PANTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does panting mean? 

• PANTING (noun)
  The noun PANTING has 2 senses:

1. breathing heavily (as after exertion)

2. any fabric used to make trousers

  Familiarity information: PANTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Breathing heavily (as after exertion)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

heaving; panting

Hypernyms ("panting" is a kind of...):

breathing; external respiration; respiration; ventilation (the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation)

Derivation:

pant (breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted)

pant (utter while panting, as if out of breath)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any fabric used to make trousers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

panting; trousering

Hypernyms ("panting" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

She lay on the floor, panting and watching.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He lay partly on his side, panting for breath.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His half-minute had not enabled him to recover his breath, and his huge, hairy chest was rising and falling with a quick, loud panting like a spent hound.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She caught every syllable with panting eagerness; her hand, unknowingly to herself, closely pressed her sister's, and tears covered her cheeks.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“Too late, Watson, too late!” cried Holmes, as I ran panting to his side.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At such moments, panting with red lolling tongue and with eyes fixed upon the big bull, it appeared to Buck that a change was coming over the face of things.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Regaining my room, I threw myself panting upon the bed and tried to think....

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Her eyes were wide, color was in her pale cheeks, and before he finished it seemed to him that she was almost panting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Their rear ranks were already passing out of sight ere the new-comers were urging their panting, foaming horses up the slope which had been the scene of that long drawn and bloody fight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The next moment he had staggered back to his bed, exhausted and panting after his one tremendous outflame of energy.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)