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# ace

«ace» in Mova's school dictionary: **a playing card with one mark on it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ace, aces); adjective (ace — informal, excellent); verb (ace, aces, aced, acing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An ace is a playing card with one mark on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#m1)

2) A person who is very good at something is called an ace, like an ace pilot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#m2)

3) To ace a test is to do it perfectly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#m3)

4) In tennis, an ace is a serve the other player cannot touch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#m4)

5) Ace (informal) means excellent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#m5)

6) Within an ace of something means almost doing it, or coming very close to it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

a playing card that is counted, or a word of the story about a skilled player; in probability, aces in a deck; phrases «ace a test», «an ace up your sleeve» (a secret advantage)

### examples

- A deck has 4 aces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x1)
- Tom drew 2 aces from the deck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x2)
- The tennis ace served 12 aces in the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x3)
- How many cards are not aces? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x4)
- She aced her spelling test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x5)
- He was an ace pilot in the war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x6)
- That party was ace! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x7)
- The ace of hearts is red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x8)
- She kept an ace up her sleeve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x9)
- What is the chance of drawing an ace from 52 cards? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x10)
- He was within an ace of falling in, when Dame Fortune appeared to him and touched him on the shoulder, cautioning him to move further away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/#x11)

### note

Just a thing counted; a deck of 52 cards has 4 aces. Trap: an ace can be worth 1 or 11 in some games, so read the rule of the problem. «Ace» meaning great is informal.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ace» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ace/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.