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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pants /pænts/USA pronunciation n. [plural]- Clothingtrousers:His pants were too short.
- Clothingunderpants, esp. for women and children;
panties. - British Terms, Clothingmen's underpants, esp. long drawers.
Idioms- Idioms wear the pants, to have the dominant role:Who wears the pants in that family, the husband or wife?
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pants (pants),USA pronunciation n. (used with a pl. v.) - Clothingtrousers (def. 1).
- Clothingunderpants, esp. for women and children;
panties. - British Terms, Clothingmen's underpants, esp. long drawers.
- Idioms wear the pants, to have the dominant role;
be in charge:I guess we know who wears the pants in that family.
- short for pantaloons 1830–40
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: pants /pænts/ pl n - Brit an undergarment reaching from the waist to the thighs or knees
- Also called: trousers a garment shaped to cover the body from the waist to the ankles or knees with separate tube-shaped sections for both legs
- scare the pants off ⇒ informal to scare extremely
adj - Brit slang inferior
Etymology: 19th Century: shortened from pantaloons; see pantaloon pant1 /pænt/USA pronunciation v. - Physiology to breathe hard and quickly, as after hard work:[no object]He ran up seven flights of stairs, panting and gasping for air.
- Physiology to breathe or say rapidly or with gasps:[used with quotations]"Look out,'' she panted, "he's after us.''
- to wish for or desire with strong eagerness;
yearn:[no object]to pant for revenge.
n. [countable] - Physiologya short, quick effort to breathe;
gasp.
pant2 /pænt/USA pronunciation adj. [before a noun]- Clothingof or relating to pants:a pant leg; pant cuffs.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pant1 (pant),USA pronunciation v.i. - Physiologyto breathe hard and quickly, as after exertion.
- Physiologyto gasp, as for air.
- to long with breathless or intense eagerness;
yearn:to pant for revenge. - Physiologyto throb or heave violently or rapidly;
palpitate. - to emit steam or the like in loud puffs.
- Nautical, Naval Terms(of the bow or stern of a ship) to work with the shock of contact with a succession of waves. Cf. work (def. 30).
v.t. - Physiologyto breathe or utter gaspingly.
n. - Physiologythe act of panting.
- Physiologya short, quick, labored effort at breathing;
gasp. - a puff, as of an engine.
- Physiologya throb or heave, as of the breast.
- Greek phantasioûn to have or form images. See fantasy
- Vulgar Latin *phantasiāre to have visions
- Middle French pant(a)is(i)er
- late Middle English panten 1400–50
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged puff, blow. Pant, gasp suggest breathing with more effort than usual. Pant suggests rapid, convulsive breathing, as from violent exertion or excitement:to pant after running for the train.Gasp suggests catching one's breath in a single quick intake, as from amazement, terror, and the like, or a series of such quick intakes of breath, as in painful breathing:to gasp with horror; to gasp for breath.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged thirst, hunger.
pant2 (pant),USA pronunciation adj. - Clothingof or pertaining to pants:pant cuffs.
n. - ClothingSee pant leg.
- Clothingpants (defs. 1, 2).
- singular of pants 1890–95
- var. of panto- before a vowel.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: pant /pænt/ vb - to breathe with noisy deep gasps, as when out of breath from exertion or excitement
- to say (something) while breathing thus
- (intransitive) often followed by for: to have a frantic desire (for); yearn
- (intransitive) to pulsate; throb rapidly
n - the act or an instance of panting
- a short deep gasping noise; puff
Etymology: 15th Century: from Old French pantaisier, from Greek phantasioun to have visions, from phantasia fantasy |