panting [
pænt]
[医] 气促, 呼吸困难
panting[ noun ]- breathing heavily (as after exertion)
<noun.act>
- any fabric used to make trousers
<noun.artifact>
Pant \Pant\ (p[.a]nt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Panted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Panting}.] [Cf. F. panteler to gasp for breath, OF.
panteisier to be breathless, F. pantois out of breath; perh.
akin to E. phantom, the verb prob. orig. meaning, to have the
nightmare.]
1. 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. --Dryden.
2. Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly; -- often used
with for or after.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks. --Ps.
xlii. 1.
Who pants for glory finds but short repose. --Pope.
3. To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate,
or throb; -- said of the heart. --Spenser.
4. To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [Poetic]
The whispering breeze
Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.
--Pope.
panting \panting\ adj.
Breathing laboriously or convulsively.
Syn: gasping, out-of-breath(predicate), pursy, short-winded,
winded.
[WordNet 1.5]
panting \panting\ n.
The act or process of breathing heavily, usually after
exertion.
Syn: heaving.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. Any fabric used to make trousers.
Syn: trousering.
[WordNet 1.5]
- Where it once had to answer only to the timber industry, the service now has a crowd of watchdogs panting over its shoulder.
- It was cool, but Lucky's fur was wet and she was panting.
- As we ambled through the stark landscape, the only sounds came from the creak of the leather saddle and the camel farting and panting.
- If they see me straggling off for a game or returning sweaty from a run or panting through situps, that'll say more about Pops's priorities than hours of preaching a gospel of fitness.
- Nevertheless, Ingles said he instructed Abadilla to obtain those guarantees from the Chinese foreign ministry "but up to now, he has not informed us if these guarantees are forthcoming." In a few moments, a panting Abadilla was on the phone.
- As we crested the top of the stairs panting under our load of luggage, we were sighted by a boat official, who started rearranging the passengers on the deck.
- The Dolphins are playing the Redskins, the Celtics are trouncing the Sixers, and as herds of panting horses gallop furiously toward their finish lines, the voices of the separate track announcers unite in a crescendo of gobbledygook.
- Mr. Krueger says he has no plausible scientific explanation and was puzzled by the correlation, but he adds that "my mother, who was a teacher, wasn't surprised at all." Few if any of these panting customers have ever tasted the wine they're buying.