Q vs Pant - What's the difference?
q | pant |
The seventeenth letter of the .
voiceless uvular plosive.
electrical charge
heat
Image:Latin Q.png, Capital and lowercase versions of Q , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter Q.png, Uppercase and lowercase Q in Fraktur
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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.
As a letter q
is the seventeenth letter of the.As a symbol q
is (label) iupac 1-letter abbreviation for glutamine.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.q
Translingual
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See also
(Latn-script) * (koppa)Symbol
(Voiceless uvular plosive) (head)Synonyms
* (electrical charge) Q * (heat) QSee also
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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