Gasp vs Pant - What's the difference?
gasp | pant |
A short, sudden intake of breath.
(British, slang): A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).
To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
To breathe laboriously or convulsively.
* Lloyd
To speak in a breathless manner.
To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
* Spenser
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
(obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
(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.
* Dryden
* Shelley
To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
* Herbert
To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
* Bible, Psalms xlii. 1
* Alexander Pope
Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
* Alexander Pope
(fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
(used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
Pant is a synonym of gasp.
In intransitive terms the difference between gasp and pant
is that gasp is to breathe laboriously or convulsively while pant is to sigh; to flutter; to languish.In transitive terms the difference between gasp and pant
is that gasp is to speak in a breathless manner while pant is to long for (something); to be eager for (something).As an interjection gasp
is The sound of a gasp.gasp
English
Noun
(en noun)- The audience gave a gasp of astonishment
- I'm popping out for a gasp .
Verb
(en verb)- The audience gasped as the magician disappeared.
- We were all gasping when we reached the summit.
- She gasps and struggles hard for life.
- The old man gasped his last few words.
- I'm gasping for a cup of tea.
- Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.
References
Anagrams
* *pant
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), whence also English dialectal (m). Possibly from (etyl) (m), a byform or of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
References
* *Verb
- Pluto plants for breath from out his cell.
- There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
- Then shall our hearts pant thee.
- As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
- Who pants for glory finds but short repose.
- (Spenser)
- The whispering breeze / Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.
Synonyms
* (breathe quickly or in a labored manner) gasp * (long for) crave, desire, long for, pine for * (long eagerly) crave, desire, long, pine * palpitate, pound, throbEtymology 2
From pantsNoun
(en noun)- Pant leg
Derived terms
* pant cuff * pant leg * pantsuit, pant suit * panty, pantiesEtymology 3
UnknownReferences
*PMSA pagewith several examples * OED 2nd edition