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PANTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Breathing heavily (as after exertion)
Synonyms:
heaving; panting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("panting" is a kind of...):
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)
Derivation:
pant (breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted)
pant (utter while panting, as if out of breath)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any fabric used to make trousers
Synonyms:
panting; trousering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("panting" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb pant
Context examples:
After he had travelled a little way, he spied a dog lying by the roadside and panting as if he were tired.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
And then suddenly, with a crashing and a rending, a thudding of giant feet and a panting of monster lungs the beast was upon me once more.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:—"Day its fervid fires had wasted," and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Jo heard Amy panting after her run, stamping her feet and blowing on her fingers as she tried to put her skates on, but Jo never turned and went slowly zigzagging down the river, taking a bitter, unhappy sort of satisfaction in her sister's troubles.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
With one hand I caught the jib-boom, while my foot was lodged between the stay and the brace; and as I still clung there panting, a dull blow told me that the schooner had charged down upon and struck the coracle and that I was left without retreat on the HISPANIOLA.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Jane, who was not so light nor so much in the habit of running as Elizabeth, soon lagged behind, while her sister, panting for breath, came up with him, and eagerly cried out: Oh, papa, what news—what news?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
As she now stood panting, looking at her with the utmost detestation that she was capable of expressing, and trembling from head to foot with rage and scorn, I thought I had never seen such a sight, and never could see such another.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You can imagine with what eagerness I listened to him, Watson, for the very chance for which I had been panting during all those months of inaction seemed to have come within my reach.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This threat was so palpably disregarded, that though within five minutes afterwards the three boys all burst into the room together and sat down, Fanny could not consider it as a proof of anything more than their being for the time thoroughly fagged, which their hot faces and panting breaths seemed to prove, especially as they were still kicking each other's shins, and hallooing out at sudden starts immediately under their father's eye.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He came in among them, panting, covered with dust.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
