Deuce vs Equality - What's the difference?
deuce | equality |
(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
(uncountable) The fact of being equal.
(uncountable, mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value.
(uncountable) The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.
As nouns the difference between deuce and equality
is that 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 while equality is (uncountable) the fact of being equal.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)