Ace and Lead

Ace

Ace noun - A person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field.

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Lead and ace are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lead" instead a noun "Ace".

Lead noun - The person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show.

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Ace and lead are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ace" instead a noun "Lead".

Nearby Words: leading, leader, leaden, leadership, leaded

sympathetic	sympathetic ace	sympathetic lead
human	human ace	human lead
female	female ace	female lead
normal	normal ace	normal lead
Other adjectives: typical, certain, original, true, single, powerful, actual, real, huge, new, early, heroic, former, primary, previous.

And you never win when you're alone unless you're Milky Rose or Cure Moonlight or Cure Ace or the lead Cure in episode 1.

Source: Franchise / Pretty Cure
Ace does this on Love Gun's song "Shock Me", since before that Ace was too shy to record lead vocals on any song, and since then continues to sing lead.

Source: Music / KISS
The Ace of Spades doesn't need to play lead guitar to be awesome.

Source: Lead Bassist

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