Kitchen vs Pant - What's the difference?
kitchen | pant |
A room or area for preparing food.
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(African American Vernacular English) The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.
Cuisine.
(music) The percussion section of an orchestra.
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(dated) A utensil for roasting meat.
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.
As a proper noun kitchen
is .As a noun pant is
a quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp or pant can be (fashion) a pair of pants (trousers or underpants) or pant can be a public drinking fountain in scotland and north-east england.As a verb pant is
(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.kitchen
English
(wikipedia kitchen) (Kitchens)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
- Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough.
- For obvious reasons the percussion is normally arranged along the back of the platform, whether centrally or to one side, and sometimes also in two tiers, the heavy, noisier instruments behind, and the pitched, agile instruments such as vibraphone, marimba, etc. in front. An outstanding exception, however, exists in Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamion where the composer expressly desired that the all-important kitchen department be spread out in front of the strings and hence nearest the audience.
- a tin kitchen
Usage notes
* (area for preparing food) A (term), (term), or the like, or one (term), is one suitable for use in prepared foods.Derived terms
* back kitchen * everything but the kitchen sink * * kitchendom * kitchenette * kitchening * kitchenless * kitchen paper * kitchenry * kitchen supper * kitchen towel * kitchen table software * kitchen utensil * kitchenwareAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordspant
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