Spades vs Spaded - What's the difference?
spades | spaded |
English plurals
One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol .
A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.
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A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
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A playing card marked with the symbol .
(offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
(videogaming) To collect and statistically analyze data, for the purpose of determining the underlying random number generator structure or numeric formula.
As verbs the difference between spades and spaded
is that spades is third-person singular of spade while spaded is past tense of spade.As a noun spades
is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.spades
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Noun
(head)Derived terms
* ace of spades * in spades * jack of spades * king of spades * knave of spades * queen of spadesSee also
*Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----spaded
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Verb
(head)spade
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(wikipedia spade)Etymology 1
From (etyl) spadu, spada, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade .'
- I've got only one spade in my hand.