Ensign vs Pendant - What's the difference?

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Ensign is a related term of pendant.

As a proper noun ensign

is .

As a noun pendant is

counterpart.

ensign

English

(wikipedia ensign)

Noun

(en noun)

A badge of office, rank, or power.

* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)

The ensigns of our power about we bear.

The lowest grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade.

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A flag or banner carried by military units. See standard, color, colour.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Hang up your ensigns , let your drums be still.

(label) The principal flag or banner flown by a ship to indicate nationality.

A junior commissioned officer in the 18th and 19th Centuries whose duty was to carry the unit's ensign.

A prominent flag or banner.

* 1667 ?, (John Milton), (Paradise Lost)

Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanced.

Synonyms

(junior commissioned officer) * coronet (cavalry equivalent of the infantry ensign) * second lieutenant (OF-1), first NATO commissioned officer grade above OF-0 trainee officer

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To designate as by an ensign.

To distinguish by a mark or ornament

(heraldry) To distinguish by an ornament, especially by a crown.

Any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned .

pendant

English

Alternative forms

* pendaunt (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

(architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter.

(obsolete, in the plural) Testicles.

A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck.

(nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant.

The dangling part of an earring.

(obsolete) An appendix or addition, as to a book.

* Keightley

Many have been pleased with this work and its pendant , the Tales and Popular Fictions.

(fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.

One vase is the pendant to the other vase.

(obsolete) A pendulum.

(US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.

(Knight)