ace of diamonds

English

Ace of diamonds

Noun

ace of diamonds (plural aces of diamonds)

1. (This entry is a translation hub.)
   • 1823, Encyclopaedia Britannica, V7, The Dioptrical Paradox, p.245

     Its effect is, that a print, or an ornamented drawing, with any object, such as an ace of diamonds. etc. in the centre F, (fig 6.) will be seen as the ace of clubs when it is placed in the machine ABCD, and viewed through a single glass only contained in the tube E.

Synonyms

• 🃁
• A♦

Translations

playing card

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方块A

• Danish: ruder es
• Esperanto: karoa aso
• Finnish: ruutuässä
• French: as de carreau (fr) m
• German: Karo-Ass n, Karoass (de) n
• Hungarian: káró ász
• Ingrian: ruutoässä
• Italian: asso di quadri m
• Japanese: ダイヤのエース (daiya no ēsu)
• Mongolian: дөрвөлжингийн тамга (dörvölžingiin tamga)
• Navajo: áás óola
• Portuguese: ás de ouros m
• Russian: бубно́вый туз (ru) m (bubnóvyj tuz), туз бу́бен m (tuz búben)
• Slovak: kárové eso n
• Spanish: as de diamantes m, as de oros m
• Swedish: ruter ess n
• Turkish: karo as
• Vietnamese: át rô