Pain vs Pawn - What's the difference?
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(countable, and, uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.
(countable) An annoying person or thing.
(uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
Labour; effort; pains.
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
(obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
(label) The most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.
(label) Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end, usually not the end that individual would prefer.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn -games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
(video games) To render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games.
The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
* Shakespeare
An instance of pawning something.
* Shakespeare
* John Donne
An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
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* Francis Bacon
(rare) A pawn shop, pawnbroker.
To pledge; to stake or wager.
To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
* 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
As nouns the difference between pain and pawn
is that pain is an ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt while pawn is the most common chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess each side has eight; moves are only forward, attacks are only forward diagonally or en passant.As verbs the difference between pain and pawn
is that pain is to hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture while pawn is to render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games.As a proper noun Pain
is an English surname, variant of Paine.pain
English
Noun
- The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain .
- I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
- In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
- Your mother is a right pain .
- You may not leave this room on pain of death.
- Interpose, on pain of my displeasure. — Dryden
- We will, by way of mulct or pain , lay it upon him. — Bacon
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.Synonyms
* (an annoying person or thing) pest * See alsoAntonyms
* pleasureHyponyms
* agony * anguish * pang * neuropathic pain * nociceptive pain * phantom pain * psychogenic painDerived terms
* pain in the arse * pain in the ass * pain in the back * pain in the bum * pain in the butt * pain in the neck * painkiller * painyVerb
(en verb)- The wound pained him.
- It pains me to say that I must let you go.
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) paun, .Noun
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(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) , apparently from a Germanic language (compare Middle Dutch pant, Old High German pfant).Noun
(en noun)- All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage.
- My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thy enemies.
- Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown.
- As the morning dew is a pawn of the evening fatness, so, O Lord, let this day's comfort be the earnest of to-morrow's.
- Brokers, takers of pawns , biting userers, I will not admit; yet I will tolerate some kind of usery.
- As for mortgaging or pawning,men will not take pawns without use [i.e. interest].
Verb
(en verb)- But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.