Pent vs. Pant — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pent and Pant
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Definitions
Pent
A past tense and a past participle of pen2.
Pant
To breathe rapidly in short gasps, as after exertion.
Pent
Penned or shut up; closely confined.
Pant
To beat loudly or heavily; throb or pulsate.
Pent
Confinement; concealment.
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Pant
To give off loud puffs, especially while moving.
Pent
A pentatonic scale.
Pant
To long demonstratively; yearn
Was panting for a chance to play.
Pent
A pentacle or pentagram.
Pant
To utter hurriedly or breathlessly
I panted my congratulations to the winner of the race.
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Pent
Confined in, or as if in, a pen; imprisoned.
Pant
A short labored breath; a gasp.
Pent
(archaic) pen; penned
Pant
A throb; a pulsation.
Pent
Penned or shut up; confined; - often with up.
Here in the body pent.
No pent-up Utica contracts your powers.
Pant
A short loud puff, as of steam from an engine.
Pent
Closely confined
Pant
An outer garment that covers the body below the waist, usually to the ankles, and is divided into sections to fit each leg separately
She decided to wear pants instead of a skirt. He bought a new pair of pants.
Pant
Underpants.
Pant
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
Pant
(figurative) Eager longing.
Pant
(obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
Pant
(fashion) A pair of pants trousers or underpants.
Pant
(used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
Pant leg
Pant
Any public drinking fountain.
Pant
(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
(intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
Pant
To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
Pant
(intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
Pant
(intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
Pant
(intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
Pant
(intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
Pant
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.
Pluto plants for breath from out his cell.
Pant
To long eagerly; to desire earnestly; - often used with for or after.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
Who pants for glory finds but short repose.
Pant
To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; - said of the heart.
Pant
To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
The whispering breezePants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.
Pant
To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
There is a cavern where my spiritWas panted forth in anguish.
Pant
To long for; to be eager after.
Then shall our hearts pant thee.
Pant
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
Pant
A violent palpitation of the heart.
Pant
A single leg of a pair of pants. See pants.
Pant
Of or pertaining to pants.
Pant
The noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine)
Pant
A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open;
She gave a gasp and fainted
Pant
Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted;
The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily
Pant
Utter while panting, as if out of breath
