pant
part of speech
verb (pant, pants, panted, panting); noun (a pant, pants — a quick breath); adjective (pant, in «pant leg», US)
meaning for a pupil
1) To pant is to breathe fast and loudly with your mouth open, because you are hot, tired or excited. tree →
2) A pant is one quick, short breath. tree →
3) (old or literary) To pant for something is to want it very much. tree →
4) (US) «Pant» is used before another noun to mean trousers, as in «pant leg»; see also «pants». tree →
sense in the lessons
In science and PE it describes what happens after running: the body needs more oxygen, so you pant. Dogs pant to cool down because they cannot sweat much. In stories panting shows a character has been running or is scared. Phrases: «pant for breath», «huffing and panting», «panting dog».
examples
- After the race I was panting and red in the face. tree →
- The dog lay in the shade, panting with its tongue out. tree →
- Dogs pant to cool down on hot days. tree →
- She ran up the stairs and arrived panting. tree →
- We could hear the wolf panting outside the door. tree →
- In PE we counted our breaths while we panted after sprinting. tree →
- He rolled up his pant leg to show the scratch. tree →
- ‘Here it is,’ he panted, rather out of breath. tree →
note
Past: panted. Do not mix up with «pants»: in the UK pants are underwear; in the US and Canada pants are trousers. «Pant» as one breath is less common. A panting dog on a very hot day may need water and shade quickly.
In the corpora
- Dogs hardly sweat, so they cool down by panting, which dries their wet tongue and mouth.
- As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God.
- I opened wide my mouth, and panted; for I longed for Thy commandments.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.