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pion — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • man noun An adult male human being.
  • pawn verb To leave an item with a pawnbroker as security in exchange for money.
  • stone noun A hard natural material, or a piece of it, such as rock or a pebble.

Senses

pion is used for these senses in English:

  • man A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
  • pawn (chess) The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.
  • pawn (idiomatic) A person being manipulated by another, being used to some end.
  • pion (particle) Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.
  • stone (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.

man — full definition

  1. noun An adult male human being.
  2. noun Human beings collectively; humankind (an older, now often avoided, generic use).
  3. noun A husband or male romantic partner.
  4. verb To supply a place, post, or piece of equipment with the people needed to run or operate it.
  5. intj Used to add emphasis or express strong feeling, regardless of who is being addressed.

pawn — full definition

  1. verb To leave an item with a pawnbroker as security in exchange for money.
  2. noun The least valuable chess piece, which moves forward and captures diagonally.
  3. noun A person being used or manipulated by someone more powerful, for their own ends.

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