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.

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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.

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A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft.

(US) A perfect score on a school exam.

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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Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Passage, route.

# (obsolete) One's journey or route.

# (obsolete) A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc.

#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:

But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].

# (obsolete) An aisle in a church.

Step.

# A step taken with the foot.

# The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement : English Customary Weights and Measures, © Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (§: Distance , ¶ ? 6)

Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.

I have perambulated your field, and estimate its perimeter to be 219 paces .

Way of stepping.

# A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.

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# Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.

Speed or velocity in general.

(cricket) A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.

The collective noun for donkeys.

* 1952 , G. B. Stern, The Donkey Shoe , The Macmillan Company (1952), page 29:

but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride.

* 2006 , " Drop the dead donkeys", The Economist , 9 November 2006:

A pace of donkeys fans out in different directions.

* 2007 , Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses , Pineapple Press (2007), ISBN 9781561643905, page 200:

Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering'' of chicks, ''pace'' of donkeys, ''troop'' of horses, and ''fold of sheep.

Noun

(en noun)

Easter.