| 单词 | pant |
| 释义 | pant (once / 299 pages) 1vn 2n 3n When you breathe hard and fast, you pant. It's perfectly normal to pant after you finish running a marathon — or even after chasing your runaway dog through the neighborhood. You might pause at the top of a hill to pant and catch your breath before you continue on your hike. That loud, gasping breath itself is also a pant — but when this noun is plural, it means trousers, slacks, or jeans. Be careful, though — in parts of the UK, pants are primarily women's undergarments. Any pants you wear on you body come from pantaloons, which in the 1600s meant tights. WORD FAMILYpant: panted, panting, pants+/panting: pantings/pants: underpants USAGE EXAMPLESMaybe it’s the illustrations, simple black-and-white line drawings of slightly pudgy people in baggy T-shirts and pants doing really simple maneuvers. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Sort clothes by type, grouping pants together, then shirts or blouses, jackets or dresses. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) Choice period detail: A story about the boom in skiing attributes the sport’s popularity to innovations in “metal skis and stretch pants.” Time(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily Syn|Hyper gasp, heave, puff blow exhale hard 2v utter while panting, as if out of breath Hyper emit, let loose, let out, utter express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) 3n a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open 2Syn|Hyper gasp aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, inspiration, intake the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing n (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper trouser bell-bottoms, bellbottom pants, bellbottom trousers trousers with legs that flare; worn by sailors; absurdly wide hems were fashionable in the 1960s breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickerstrousers ending above the knee chinotrousers made with chino cloth churidarstight trousers worn by people from the Indian subcontinent (typically with a kameez or kurta) cords, corduroyscotton trousers made of corduroy cloth flannel, gabardine, tweed, white(usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth blue jean, denim, jean(usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear jodhpur breeches, jodhpurs, riding breechesflared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots long pants, long trouserstrousers reaching to the foot pajama, pyjamaa pair of loose trousers tied by a drawstring around the waist; worn by men and women in some Asian countries pantaloontrousers worn in former times pedal pusher, toreador pantssnug trousers ending at the calves; worn by women and girls salwar, shalwara pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez) short pants, shorts, trunkstrousers that end at or above the knee slacks(usually in the plural) pants for casual wear stretch pantstrousers made of a stretchy fabric sweat pants, sweatpantsloose-fitting trousers with elastic cuffs; worn by athletes trewstight-fitting trousers; usually of tartan Bermuda shorts, Jamaica shortsshort pants that end at the knee britchesinformal term for breeches buckskinsbreeches made of buckskin hot pantsskin-tight very short pants worn by young women as an outer garment lederhosenleather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria Levi's, levisa popular brand of jeans plus foursmen's baggy knickers hanging below the knees; formerly worn for sports (especially golf) trunk hosepuffed breeches of the 16th and 17th centuries usually worn over hose garment an article of clothing n the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine) Hyper noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) |
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