Pawn vs Cog - What's the difference?
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(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.
*, New York, 2001, p.106:
* 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)
(label) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
*, Bk.V, Ch.iv:
*:As the Kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban, he felle in a slumberyng.
A tooth on a gear
A gear; a cogwheel
An unimportant individual in a greater system.
* 1976, Norman Denny (English translation),
* 1988,
(carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
(mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
to load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat
to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently
* Jonathan Swift
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
* Shakespeare
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
* J. Dennis
As a noun pawn
is (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 or pawn can be the state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge or pawn can be .As a verb pawn
is (video games) to render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games or pawn can be to pledge; to stake or wager.As a symbol cog is
the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for the republic of the congo.pawn
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) paun, .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
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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.
Synonyms
* (to deposit at a pawn shop) hockEtymology 3
Noun
(-)See also
* pawn offAnagrams
*cog
English
(wikipedia cog)Etymology 1
From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from (etyl) . See below.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) (compare (etyl) . The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.Noun
(en noun)- ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’
- Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do , then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog .
Derived terms
* cog jointVerb
(cogg)Etymology 3
Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.Verb
(cogg)- For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog .
- I'll cog their hearts from them.
- to cog in a word
- Fustian tragedies have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.