Ace

An ace is a playing card. In the standard French deck, an ace has a single suit symbol (a heart, diamond, spade, or club) located in the middle of the card, sometimes large and decorated, especially in the case of the Ace of Spades. This embellishment on the Ace of Spades started when King James VI of Scotland and I of England required an insignia of the printing house to be printed on the Ace of Spades. This insignia was necessary for identifying the printing house and stamping it as having paid the new stamp tax. Although this requirement was abolished in 1960, the tradition has been kept by many card makers. In other countries the stamp and embellishments are usually found on ace cards; clubs in France, diamonds in Russia, and hearts in Genoa because they have the most blank space.

The word "ace" comes from the Old French word as (from Latin 'as') meaning 'a unit', from the name of a small Roman coin. It originally meant the side of a die with only one mark, before it was a term for a playing card. Since this was the lowest roll of the die, it traditionally meant 'bad luck' in Middle English, but as the ace is often the highest playing card, its meaning has since changed to mean 'high-quality, excellence'. This connotation has seen the word applied to an unreachable tennis serve, a successful fighter pilot and more generally as a person proficient in his or her field, especially a sporting field.

Ace (disambiguation)

An ace is a playing card.

Ace, Aces, ACE or ACES may also refer to:

Sports

Terminology

  • Ace (baseball), a team's best starting pitcher
  • Ace (golf), a hole in one
  • Ace (tennis), a point won by the server without contest
  • Ace formation, in American football
  • Ace, a slang term for an asexual person
  • Teams

  • Alaska Aces (ECHL), an American ice hockey team
  • Alaska Aces (PBA), a Philippine basketball team
  • Alexandria Aces, an American baseball team in Virginia
  • Belle Vue Aces, an English motorcycle speedway team
  • Cornwall Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1993-1996
  • Dallas Aces, the world's first professional bridge team
  • Lower Merion High School Aces, the athletic teams at the school in suburban Philadelphia
  • Melbourne Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 2009
  • Northeast League Aces, a Canadian-American baseball team
  • Quebec Aces, a Canadian ice hockey team playing 1928-1971
  • Reno Aces, an American baseball team in Nevada
  • Victoria Aces, an Australian baseball team founded 1934
  • Geography

    Ace (Ian Van Dahl album)

    Ace is the debut studio album by the Belgian dance music act known as Ian Van Dahl, released in 2002. The album contains four songs that reached the top 20 of the UK singles chart: "Will I?" (#5); "Reason" (#8); "Try" (#15); and their biggest hit single, "Castles in the Sky", which reached #3 and spent seven weeks in the top 10 in the summer of 2001. This last song also reached the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S., where it peaked at #91. The album itself peaked at #7 in the UK, where it achieved Gold status after only four weeks. The album title was inspired by taking the first letters of the names of each member of the act; Annemie, Christophe and Eric.

    Track listings

  • "Intro" – 02:10
  • "Reason" – 03:21
  • "After All" – 05:56
  • "Satisfy Me" – 06:07
  • "Will I?" (UK Radio Mix) – 02:40
  • "Nights on Java" – 07:37
  • "Try" – 08:12
  • "Lonely" – 04:16
  • "Be Mine" – 03:04
  • "Castles in the Sky" – 03:46
  • "Nothing Left to Say" – 05:17
  • "Tears" – 03:20
  • "{'intəlu:d}" – 0:49
  • "Secret Love" – 03:14
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    Ace

    by: Lobo

    It hardly seems a long time just a minute of the day
    When the man who stood beside me more than gave himself away
    The food stain on his spotted shirt a gray beard on his face
    A man composed of many names so I just called him Ace
    Ace can't read and Ace can't write and
    He sleeps on a bench at night
    A little man the world has left behind
    He ain't bitter he ain't sweet
    Makes his living on the street
    Never knowin' what he's gonna find
    Born in Mississippi pickin' cotton as a child
    Left soon for the city where he heard that life was wild
    That was fifty years ago when nothin's really strange
    From a poor dirt farm to dirty streets is really not much change
    Ace can't read and Ace can't write and
    He sleeps on a bench at night
    A little man the world has left behind
    He ain't bitter he ain't sweet
    Makes his living on the street
    Never knowin' what he's gonna find
    Go back to the country no he really can't do that
    Wasted years have left him nothin' but an old straw hat
    So he puts it on his head and waves a last good-bye
    With no time left to turn around and no time to ask why
    Ace can't read and Ace can't write and
    He sleeps on a bench at night
    A little man the world has left behind
    He ain't bitter he ain't sweet
    Makes his living on the street
    Never knowin' what he's gonna find
    This old world has left poor Ace behind




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