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noun pɔːnpɔn 1A chess piece of the smallest size and value, that moves one square forwards along its file if unobstructed (or two on the first move), or one square diagonally forwards when making a capture. Each player begins with eight pawns on the second rank, and can promote a pawn to become any other piece (typically a queen) if it reaches the opponent's end of the board. Example sentencesExamples - He showed me how to move the various kings, queens, and pawns across the exquisite little board.
- Also important is the number of pawns on the board, especially when the minor piece is the knight.
- A player starts off with a king, a queen, eight pawns, and two each of bishops, knights and rooks.
- Finally when a player promotes a pawn, they swap it for one of the pieces that their partner's opponent is waiting to place on their board.
- White has his Rook on the seventh rank and Black's queenside pawns are very weak.
- ‘Yes, he said that,’ Gregory said, moving his pawn diagonally to take his companion's bishop.
- In one smooth stroke I moved my queen, captured one of her pawns and threatened to put her in check.
- Leon picked up a piece, one of his last pawns, and moved it.
- Rather, I contend that adhering to some principle about not moving such pawns can limit one's play.
- It should be developed on the original diagonal without wasting time to push the second pawn.
- White cannot prevent the pawns from lining up on the sixth rank.
- We can see that without Queens on the board Black's doubled pawns severely impair his mobility.
- While Black's Queen is busy snacking on pawns, White rushes to bring out all his pieces.
- He moved his knight forward and deftly captured one of her pawns.
- He looked down at the chess board, at a pawn, and wondered what he would be like.
- Floyd replied by moving his murderous pawn one space forward.
- Black nudges lots of pawns forward to the third rank and comes out of his corner slowly.
- The game of chess with sword-wielding pawns and deadly queens is both dramatic and mightily beautiful.
- He started at his white pawn and moved it forward two spaces.
- All squares from h4 all the way back to h8 are covered by Black's pieces and pawns.
- 1.1 A person used by others for their own purposes.
he was a pawn in the game of power politics Example sentencesExamples - Humans are weak, emotional, and dull minded pawns in this endless game of life.
- In other words, homeless people had been used as pawns in a political game.
- It is a simple role about how she becomes a pawn in the game of life.
- Few wealthy Americans would turn down an old-world honour that money can't buy, but none would wish to be a pawn in a game of transatlantic politics.
- Do not let the management use her as a pawn in their little game of oppression.
- Up to now, these nations have been able to play around with terrorists as if they were pawns in this geopolitical game.
- And the operatives were only pawns in their ultimate game of cat and mouse.
- Or was he merely a practical pawn in a deadly game?
- Using children as pawns in this game is morally disgusting.
- They were no longer willing to be pawns in the game of power being played out between the Indian and Pakistani governments, or indeed the militants.
- But as the editor pointed out some weeks ago, we are only a pawn in a game.
- They are being used as pawns in a political game which will cost lives.
- I was just a pawn in the game between father and son.
- What is happening to our country when well-off landowners can be allowed to treat those less fortunate as pawns in some commercial game?
- Many times we realise, only in hindsight, that we have been only a pawns in somebody's game.
- When did it become okay to use students as pawns in a twisted game?
- For almost 40 years, they were used as pawns in a game that was supposed to prove which system was better.
- Just smile and nod and try to understand that your professor is merely a pawn in the game of capitalism.
- Luck has very little to do with romance, other than to maintain the illusion that we are helpless pawns in the game of love.
- To her father, she was merely a bargaining tool, a pawn in the game of politics, not a daughter.
Synonyms puppet, dupe, hostage, counter, cog tool, cat's paw, instrument informal stooge
Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French poun, from medieval Latin pedo, pedon- 'foot soldier', from Latin pes, ped- 'foot'. Compare with peon. There are two separate words here. The pawn in chess came via Anglo-Norman French poun, from medieval Latin pedo ‘foot soldier’, from Latin pes, ped- ‘foot’ (source of pedal (early 17th century), pedestal (mid 16th century), and pedestrian (mid 18th century)). Figurative use ‘a person used by others for their own purposes’ is recorded from the late 16th century. In the sense ‘to deposit an object as security for money lent’, pawn entered English from French pan ‘pledge, security’ in the 15th century.
Rhymes adorn, born, borne, bourn, Braun, brawn, corn, dawn, drawn, faun, fawn, forborne, forewarn, forlorn, freeborn, lawn, lorn, morn, mourn, newborn, Norn, outworn, prawn, Quorn, sawn, scorn, Sean, shorn, spawn, suborn, sworn, thorn, thrawn, torn, Vaughan, warn, withdrawn, worn, yawn verb pɔːnpɔn [with object]Deposit (an object) with a pawnbroker as security for money lent. I pawned the necklace to cover the loan Example sentencesExamples - We have been pawning the family silver to pleasure ourselves.
- I was so desperate I was down to pawning my grandmother's ring.
- Yep, it's her daughters who are pawning jewellery, working extra shifts and using their holiday time to look after her.
- Sources said the man purchased a ring at the jewelry store sometime ago, but pawned it at another branch soon afterwards.
- And when the fight breaks out, they're the ones picking off all the jewelry and pawning it and selling it on ebay.
- Women pawned their husbands suits every week just to get money for food.
- In earlier centuries, the principal assets people had were their clothes, and they borrowed money by pawning their clothing.
- Well, he was watching the space where the television would have been if I hadn't pawned it on Saturday to help pay the rent.
- When Florentine grooms gave presents of jewels and clothes to their brides, they expected to retain or reappropriate the use of them at a later date, sometimes lending or pawning them.
- I loved her, really, but I needed to pay for a late payment on my car insurance so I pawned her diamond necklace.
- The reality is she's out pawning jewelry and he's paying cash for a boat and keeping it a secret.
- Now, I'm thinking about pawning the stereo so I can upgrade to a bigger Yahoo mailbox.
- With no money to go to Washington D.C. to audition, she had to choose between pawning her karaoke machine or her wedding ring.
- However, such was his poverty that the revolutionary seer was reduced to pawning the silver.
- It was the one luxury they enjoyed, and no matter how desperate they might be for money, they never entertained the thought of pawning their computer.
- My mother pawned her jewellery to make ends meet and my father went into clinical depression for four years, having lost everything.
- I can remember once she told me how she pawned a wedding ring so she could afford to feed a cat in her care.
- He speaks from experience: back in the beginning, a month after he pawned his cameras, he bought them back with money he made from some of his photographs.
- After spending six months dancing in the United States, she returned in 1991 and pawned her jewellery to raise start-up cash.
- A thief pawned a gold ring then snatched it back along with the cash he was being paid for it.
Synonyms pledge, deposit with a pawnbroker, put in pawn, give as security, put up as security/collateral, use as collateral, mortgage informal hock, put in hock British informal pop
noun pɔːnpɔn archaic An object left as security for money lent. the bank did lend money upon pawns at low interest
Phrases (of an object) held as security by a pawnbroker. our money was gone and everything was in pawn Example sentencesExamples - A forty-dollar shovel will net you less than six bucks in pawn.
- She can't afford to pay off the money all at once and must leave her things in pawn.
- Unfortunately, his guitar is in pawn down at the local hock shop because he can't pay his bills on time.
Phrasal Verbs pawn someone/something off Pass off someone or something unwanted. newly industrialized economies are racing to pawn off old processes on poorer countries Example sentencesExamples - I mean, they've tried to pawn it off on everyone else, why not me?
- I'm hoping I can pawn it off on to someone else so it's not at my desk all day.
- The federal government pawned this responsibility off to the municipalities.
- Prudie is not sure the dinner guests were even trying to pawn these things off as new.
- I think you need to think about this the next time you decide to support someone who clearly has taken someone else's solution and tried to pawn it off as her own.
- And, thankfully, at least some of the forms can be pawned off on someone else.
- They can steal ideas, for example, and pawn them off as their own.
- And now her father planned to pawn her off to some clumsy, sword-swinging, foolish son of a peasant?
- I was able to pawn my copy off over the Internet in less than a day.
- Still, his partner was going to pay for pawning him off on the woman.
- You don't have the inclination or technical wits to employ the older machine as part of a home network, nor a young kid to pawn it off on.
- You don't want the job, or the responsibility that you have, and I can understand that, but don't sell yourself short, and don't try to pawn it off on someone less qualified.
- Instead, they pawn it off on the Province's tightfistedness.
- It might seem like you're trying to pawn him off, and what if he's not interested in her?
- It's beyond me why they even make such insubstantial little hook and wire gizmos and pawn them off as security devices.
- Is it such a normal thing, for fathers to pawn their daughters off like a hawker selling cheap trinkets?
- People could've died, and they'd just pawn it off as a tragic accident.
- If they are sold over the counter to adults, criminals will no longer have to pawn these goods off on innocent youths.
- Both boys are pawned off on grandmothers, who will die early and represent the only selfless love either child will know.
- It will only be a matter of time before they try to pawn it off in the black market.
Origin Late 15th century (as a noun): from Old French pan 'pledge, security', of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch pand and German Pfand. nounpônpɔn 1A chess piece of the smallest size and value. A pawn moves one square forward along its file if unobstructed (or two on the first move), or one square diagonally forward when making a capture. Each player begins with eight pawns on the second rank, and can promote a pawn to become any other piece (typically a queen) if it reaches the opponent's end of the board. Example sentencesExamples - Also important is the number of pawns on the board, especially when the minor piece is the knight.
- We can see that without Queens on the board Black's doubled pawns severely impair his mobility.
- He started at his white pawn and moved it forward two spaces.
- It should be developed on the original diagonal without wasting time to push the second pawn.
- ‘Yes, he said that,’ Gregory said, moving his pawn diagonally to take his companion's bishop.
- While Black's Queen is busy snacking on pawns, White rushes to bring out all his pieces.
- He showed me how to move the various kings, queens, and pawns across the exquisite little board.
- A player starts off with a king, a queen, eight pawns, and two each of bishops, knights and rooks.
- White has his Rook on the seventh rank and Black's queenside pawns are very weak.
- White cannot prevent the pawns from lining up on the sixth rank.
- He moved his knight forward and deftly captured one of her pawns.
- He looked down at the chess board, at a pawn, and wondered what he would be like.
- In one smooth stroke I moved my queen, captured one of her pawns and threatened to put her in check.
- Rather, I contend that adhering to some principle about not moving such pawns can limit one's play.
- The game of chess with sword-wielding pawns and deadly queens is both dramatic and mightily beautiful.
- Black nudges lots of pawns forward to the third rank and comes out of his corner slowly.
- Finally when a player promotes a pawn, they swap it for one of the pieces that their partner's opponent is waiting to place on their board.
- Leon picked up a piece, one of his last pawns, and moved it.
- All squares from h4 all the way back to h8 are covered by Black's pieces and pawns.
- Floyd replied by moving his murderous pawn one space forward.
- 1.1 A person used by others for their own purposes.
they had allowed themselves to be used as pawns within the Cold War Example sentencesExamples - It is a simple role about how she becomes a pawn in the game of life.
- They are being used as pawns in a political game which will cost lives.
- Luck has very little to do with romance, other than to maintain the illusion that we are helpless pawns in the game of love.
- In other words, homeless people had been used as pawns in a political game.
- To her father, she was merely a bargaining tool, a pawn in the game of politics, not a daughter.
- Humans are weak, emotional, and dull minded pawns in this endless game of life.
- Do not let the management use her as a pawn in their little game of oppression.
- They were no longer willing to be pawns in the game of power being played out between the Indian and Pakistani governments, or indeed the militants.
- What is happening to our country when well-off landowners can be allowed to treat those less fortunate as pawns in some commercial game?
- Or was he merely a practical pawn in a deadly game?
- When did it become okay to use students as pawns in a twisted game?
- And the operatives were only pawns in their ultimate game of cat and mouse.
- For almost 40 years, they were used as pawns in a game that was supposed to prove which system was better.
- Up to now, these nations have been able to play around with terrorists as if they were pawns in this geopolitical game.
- Few wealthy Americans would turn down an old-world honour that money can't buy, but none would wish to be a pawn in a game of transatlantic politics.
- Using children as pawns in this game is morally disgusting.
- Many times we realise, only in hindsight, that we have been only a pawns in somebody's game.
- I was just a pawn in the game between father and son.
- But as the editor pointed out some weeks ago, we are only a pawn in a game.
- Just smile and nod and try to understand that your professor is merely a pawn in the game of capitalism.
Synonyms puppet, dupe, hostage, counter, cog
Origin Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French poun, from medieval Latin pedo, pedon- ‘foot soldier’, from Latin pes, ped- ‘foot’. Compare with peon. verbpɔnpôn [with object]Deposit (an object) with a pawnbroker as security for money lent. I pawned the necklace to cover the loan Example sentencesExamples - It was the one luxury they enjoyed, and no matter how desperate they might be for money, they never entertained the thought of pawning their computer.
- When Florentine grooms gave presents of jewels and clothes to their brides, they expected to retain or reappropriate the use of them at a later date, sometimes lending or pawning them.
- In earlier centuries, the principal assets people had were their clothes, and they borrowed money by pawning their clothing.
- We have been pawning the family silver to pleasure ourselves.
- Now, I'm thinking about pawning the stereo so I can upgrade to a bigger Yahoo mailbox.
- Yep, it's her daughters who are pawning jewellery, working extra shifts and using their holiday time to look after her.
- The reality is she's out pawning jewelry and he's paying cash for a boat and keeping it a secret.
- A thief pawned a gold ring then snatched it back along with the cash he was being paid for it.
- With no money to go to Washington D.C. to audition, she had to choose between pawning her karaoke machine or her wedding ring.
- I was so desperate I was down to pawning my grandmother's ring.
- Well, he was watching the space where the television would have been if I hadn't pawned it on Saturday to help pay the rent.
- Women pawned their husbands suits every week just to get money for food.
- He speaks from experience: back in the beginning, a month after he pawned his cameras, he bought them back with money he made from some of his photographs.
- I can remember once she told me how she pawned a wedding ring so she could afford to feed a cat in her care.
- My mother pawned her jewellery to make ends meet and my father went into clinical depression for four years, having lost everything.
- After spending six months dancing in the United States, she returned in 1991 and pawned her jewellery to raise start-up cash.
- I loved her, really, but I needed to pay for a late payment on my car insurance so I pawned her diamond necklace.
- However, such was his poverty that the revolutionary seer was reduced to pawning the silver.
- And when the fight breaks out, they're the ones picking off all the jewelry and pawning it and selling it on ebay.
- Sources said the man purchased a ring at the jewelry store sometime ago, but pawned it at another branch soon afterwards.
Synonyms pledge, deposit with a pawnbroker, put in pawn, give as security, put up as collateral, put up as security, use as collateral, mortgage
nounpɔnpôn archaic An object left as security for money lent.
Phrases (of an object) held as security by a pawnbroker. all our money was gone and everything was in pawn Example sentencesExamples - A forty-dollar shovel will net you less than six bucks in pawn.
- Unfortunately, his guitar is in pawn down at the local hock shop because he can't pay his bills on time.
- She can't afford to pay off the money all at once and must leave her things in pawn.
Phrasal Verbs pawn someone/something off Pass off someone or something unwanted. newly industrialized economies are racing to pawn off old processes on poorer countries Example sentencesExamples - You don't have the inclination or technical wits to employ the older machine as part of a home network, nor a young kid to pawn it off on.
- It's beyond me why they even make such insubstantial little hook and wire gizmos and pawn them off as security devices.
- Instead, they pawn it off on the Province's tightfistedness.
- People could've died, and they'd just pawn it off as a tragic accident.
- I think you need to think about this the next time you decide to support someone who clearly has taken someone else's solution and tried to pawn it off as her own.
- They can steal ideas, for example, and pawn them off as their own.
- And, thankfully, at least some of the forms can be pawned off on someone else.
- I was able to pawn my copy off over the Internet in less than a day.
- Still, his partner was going to pay for pawning him off on the woman.
- It will only be a matter of time before they try to pawn it off in the black market.
- The federal government pawned this responsibility off to the municipalities.
- If they are sold over the counter to adults, criminals will no longer have to pawn these goods off on innocent youths.
- You don't want the job, or the responsibility that you have, and I can understand that, but don't sell yourself short, and don't try to pawn it off on someone less qualified.
- It might seem like you're trying to pawn him off, and what if he's not interested in her?
- Is it such a normal thing, for fathers to pawn their daughters off like a hawker selling cheap trinkets?
- Both boys are pawned off on grandmothers, who will die early and represent the only selfless love either child will know.
- Prudie is not sure the dinner guests were even trying to pawn these things off as new.
- And now her father planned to pawn her off to some clumsy, sword-swinging, foolish son of a peasant?
- I mean, they've tried to pawn it off on everyone else, why not me?
- I'm hoping I can pawn it off on to someone else so it's not at my desk all day.
Origin Late 15th century (as a noun): from Old French pan ‘pledge, security’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch pand and German Pfand. |