Deuce vs Deice - What's the difference?
deuce | deice |
(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
As a noun deuce
is (cards) a card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards or deuce can be (epithet) the devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.As a verb deice is
to remove the ice from something.deuce
English
(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)
