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Pawn vs Lawn - What's the difference?

pawn | lawn |

As nouns the difference between pawn and lawn

is that 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 while lawn is an open space between woods.

As a verb pawn

is to render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games.

As a proper noun Lawn is

a town in Newfoundland and Labrador.

pawn

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) paun, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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”.
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (video games) To render one's opponent a mere pawn, especially in a real-time strategy games.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , apparently from a Germanic language (compare Middle Dutch pant, Old High German pfant).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
    • All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thy enemies.
  • An instance of pawning something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown.
  • * John Donne
    • 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.
  • An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
  • *, New York, 2001, p.106:
    • Brokers, takers of pawns , biting userers, I will not admit; yet I will tolerate some kind of usery.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • As for mortgaging or pawning,men will not take pawns without use [i.e. interest].
  • (rare) A pawn shop, pawnbroker.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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)
    • But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.
    Synonyms
    * (to deposit at a pawn shop) hock

    Etymology 3

    Noun

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    • See also

    * pawn off

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    lawn

    English

    (wikipedia lawn)

    Etymology 1

    Early Modern English "; Old Norse & Old English land

    Noun

  • An open space between woods.
  • Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
  • * , chapter=1
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
  • (lb) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
    • Derived terms
    * lawn mower * lawned

    Etymology 2

    Apparently from (Laon) , a town in France known for its linen manufacturing.

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
    • The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 144:
    • He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.
  • (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
  • (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
  • * 1910 , Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie :

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