Deuce vs Deduce - What's the difference?
deuce | deduce |
(cards) A card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
(dice) A side of a die with two spots.
(dice) A cast of dice totalling two.
The number two.
(tennis) A tie, both players have the same number of points and one can win by scoring two additional points.
(baseball) A curveball
(custom cars) A '32 FordGeisert, Eric. "The California Spyder", in Street Rodder'', 8/99, p.34; Mayall, Joe. "Driving Impression: Reproduction Deuce Hiboy", in ''Rod Action , 2/78, p.26. in plural, 2-barrel (twin-choke) carburetors (in the term 3 deuces, an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
(restaurants) A table seating two diners.
(slang) Excrement.
(epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger
To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) To take away; to deduct; to subtract.
(obsolete, Latinism) To lead forth.
* Selden
As a noun deuce
is a card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.As a verb deduce is
to reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.deuce
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(wikipedia deuce)Etymology 1
(etyl) , from (etyl) deus, from (etyl) duo.Noun
(en noun)Coordinate terms
* (card with two spots)Etymology 2
Compare , from (etyl) deus (compare (deity).)Noun
(en noun)- Love is a bodily infirmity . . . which breaks out the deuce knows how or why (Thackeray)
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*deduce
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Verb
- O goddess, say, shall I deduce my rhymes / From the dire nation in its early times?
- Reasoning is nothing but the faculty of deducing unknown truths from principles already known.
- See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors.
- to deduce a part from the whole
- (Ben Jonson)
- He should hither deduce a colony.