panting

pant ¹  (pnt)

v. pant·ed, pant·ing, pants

v.intr.

1. To breathe rapidly in short gasps, as after exertion.

2. To beat loudly or heavily; throb or pulsate.

3. To give off loud puffs, especially while moving.

4. To long demonstratively; yearn: was panting for a chance to play.

v.tr.

To utter hurriedly or breathlessly: I panted my congratulations to the winner of the race.

n.

1. A short labored breath; a gasp.

2. A throb; a pulsation.

3. A short loud puff, as of steam from an engine.

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[Middle English panten, perhaps alteration of Old French pantaisier, from Vulgar Latin *pantasire, from Greek phantasioun, to form images, from phantasi, appearance; see fantasy.]

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panting·ly adv.

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pant ²  (pnt)

n.

1. Trousers. Often used in the plural.

2. Underpants. Often used in the plural.

Idiom:

with (one's) pants down Slang

In an embarrassing position.

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[Short for pantaloon.]

Word History: One would not expect a word for a modern article of clothing to come ultimately from the name of a 4th-century Roman Catholic saint, but that is the case with the word pants. It can be traced back to Pantaleon, the patron saint of Venice. He became so closely associated with the inhabitants of that city that the Venetians were popularly known as Pantaloni. Consequently, among the commedia dell'arte's stock characters the representative Venetian (a stereotypically wealthy but miserly merchant) was called Pantalone, or Pantalon in French. In the mid-17th century the French came to identify him with one particular style of trousers, a style which became known as pantaloons in English. Pantaloons was later applied to another style that came into fashion in the late 18th century, tight-fitting garments that had begun to replace knee breeches. After that pantaloons was used to refer to trousers in general. The abbreviation of pantaloons to pants met with some resistance at first; it was considered vulgar and, as Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, "a word not made for gentlemen, but 'gents.'" First found in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe in 1840, pants has replaced the "gentleman's word" in English and has lost all obvious connection to Saint Pantaleon.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	panting - breathing heavily (as after exertion) heaving breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation - the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation
	2.	panting - any fabric used to make trousers     trousering cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"

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panting

adjective

1. out of breath, winded, gasping, puffed, puffing, breathless, puffed out, short of breath, out of puff, out of whack (informal) She collapsed, panting, at the top of the stairs.

2. eager, raring, anxious, impatient, champing at the bit (informal), all agog He came down here panting to be rescued from the whole ghastly mess.

Translations

panting [ˈpæntɪŋ] N → jadeo m