Pawn vs Null - 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)
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between pawn and null
is that 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 while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.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.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
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* pawn offAnagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.