonyms

• foredeal, benefit, value, edge
• vantage

Antonyms

• disadvantage, drawback

Derived terms