different between skull vs ace

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sculle, scolle (also schulle, scholle), probably from Old Norse skalli (“bald head, skull”), itself probably related to Old English s?ealu (“husk”). Compare Swedish skalle, Norwegian skalle.

Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skoltr, skolptr (“muzzle, snout”), akin to Icelandic skoltur (“jaw”), dialectal Swedish skult, skulle (“dome, crown of the head, skull”), Middle Dutch scolle, scholle, Middle Low German scholle, schulle (“clod, sod”). Compare also Old High German sciula, skiula (“skull”).

Alternative forms

• scull (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: sk?l, IPA^(key): /sk?l/
• Homophone: scull
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

skull (plural skulls)

1. (anatomy) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     He was about to roar when, lying among the black sticks and straw under the cliff, he saw a whole skull—perhaps a cow's skull, a skull, perhaps, with the teeth in it. Sobbing, but absent-mindedly, he ran farther and farther away until he held the skull in his arms.

2. These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head.
3. (figuratively) The mind or brain.
4. A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.
5. The crown of the headpiece in armour.
6. (Scotland) A shallow bow-handled basket.

Synonyms

• brainpan
• harnpan

Meronyms

• Thesaurus:skull

Coordinate terms

• cranium

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• bone

Verb

skull (third-person singular simple present skulls, present participle skulling, simple past and past participle skulled)

1. To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.
2. (transitive, golf) To strike the top of (the ball).
   • 2002, Robert C. Knox, Golf Balls Are Female (page 148)

     Monte swung so hard at the next ball that he skulled it straight right, into the pond: 8 in, 9 out.

References

Etymology 2

See school (“a multitude”).

Noun

skull (plural skulls)

1. Obsolete form of school (“a multitude”).
   • 1586, William Warner, Albion’s England:

     A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.

   • 1601, Philemon Holland (translator), Pliny the Elder (author), The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndvs., book IX, chapter xv: “Of the names and natures of many fishes.”:

     These fishs, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls, into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their fever all leaders and captaines; and before them all, the Maquerels lead the way; which, while they be in the water, have a colour of brimstone; but without, like they be to the rest.

Anagrams

• Kulls

Swedish

Etymology

An alternate form of skuld (“debt”) from Old Norse skuld, from Proto-Germanic *skuldiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéltis. Compare gälla and gälda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?l?/

Noun

skull c

1. (for someone's) sake, (on someone's) behalf; an archaic form of skuld (debt), used to indicate for whom or why something is done

   för din skull

   for your sake, for you, because of you, on your behalf

   För edra hjärtans hårdhets skull tillstadde Moses eder att skiljas från edra hustrur

   Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives (Matthew 19:8)

Related terms

• skuld
• skyld
• skylla

Anagrams

• kulls

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)