What's the difference between pean and peon?

Pean


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.
  • (n.) A song of praise and triumph. See Paean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Leading 59,999 of his disciples to the island of Pean in the Aegean Sea, he grafted a new race from the germs of black people.
  • (2) Clinical indications, operative findings, technical details and pathological studies in 228 Billroth-I-Pean gastrict resections for gastric ulcer, are represented in detail.
  • (3) The thoracic aorta was clamped by a Pean's clamp in the 1st group (11 animals).
  • (4) The paper reports the results of a follow-up of 25 patients who underwent gastric resection using Roux's technique, 15 patients undergoing reconstructive surgery according to Pean-Billroth and 15 who underwent Billroth II operations.
  • (5) The lace was protracted around an intestine, both ends were threaded through 7-10 cm long rubber tube and fixed by Pean's forceps.

Peon


Definition:

  • (n.) See Poon.
  • (n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.
  • (n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
  • (n.) See 2d Pawn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If any of the poor little peons that they don’t care about don’t have that paycheck coming, they can’t buy your stuff.” To those who say robots are taking more jobs than Mexicans, she points to the number of factories across the border.
  • (2) But more than anything, Maddox – who did not want her picture taken – voted for the incoming president because she sees him as on the side of people like her, those she calls the “peons” at the mercy of big business and indifferent politicians.

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