different between deuce vs educe

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?d?cere, present active infinitive of ?d?c? (“lead out, raise up”); from ex- (“out, up”) + d?c? (“lead, pull”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??du?s/, /?-/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??dju?s/, /?-/
• Rhymes: -u?s
• Hyphenation: e?duce

Verb

educe (third-person singular simple present educes, present participle educing, simple past and past participle educed)

1. (transitive, now rare) To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. [from 15th c.]
2. (transitive) To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. [from 16th c.]
3. (transitive) To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop. [from 17th c.]
   • 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:

     The justice of God may be vindicated by a belief in a future state; but, only by believing that evil is educing good for the individual, and not for an imaginary whole.

4. (transitive, chemistry) To isolate (a substance) from a compound; to extract. [from 17th c.]
5. (transitive) To cause or generate; to bring about. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Noun

educe

1. An inference.

Anagrams

• deuce

Italian

Verb

educe

1. third-person singular present indicative of edurre

Anagrams

• cedue

Latin

Verb

?d?ce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?d?c?

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e?dut??e]

Verb

educe

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of educa
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of educa

Spanish

Verb

educe

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of educir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of educir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of educir.