Pant vs Plan - What's the difference?
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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.
A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
* Wordsworth
To design (a building, machine, etc.).
To create a plan for.
To intend.
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To make a plan.
As nouns the difference between pant and plan
is that 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 while plan is a tablet (for writing and erasing).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.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
plan
English
Noun
(en noun)- The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.
- He didn't really have a plan ; he had a goal and a habit of control.
- Seen in plan , the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.
- The simple plan , / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.
Usage notes
* A plan ("set of intended actions") can be developed, executed, implemented, ignored, abandoned, scrapped, changed, etc.Synonyms
* (drawing of a building from above): floor planDerived terms
* battleplan * floor plan * business plan * development plan * marketing plan * masterplan * game plan * contingency plan * action plan * escalation plan * lesson plan * plan A * plan B * price plan * rate planVerb
(plann)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}