Pants vs To - What's the difference?
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(fashion) English plurals
(UK, slang) rubbish; something worthless
To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants.
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* 1980 , William Hogan, The Quartzsite Trip , Atheneum, page 242:
* 1993 , Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories , page 174:
(British, slang) of inferior quality, rubbish.
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Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
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(nautical) Into the wind.
As nouns the difference between pants and to
is that pants is while to is thaw, weather conditions that make snow and ice melt.As a verb pants
is to pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants or pants can be (pant).As an adjective pants
is (british|slang) of inferior quality, rubbish.pants
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from .Noun
(en-plural noun)page 220:
- “But they cover the legs,” Joseph explained. “That is the only reason my people wear pants': to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns. In warm weather, or in open country, ' pants are unnecessary, uncomfortable, and foolish.”
page 427:
- Then he gave me a last desperate push and I tripped over the shorts caught around my ankles and fell down. I tried to pull my pants up with my boxing gloves but without success.In those days nobody wore underpants and I was bare-arsed and fancy free in front of everyone.
page 24:
- Look for pants' with reinforced seats and knees and full-length side zippers that make it possible to put the ' pants on while you are wearing boots, crampons, skis, or snowshoes.
page 12:
- I rolled up the legs of the pants , then I went back into the trees.
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- I decided to pass up her underclothes, not from feelings of delicacy, but because I couldn't see myself putting her pants on and snapping her brassière.
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- Big girls get candy for dry pants .
- As she bent over the intercom the little skirt went peek-a-boo and you could see white pants cupping her buttocks like a bra.
- You're talking pants !
- The film was a load (or pile) of pants .
Synonyms
* (outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards) breeks, britches, hosen, slacks, strides, trousers * (undergarment that covers the genitals and often neighbouring body parts) drawers, underpants, underwear *: (for men) boxers, boxer shorts, BVD's, ginch, gitch, gonch, gotch, jockeys, jockey shorts, shorts, skivvies, undershorts *: (for women) underpants, knickers, pantiesHyponyms
* (outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards) corduroys/cords, jeansDerived terms
* -pants * all mouth and pants, all mouth and no pants * beat the pants off * ), seat-of-the-pants * * hot pants/hotpants * kick in the pants * overpants * smarty pants * the pants off (with scare, bore, beat, etc.) * wear the pants *Verb
(es)- Keith Gerber has been pantsed twice already this summer by Lannie and Cling, and so his face is more resolved, the fear tempered by the fact that he understands these things to be inevitable.
- [T]he other boys, Stretch Latham and Rod Becker mainly, pantsed him, got his jockey shorts away and threw them onto Hubcap Willie’s roof.
- Richard did not stand too close to him, because he was always trying to pants him, and he would have died of shame if he did it tonight, because he knew his BVDs were dirty at the trap door.
Synonyms
* depants, de-pants, (British) kegAdjective
(en adjective)- Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine?
Etymology 2
From the verb (term) (from (etyl) panten and (hence) the noun (pant).)Verb
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Alternative forms
* (dialectal) ter * (contraction) t' * (abbreviation)Particle
(en-part)- I want to leave.
- He asked me what to do.
- I don’t know how to say it.
- I have places to''' go and people '''to see.
- To' err is human, ' to forgive divine.
- To be, or not to be: that is the question: /
- Odds are, BP to get new CEO this year
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- "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to , but it was closed."
- If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to .
Derived terms
* going to / gonna * got to / gotta * have to / hafta * ought to / oughta * supposed to / supposta * used to / usta * want to / wanna * fixing to / finnaPreposition
(English prepositions)- We are walking to the shop.
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
- He devoted himself to education.
- They drank to his health.
- That is something to do.
- His face was beaten to a pulp.
- similar to''' ...'', ''relevant '''to''' ...'', ''pertinent '''to''' ...'', ''I was nice '''to''' him'', ''he was cruel '''to''' her'', ''I am used '''to walking.
- one to one = 1:1
- ten to one = 10:1.
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- Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
- Three to the power of two is nine.
- Three to the second is nine.
- I gave the book to him.
- ten to''' ten'' = 9:50; ''We're going to leave at ten '''to (the hour).
- Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
See also
* atAdverb
(-)- Please push the door to .
- He went in his room, pushed the door to , without fastening the latch.