Word Meanings - ACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds. 2. Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot. I 'll not wag an ace further. Dryden. To bate an ace, to make the least

Additional info about word: ACE

1. A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds. 2. Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot. I 'll not wag an ace further. Dryden. To bate an ace, to make the least abatement. -- Within an ace of, very near; on the point of. W. Irving.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACE)

• Unit
• Ace
• item
• part
• individual

Related words: (words related to ACE)

• INDIVIDUALIZER
  One who individualizes.
• INDIVIDUALLY
  1. In an individual manner or relation; as individuals; separately; each by itself. "Individually or collectively." Burke. How should that subsist solitarily by itself which hath no substance, but individually the very same whereby others subsist
• INDIVIDUALIZE
  The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality. The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish the humor of Addison. N. Drake.
• INDIVIDUAL
  dividuus divisible, fr. dividere to divide: cf. F. individuel. See 1. Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city. Mind has a being of its own, distinct
• INDIVIDUALITY
  1. The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity. Arbuthnot. They possess separate individualities. H. Spencer. 2. The character or property appropriate or peculiar to an
• INDIVIDUALIZATION
  The act of individualizing; the state of being individualized; individuation.
• INDIVIDUALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to the individual or individualism. London Athenæum.
• INDIVIDUALISM
  1. The quality of being individual; individuality; personality. 2. An excessive or exclusive regard to one's personal interest; self- interest; selfishness. The selfishness of the small proprietor has been described by the best writers
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.