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Definition: ACES |
ACESPlural1. Of Ace |
Date "ACES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Census | (Annual Capital Expenditures Survey) Provides data on capital expenditures needed for estimating the national income and product accounts, estimating productivity of United States industries, evaluating fiscal and monetary policy, and conducting research using capital expenditures data. (Manufacturing and Construction Division). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ACES | English | Aircrew Common Ejection Seat | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ACES |
| English words defined with "ACES": Ambs-ace ♦ Murnival ♦ Quatorze. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ACES": DICE ♦ miracle. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ACES": Ace. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ACES" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (be sour). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hey, this class is aces! You go from 'slopper' to 'proper' like (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Whoa! Three aces! (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure; writing credit: Chris Matheson; Ed Solomon) When your opponent's sittin' there holding all aces, there's only one thing left to do: Kick over the table (Robin and the 7 Hoods; writing credit: David R. Schwartz) I want to get a leg up on peddling my aces. (Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story; writing credit: Frank Moorhouse) Where d'you get those aces from (Only Fools and Horses; writing credit: John Sullivan) | |
Lyrics | So if you don't mind my sayin', I can see you're out of aces. (The Gambler; performing artist: Kenny Rogers) | |
Clever | Ethical man -- a Christian holding four aces. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Blue Aces Wild (1973) The Four Aces Sing (1954) Hot Air Aces (1949) Easy Aces (1949) Ice Aces (1948) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Fishing Vessel ACES HIGH in port, a coastal lobster boat. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The F/V ACES HIGH is a coastal lobster boat. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Crew members pose on the boat's foredeck, at Rendova, Solomon Islands, in July 1943, while operating in support of the New Georgia operation. Note PT-157's "Aces & Eights" insignia painted below her number on the cabin front. Photographed by T/Sgt. J. Sarno, USMC. Credit: NAVY. |  | Meet in Mr. Warner's Pentagon Office, June 1972, in a ceremony honoring the two aviators, the Navy's only Vietnam War air "Aces". Lt. Cunningham piloted F-4J "Phantom" jet fighters, with LtJG Driscoll as Radar Intercept Officer, when they shot down five enemy MiGs (four MiG-17s and one MiG-21) in January and May 1972. They were members of Fighter Squadron 96 (VF-96), based aboard USS Constellation (CVA-64). In this photo, Cunningham and Driscoll are holding models of F-4 fighters. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Army air aces fly high above clouds at air races--Army's pursuit squadron from Selfridge Field, at Cleveland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tennis aces sail for home on the S.S. France. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Great; aces; slang; dynamite; fantastic; good; marvelous; perfect; positive; super dupe; terrific; wonderful; cool. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Philippines | A new entrant in the GMPCS market is ACeS Philippine Cellular Corporation (ACeSPhil), another subsidiary of PLDT in addition to its cellular units Smart Communications and Pilipino Telecommunications (Piltel). (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MIRACLE, n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ACES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 89.40% of the time. "ACES" is used about 151 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 89.4% | 135 | 27,360 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.6% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 151 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ACES": i-hold-all-the-aces. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ACES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 一点 (Ace). (various references) | |
Danish | årlig statistik over kapitaludgifter (annual capital expenditures survey). (various references) | |
Dutch | jaarlijkse enquête naar kapitaaluitgaven (annual capital expenditures survey). (various references) | |
French | enquête annuelle sur les dépenses en capitaux. (various references) | |
German | Asse. (various references) | |
Hungarian | klassz (bang-up, boss, classy, crackajack, crackerjack, dandy, divvy, elegant, hunky-dory, nifty, rattling, scrummy, scrumptious, slap-up, smashing, stunning, swell, to be all aces, whopping), jó (as good as gold, bitching, conceit, fair, fair enough, fine, good, gorge, guileless, have a good grounding in sg, have a good pair of legs, have a long wind, have good legs, have good walking legs, hunky-dory, it's good to be alive, jake, mind-blowing, nice, okay, physiognomist, plump, sniffy, that's not good enough, to be all aces, to be well connected), isteni (divine, divinity, divvy, godlike, providence, to be all aces). (various references) | |
Italian | assi (arbors, palings), indagine annuale sulle spese del capitale (annual capital expenditures survey). (various references) | |
Korean | 에이스 (Ace). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acesay.(various references) | |
Spanish | encuesta anual sobre gastos de capital (annual capital expenditures survey). (various references) | |
Swedish | äss (ace). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Samuel Chapter 23, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | EllhV o felwqi iraV uioV ekkaV o qekwithV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Helas de Felthi Hira filius Aces de Thecua |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Helias, of Phelu; Hyra, the sone of Aches, of Thekua; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Helez the Paltite, Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Samuel Chapter 23, Verse 26 |
| Bulgarian | Хелис фалтянинът; Ирас, син на текоеца Екис; |
| Cebuano | Si Heles, ang Paltihanon, si Hira, ang anak nga lalake ni Jecces, ang Tecoahanon; |
| Chinese | 帕 ' 提 人 希 利 斯 、 提 " 亞 人 益 吉 的 ' 子 以 拉 、 |
| Croatian | Heles iz Peleta; Ira, sin Ikešev, iz Tekoe; |
| Danish | Paltiten Helez; Ira, Ikkesj's Søn fra Tekoa; |
| Dutch | Helez, de Paltiet; Ira, de zoon van Ikes, de Thekoiet; |
| Finnish | pleettiläinen Heles; tekoalainen Iira, Ikkeksen poika; |
| French | Hélets, de Péleth. Ira, fils d`Ikkesch, de Tekoa. |
| German | Helez, der Paltiter; Ira, der Sohn Ikkes, des Thekoiters; |
| Haitian Creole | Elèz, moun lavil Pelèt, Ira, pitit gason Ikèch, moun lavil Tekoa, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan Helez, orang Palti, dan Ira bin Ikesy, orang Tekoi, |
| Maori | Ko Herete Parati; ko Ira tama a Ikehe Tekoi; |
| Norwegian | paltitten Heles; teko'itten Ira, sønn av Ikkes; |
| Portuguese | Jelez, o paltita; Ira, filho de Iques, o tecoíta; |
| Rumanian | Heley, din Pelet. Ira, fiul lui Ichew, din Tecoa. |
| Spanish | Heles el peletita; Ira hijo de Iques, de Tecoa; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ACES": acescent, acescents. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ACES": aerospaces, airspaces, ambsaces, amesaces, anlaces, anthraces, backspaces, bifaces, birthplaces, blackfaces, boldfaces, bonifaces, bootlaces, boraces, braces, bullaces, carapaces, catfaces, cephalothoraces, commonplaces, crawlspaces, cyberspaces, daces, defaces, disgraces, displaces, dogfaces, doughfaces, effaces, embraces, emplaces, enfaces, enlaces, faces, fireplaces, footpaces, footraces, forefaces, fullfaces, furnaces, glaces, graces, grimaces, headraces, headspaces, horseraces, hydrospaces, hydrothoraces, hyperspaces, hypersurfaces, hyraces. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ACES": pacesetter, pacesetters, pacesetting, spaceship, spaceships, spacesuit, spacesuits. (additional references) | |
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"ACES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aacs, abces, abcess, abes, abez, aca, acab, Acak, acaos, acas, acase, Acaus, acaw, acca, acce, acces, acci, Accis, Accius, Accous, accs, Accu, accus, acees, acel, acen, acers, acet, acev, acey, acgs, achens, aci, Acibs, acic, acies, acii, acls, acose, acrss, acs, acsc, acsess, acsp, Acssi, acu, Acus, Aczel, Adcs, Ades, aece, Aecl, aecs, aesc, afcs, Afecs, Agcus, ahes, ajes, akas, Akast, Akdes, Akey, Akis, aks, akses, ancas, ances, Ancus, aoes, apcs, Aqesqn, ases, asos, asse, assez, asus, ates, aves, Ayce, ce, Ecas, ecs, ectes, eecs, esss, gces, Jacas, ocis, sces, vacas, vacs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ACES" (pronounced ā"suz) |
| 4 | ā" s u z | atlases, bases, braces, cases, chases, displaces, embraces, erases, faces, graces, laces, paces, places, races, replaces, spaces, traces, vases. |
| 3 | -s u z | absences, abuses, acceptances, accomplices, acquaintances, actresses, addresses, advances, affixes, albatrosses, aliases, allegiances, alliances, allowances, amaryllises, ambulances, annexes, announces, annoyances, apparatuses, appearances, appendixes, appliances, apprentices, asses, assesses, assurances, audiences, auspices, axes, congresses, consciences, consequences, continuances, contrivances, conveniences, converses, convinces, corpses, countenances, balances, basses, biases, Biosciences, blesses, blitzes, blouses, boardinghouses, bonuses, bookcases, bosses, bounces, bourses, boxes, briefcases, buses, businesses, Busses, buttresses, bypasses, cabooses, cadences, campuses, canvases, canvasses, carcasses, Casas, caucuses, cayuses, ceases, censuses, chances, choices, choruses, circumstances, circuses, classes, clearances, clearinghouses, climaxes, clubhouses, coaxes, coffeehouses, coincidences, collapses, commences, complexes, compresses, concourses, condolences, conferences, confesses, confidences, courses, courthouses, creases, cresses, crevices, crocuses, crosses, crosspieces, crucifixes, curses, dances, databases, decreases, defenses, denounces, depresses, devices, differences, disabuses, disallowances, disappearances, discourses, discusses, dismisses, dispenses, distances, distresses, disturbances, divergences, divorces, dollhouses, doses, dresses, earpieces, eclipses, embarrasses, eminences, encompasses, endorses, enforces, enhances, entrances, esses, evidences, excesses, excuses, exes, expanses, expenses, experiences, expresses, eyeglasses, eyewitnesses, farmhouses, faxes, fences, fetuses, finances, firehouses, fireplaces, fixes, flexes, flounces, focuses, forces, fortresses, foxes, fragrances, furnaces, fusses, gases, gasses, gearboxes, geniuses, glances, glasses, glimpses, glosses, goddesses, grasses, greenhouses, grievances, grimaces, grosses, grouses, guesses, guesthouses, harnesses, headdresses, hindrances, hippopotamuses, hisses, hoaxes, horses, hospices, hostesses, houses, hyraxes, ices, illnesses, imbalances, impresses, impulses, incidences, inconveniences, increases, indexes, induces, indulgences, inferences, influences, injustices, instances, insurances, interfaces, intersperses, introduces, invoices, irises, issuances, juices, jukeboxes, justices, kisses, lapses, latexes, leases, licences, licenses, lighthouses, likenesses, looses, losses, lynxes, mailboxes, marketplaces, masses, masterpieces, mattresses, medusas, messes, minibuses, minuses, misses, missus, mistresses, mixes, molasses, mongooses, morasses, mosses, mouthpieces, necklaces, nieces, nixes, notices, novices, nuances, nurses, observances, occurrences, offenses, offices, omnibuses, ordinances, orifices, ounces, outhouses, outpaces, overdoses, overpasses, palaces, paradoxes, passes, penises, performances, perplexes, perses, pieces, pizzas, pluses, polices, porpoises, possesses, poultices, powerhouses, practices, prances, preferences, prejudices, premises, presences, presses, pretenses, prices, princes, princesses, processes, produces, professes, progresses, prominences, promises, pronounces, prospectuses, protuberances, provinces, pulses, purchases, purposes, purses, pusses, racehorses, reassurances, recesses, reduces, references, refinances, reflexes, refocuses, rehearses, reimburses, reinforces, reintroduces, relapses, relaxes, releases, remembrances, reminiscences, reminisces, remittances, renounces, reproduces, repurchases, resemblances, residences, resources, responses, retroviruses, reverses, romances, sacrifices, sauces, sciences, sconces, seamstresses, senses, sentences, sequences, services, sexes, shoelaces, showcases, silences, sinuses, sixes, skyboxes, slaughterhouses, slices, solstices, sources, spices, splices, spouses, staircases, stances, statehouses, steakhouses, stewardesses, stresses, substances, successes, suffices, suitcases, sunglasses, suppresses, surfaces, surpasses, surpluses, surtaxes, taxes, terraces, tolerances, tortoises, tosses, townhouses, treatises, tresses, trusses, typefaces, universes, uses, utterances, variances, verses, versus, vices, viruses, voices, waitresses, walruses, waltzes, waxes, weaknesses, witnesses, workhorses, workplaces, xeroxes, yeses. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: case. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-s" | |
-1 letter: ace, sac, sae, sea, sec. | |
-2 letters: ae, as, es. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-s" | |
+1 letter: aches, acmes, acnes, acres, alecs, cades, cafes, cages, cakes, cames, canes, capes, cares, carse, cased, cases, caste, cates, cause, caves, cease, cesta, chase, daces, escar, faces, laces, maces, paces, races, saice, sauce, scale, scape, scare, scena, serac, space, taces. | |
+2 letters: access, accuse, ackees, acutes, amices, apices, arches, arecas, ascend, ascent, aspect, baches, becaps, braces, cabers, cables, caches, cadets, cadges, cadres, caesar, cagers, calces, calesa, calves, calxes, camels, cameos, camise, caners, canoes, capers, carers, caress, carets, caries, carles, carses, cartes, carves, casefy, caseic, casein, casern, cashed, cashes, cashew, casked, casket, casque, caster, castes, castle, caters, caules, caused, causer, causes, causey, cavers, cavies, cayuse, ceased, ceases, cedars, ceibas, centas, cerias, cestas, cesura, chafes, chaise, chapes, chares, chased, chaser, chases, chasse, chaste, cheaps, cheats, chelas, clades, clause, claves, cleans, clears, cleats, coarse, coaxes, costae, crakes, cranes, crapes, crases, crates, craves, crazes, creaks, creams, crease, creasy, cuesta, dances, decafs, decals, decays, eclats, enacts, encase, encash, epacts, ericas, escape, escarp, escars, eschar, exacts, facers, facets, facies, faeces, falces, farces, fasces, fauces, glaces, graces, haceks, hances, incase, lacers, laches, lances, macers, maches, macles, meccas, mescal, muscae, naches, nacres, nances, oceans, pacers, parsec, peaces, pecans, places, racers, rances, reacts, recaps, recast, sachem, sachet, sacked, sacker, sacque, sacred, saices, samech, sauced, saucer, sauces, scaled, scaler, scales, scaped, scapes, scarce, scared, scarer, scares, scarey, scathe, scenas, schema, sclera, scrape, screak, scream, seance, search, secant, secpar, seneca, seracs, socage, solace, spaced, spacer, spaces, spacey, spicae, stacte, stance, taches, traces, uncase, usance, vesica, wackes. | |
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