panting

«panting» in Mova's school dictionary: breathing fast and loudly with your mouth open, usually… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb form (pant, pants, panted, panting); also adjective (a panting dog)

meaning for a pupil

1) Panting means breathing fast and loudly with your mouth open, usually after running or because you are hot. tree →

2) Wanting something very much (old, in "panting for"). tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories to show someone ran hard or is tired: "She arrived panting." In science: dogs pant to cool down because they cannot sweat much. In PE: after a race you may be panting.

examples

• The dog was panting after the long walk. tree →
• I was panting after running up the hill. tree →
• He ran in, panting, and shouted the news. tree →
• Dogs pant to cool themselves down. tree →
• The runners crossed the line, panting hard. tree →
• Give a panting dog water and shade. tree →
• She stopped, panting, at the top of the stairs. tree →
• Panting for breath, she entered their room, and flung herself down on the floor. tree →

note

"Panting" is the -ing form of "pant". Do not confuse with "pants" (in the UK underwear, in the USA trousers). Safety: a dog panting very heavily on a hot day may be too hot.

In the corpora

• Dogs hardly sweat, so they cool down by panting, which dries their wet tongue and mouth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «panting» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.