pion — meaning in English

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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