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As nouns the difference between ace and spirit

is that ace is (medicine) angiotensin converting enzyme while spirit is spirit (alcohol).

As a proper noun ace

is .

ace

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) as'', from (etyl) ''as'', from (etyl) ''as'', ''assis , unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage. Compare as

Noun

(en noun)
  • A single point or spot on a playing card or die.
  • A card or die face so marked.
    • I have the ace of diamonds.
  • A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
  • * (rfdate)
    • I'll not wag an ace further.
  • * c. 1658 Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue :
    • He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
  • (tennis) A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
  • (US) (baseball) The best pitcher on the team.
  • (US) A run.
  • (US) (golf) A hole in one.
  • An expert at something.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=September 29 , author=Jon Smith , title=Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Mexican ace Dos Santos smashed home the third five minutes later after good work from Defoe.}}
  • A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft.
  • (US) A perfect score on a school exam.
    • Usage notes
    * Used as an exclamation to mean excellent. But see (ace) (adjective) . Also in plural: aces.
    Synonyms
    * (single point or spot) pip
    Coordinate terms
    *
    Derived terms
    * ace in the hole * ace of aces * ace up one's sleeve * aces and eights * air ace * bate an ace (see bate) * be aces with * easy aces * flying ace * fighter ace * jet ace * panzer ace * return ace * submarine ace / ace of the deep * tank ace / tanker ace * U-boat ace * within an ace of

    Verb

    (ac)
  • (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
  • (tennis) To win a point by an ace.
  • (golf) To make an ace (hole in one).
    • Synonyms
    * (to pass a test) pass with flying colours
    Derived terms
    * ace it * ace out

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, slang) Excellent.
    • Usage notes
    * Used as exclamation. Also see (noun) above and aces.
    Synonyms
    * excellent * first-rate * outstanding

    Etymology 2

    From (asexual) by shortening.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Asexual.
  • * 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.
  • *
    • Synonyms
    * asexy (slang)
    Derived terms
    * acephobia

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A person who identifies as 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.
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    • Anagrams

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    spirit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The undying essence of a human; the soul.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit .}}
  • * 1967 , MacCormack, Woman Times Seven
    • a triumph of the spirit over the flesh.
  • A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
    • A wandering spirit haunts the island.
  • * John Locke
    • Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark.
  • Enthusiasm.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil Dawkes, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Sunderland 2-2 West Brom , passage=The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.}}
  • The manner or style of something.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
  • * Alexander Pope
    • A perfect judge will read each work of wit / With the same spirit that its author writ.
  • (usually, in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
  • Energy; ardour.
  • * Fuller
    • "Write it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired.
  • One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
    • a ruling spirit'''; a schismatic '''spirit
  • * Dryden
    • Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.
  • Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.
    • to be cheerful, or in good spirits'''; to be down-hearted, or in bad '''spirits
  • * South
    • God has made a spirit' of building succeed a ' spirit of pulling down.
  • (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
  • * Spenser
    • For, else he sure had left not one alive, / But all, in his Revenge, of Spirit would deprive.
  • * Spenser
    • The mild air, with season moderate, / Gently attempered, and disposed so well, / That still it breathed forth sweet spirit .
  • (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h ; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Be it a letter or spirit , we have great use for it.
  • Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
    • the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document
  • (alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
  • * Chaucer
    • the four spirits and the bodies seven
  • (dyeing) stannic chloride

    • Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * community spirit * free spirit * Holy Spirit * in good spirits * in spirit (adverb) * in the spirit it was meant (idiom) * kindred spirit * methlyated spirit * moving spirit * party spirit * petroleum spirit * poor in spirit * proof spirit * pyroacetic spirit * rectified spirit * shad-spirit * spiritdom * spirited * spiriten * spirit-filled * spiritful * spirithood * spiritish * spiritless * spiritlike * spiritling * spiritly * spiritness * spiritous * spiritship * spiritsome * spiritual * spiritually * spirituality * spirit away (verb) * spirit gum * spirit lamp * spirit level * spirit off * spirit of hartshorn * spirit of salt * spirit of the law * spirit of turpentine * spirit of vitriol * spirit of wine * spirit rapper/spirit rapping * spirit stove * spirit world * spirit writing * surgical spirit * team spirit * that's the spirit * the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak * white spirit * wood spirit * zombie spirit (spirit)

    See also

    * ghost * soul

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 8, author=Dave Kehr, title=Buñuel at His Wildest, in Circulation Again, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=God does not make an appearance, but the Devil (Ms. Pinal) emphatically does: first in the guise of a schoolgirl who tries to lure Simon down with the sight of her shapely legs; then as a bearded but blatantly female Jesus carrying a lamb; and finally as a stylishly coiffed woman who succeeds in spiriting Simon off, by means of a jet, to a Manhattan discotheque — Buñuel’s persuasive idea of hell.}}
  • * Willis
    • I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity.
  • To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up .
    • Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion.

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