What's the difference between member and pawn?

Member


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.
  • (n.) A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
  • (n.) Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body
  • (n.) A part of a discourse or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse.
  • (n.) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the sign of equality.
  • (n.) Any essential part, as a post, tie rod, strut, etc., of a framed structure, as a bridge truss.
  • (n.) Any part of a building, whether constructional, as a pier, column, lintel, or the like, or decorative, as a molding, or group of moldings.
  • (n.) One of the persons composing a society, community, or the like; an individual forming part of an association; as, a member of the society of Friends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
  • (2) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
  • (3) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
  • (4) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
  • (5) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
  • (6) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.
  • (7) In the 2nd family, several members had cerebellar signs, chorea, and dementia.
  • (8) These tumors may nonetheless be etiologically related as indicated by the pattern of laboratory abnormalities, especially immunologic, in affected as well as unaffected members.
  • (9) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
  • (10) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
  • (11) "These developments are clearly unwarranted on the basis of economic and budgetary fundamentals in these two member states and the steps that they are taking to reinforce those fundamentals."
  • (12) In every case the patient was the first affected family member.
  • (13) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
  • (14) In this paper sensitive and selective bioassays are described for growth factors acting on substrate-attached cells, in particular members of the epidermal growth factor, transforming growth factor beta, platelet-derived growth factor, insulin-like growth factor, and heparin-binding growth factor families.
  • (15) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
  • (16) Half of the DRw11-positive panel members are DQw3 negative and DQw1 positive.
  • (17) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
  • (18) From November, 1972 to November, 1974 the members of the team of a haemodialysis unit were systematically given Australia antigen immunoglobulin protection.
  • (19) A “significant” number of resignations from the party had come in on Tuesday and Giles queried whether the CLP still had the 500 members it needs to remain registered.
  • (20) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.

Pawn


Definition:

  • (n.) See Pan, the masticatory.
  • (n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.
  • (n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
  • (n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
  • (n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.
  • (v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.
  • (v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
  • (2) I had jewellery, so I pawned all that, and I taught yoga – that paid the school fees.
  • (3) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
  • (4) In his two interrogations in Belgium, Abdeslam gave the impression he was merely a pawn of Abaaoud and his own brother Brahim, who blew himself up outside a Paris cafe.
  • (5) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
  • (6) Experiments were done on wild type P. caudatum and on both the wild type and a pawn mutant of P. tetraurelia.
  • (7) For most women born into the political world, their job description is more pawn than queen: to serve as the physical embodiment of political alliances by marrying husbands chosen by their fathers and giving birth to male heirs.
  • (8) If in the past the 'louts' were forgotten, it looks like they could now be used as pawns by France's politicians.
  • (9) Mutants of Paramecium aurelia that are unable to reverse swimming direction are called pawns.
  • (10) We’re extremely worried that she’s being used as a political pawn.
  • (11) The kinetic properties of the ciliary membrane Ca2+ ATPase activity in wild type and several behavioral mutants were similar except for those in the pawn mutant, d495, and the paranoiac mutant, d490, both of which had lower specific activities.
  • (12) Photograph: PA Walker went on: “In stark contrast to how we were treated by the police, the CPS and court staff who were truly respectful and sensitive, I don’t think that as victims we have been treated with genuine respect, but are pawns in the BBC’s ambition to be seen to protect its reputation.
  • (13) But he added, repeating Putin's line, that people "should not turn into 'pawns' in the hands of those who want to destroy our country".
  • (14) He refers to the battle as a "different titans' game" which makes the Standard seem like a pawn.
  • (15) To keep up, the older generation has begun pawning heirlooms and jewellery to get through the winter.
  • (16) A small girl's placard proclaimed: "When the situation is as dire as this I don't mind my parents using me as a political pawn."
  • (17) Surrogate mothering and surrogate gestational mothering force us to redefine the age old dictum mater certa est and can render the child a helpless pawn in parental, emotional, and legal strife.
  • (18) The government of Nauru has said most incidents detailed in the Nauru files were “fabricated” and has accused Australian media and politicians of using refugees as political pawns.
  • (19) Two heat-sensitive "pawn" mutants of Paramecium aurelia are capable of avoiding reactions when grown at 23 degrees C but not at 35 degrees C. Electrophysiological analyses show that Ca activation is reduces in the mutants even when they are grown at 23 degrees C. The maximal rate of rise and the peak of the evoked action potential (Ca-spike) in the mutants are smaller than those of wild type in a K-solution.
  • (20) Contrary to media reports, most passengers have not become pawns in an epic industrial battle pitting the human right to free assembly against corporate self-determination.

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