ace vs ideal

ace

adj
  • Excellent. 

  • Asexual, not experiencing sexual attraction. 

verb
  • To win a point by an ace. 

  • To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly. 

  • To make an ace (hole in one). 

noun
  • A hole in one. 

  • The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games. 

  • An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person owning a "first rank" talent. 

  • A perfect score on a school exam. 

  • A dollar bill. 

  • A person who is asexual. 

  • A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more. 

  • The best pitcher on the team. 

  • Any of various hesperiid butterflies. 

  • A card or die face so marked. 

  • A single point or spot on a playing card or die normally indicating it as the prime, i.e. first and forefront. (in playing cards, of that series) 

  • A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc. 

  • A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot. 

  • A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball. 

ideal

adj
  • Perfect, flawless, having no defects. 

  • Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included. 

  • Optimal; being the best possibility. 

  • Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary. 

  • Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea. 

  • Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism. 

noun
  • A subsemigroup with the property that if any semigroup element outside of it is added to any one of its members, the result must lie outside of it. 

  • A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring. 

  • A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins). 

  • A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection. 

  • A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at. 

  • A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) 𝖍 of a given Lie algebra 𝖌 such that the Lie bracket [𝖌,𝖍] is a subset of 𝖍. 

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