(card games) Aplaying card showing a singlepip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.
1948 January 1, “Deck of Cards” (track 20), inFamous Country Music Makers[1], performed byTex Ritter:
You see, Sir, when I look at theAce it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
(dice games) Adieface marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
The ball marked with the number 1 inpool and related games.
2012, Arv Olson,Backspin: 120 Years of Golf in British Columbia, page253:
"Most of theaces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for mostaces in a year.
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"Some people who identify asace fall under the GLBT umbrella while many others do not. Members of the queer movement have reached out to asexuals to include them in their community. The acronym for this has now become GLBTQA (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and asexual)."
“I was 14 when I first realized I had no interest in sex,” Jed Strohm, a happily satisfied, romantic asexual from upstate New York, said. “I identified asace (asexual) and the group leader said I was too attractive.”
“If you identify asace [asexual] and you just don’t feel like having sex, then for me, sex-positive means, ‘That’s great! It’s fantastic you don’t want to have sex!’” says McGown.
For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:ace.
Asexuals are programmed differently, like anybody else on the LGBTQXYZ spectrum, but difference is cool! Difference is perhaps the best part of being queer. Own it,aces!
2013 April, Leigh Miller, “(A)Sexual Healing”, inJerk, volume XII, number V, Syracuse University, page23:
Negativity toward asexuality can make emergingaces fear that something is wrong with them.
G. F. said she came up with the idea of creating an asexual group last semester, when she was struggling with the way being anace was affecting her personal life.
For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:ace.
2025 June 16, Júlia Portes, Lucas Espogeiro, “Saque decisivo de Darlan chega a 130 km/h, e oposto mira recorde mundial; veja lance”, inge[3], Rio de Janeiro: Globo, archived fromthe original on16 June 2025:
Além do resultado positivo, umace decisivo de Darlan chamou atenção na reta final do segundo set.
2019 June 25, “Assexual e casada: como é viver numa relação em que só você é indiferente ao sexo”,Amor & Sexo, in anonymous translator,Glamour[4], Rio de Janeiro: Globo, translation ofWhat It Means to Be on the Asexuality Spectrum by Emily McCarty, archived fromthe original on26 September 2023:
Pessoas assexuais podem também ter relações românticas e amores platônicos que não necessariamente estão ligadas a sexo. Elas podem ser "aces" (assexuadas) e “aro” (românticas), ou nenhum dos dois.
[original:Aces can also have romantic relationships, a platonic attraction separate from sexual desire. They might be bothace and "aro" (or aromantic) and have no inclination toward people sexually or romantically.]
2023, Mariana Chaznas, “2020, 2020, 2020, 2020... Ou: cinquenta anos em um”, inA hora certa; published inA gente se vê na parada, Rio de Janeiro: HarperCollins,2023,→ISBN,unnumbered page:
Conversei com Rayssa. Li bastante. Conversei de novo com Rayssa. Acheiinfluencersaces e conversei outra vez com Rayssa, e tive que aceitar que ela nunca entenderia como eu me sentia. Estava longe demais da realidade dela. Eu era outro planeta.
2021 June 30, Jessica Klein, “Assexualidade: como orientação sexual 'invisível' saiu do armário”, inBBC News Brasil[6], Brasília, archived fromthe original on30 June 2021:
Antes do Dia Internacional da Assexualidade, Manuel criou o AceChat, uma conta no Instagram em que compartilha regularmente histórias de diferentes pessoas que se identificam comoace.
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