Pant vs. Pint
Pantnoun
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
Pintnoun
A unit of volume, equivalent to:
Pantnoun
(obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
Pintnoun
⅛ of a gallon
Pantnoun
(fashion) A pair of pants trousers or underpants.
Pintnoun
approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint)
Pantnoun
(used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
‘Pant leg’;
Pintnoun
(United States) approximately
Pantnoun
a public drinking fountain in Scotland and North-East England
Pintnoun
(Hungary) 1.696 liters
Pantverb
(ambitransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
Pintnoun
(medicine) 12 ounces
Pantverb
(intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
Pintnoun
A pint of milk.
‘Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.’;
Pantverb
To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
Pintnoun
(metonym) A glass of beer, served by the pint.
Pantverb
(intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
Pintnoun
A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, - used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart.
Pantverb
(intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
Pintnoun
The laughing gull.
Pantverb
(intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
Pintnoun
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters
Pantverb
(intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
Pintnoun
a United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches
Pantverb
To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
‘Pluto plants for breath from out his cell.’;
Pintnoun
a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart
Pantverb
To long eagerly; to desire earnestly; - often used with for or after.
‘As the hart panteth after the water brooks.’; ‘Who pants for glory finds but short repose.’;
Pintnoun
a unit of liquid or dry capacity equal to one eighth of a gallon, in Britain equal to 0.568 litre and in the US equal to 0.473 litre (for liquid measure) or 0.551 litre (for dry measure).
Pantverb
To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; - said of the heart.
Pintnoun
a pint of beer
‘we'll probably go for a pint on the way home’;
Pantverb
To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
‘The whispering breezePants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.’;
Pintnoun
a pint of milk
‘two pints today, please’;
Pantverb
To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
‘There is a cavern where my spiritWas panted forth in anguish.’;
Pintnoun
a measure of shellfish, the amount containable in a pint mug.
Pantverb
To long for; to be eager after.
‘Then shall our hearts pant thee.’;
Pint
The pint (, listen ; symbol pt, sometimes abbreviated as p) is a unit of volume or capacity in both the imperial and United States customary measurement systems. In both of those systems it is traditionally one eighth of a gallon.
Pantnoun
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
Pantnoun
A violent palpitation of the heart.
Pantnoun
A single leg of a pair of pants. See pants.
Pantadjective
Of or pertaining to pants.
Pantnoun
the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine)
Pantnoun
a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open;
‘she gave a gasp and fainted’;
Pantverb
breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted;
‘The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily’;
Pantverb
utter while panting, as if out of breath
