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pion — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • draught noun A current of cool air moving through a room, usually coming in through a gap around a door, window or chimney.
  • pawn verb To leave an item with a pawnbroker as security in exchange for money.
  • plummet verb To fall suddenly and steeply.

Senses

pion is used for these senses in English:

  • draught (British) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
  • 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.
  • pion (particle) Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.
  • plummet (archaic, nautical) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.

draught — full definition

  1. noun A current of cool air moving through a room, usually coming in through a gap around a door, window or chimney.
  2. adjective Of beer or cider: served from a cask or keg through a tap rather than from a bottle or can.
  3. noun An amount of liquid swallowed in one go; a long drink.

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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