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Definitions: Panting |
PantingAdjective1. Breathing laboriously or convulsively. Noun1. Breathing heavily (as after exertion). 2. Any fabric used to make trousers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "panting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | The pulsating in and out of the bow shell plates as the ship rises and plunges in the sea. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PantingSynonyms: blown (adj), gasping (adj), out of breath(p) (adj), pursy (adj), short-winded (adj), winded (adj), heaving (n), trousering (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Feeling | Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Panting |
| English words defined with "panting": Anhelation, Anhelose, Anhelous ♦ burbling, burbly ♦ downed ♦ effusive ♦ felled ♦ gasp, gushing ♦ heave ♦ pant, pant-hoot, puff. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "panting": Antaeos. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You could slooshy the screams and moans very realistic, and you could even get the heavy breathing and panting of the tolchocking malchicks at the same time. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) Those panting hypocrites who like your legs but talk about your garters. (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; writing credit: Robert Louis Stevenson; Samuel Hoffenstein) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Panting at the Opera (1988) | |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Baby panting and squealing. | | A dog panting. |
| Dog panting. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Only, as my tale went on, she drew a little short quick breath now and then, like a child panting with delight. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A moment afterwards, one of these men was under the other, exhausted, panting, struggling, with a knee of marble upon his breast. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He broke into a run and, running quicker and quicker, ran across the cinderpath and reached the third line playground, panting. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He stopped, panting, in front of Huston. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Panting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 85.55% of the time. "Panting" is used about 256 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 85.55% | 219 | 20,419 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.64% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.52% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (common) | 0.39% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 256 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dog panting | 19 |
panting | 18 |
dog excessive panting | 10 |
dog excessive in panting | 6 |
custom panting | 6 |
dog in panting | 6 |
excessive panting | 5 |
cat panting | 5 |
dog heavy in panting | 4 |
dog heavy panting | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "panting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gulçues (gasping, puffy), gulçim (crepitation, gasp, hard breathing, howl, pant, puff, wheeze). (various references) | |
Chinese | "喘 (Asthmatic, Breathlessness, Pant, Panted). (various references) | |
Danish | panting. (various references) | |
Dutch | werken (act, be effective, ferment, function, have effect, operate, run, to work, twisting, vary, work, works), hijgen. (various references) | |
French | palpitation (palpitation, pant), vibration, trépidation, halètement, essoufflement, effet de soufflet. (various references) | |
German | keuchend (gasping, rasping, wheezing, wheezy). (various references) | |
Greek | παραμορφωτικές ταλαντώσεις. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ערי'" (hankering, longing, yearning), ער'" (longing, yearning, yen), "ת שמות (breathing with difficulty). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zihálás (gasp, gasping, roaring, wheeze, wheezing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terengah-engah (pant, puffing, wheez, winded), gempul-gempul (out of breath), engap (puffing, tight in the chest), engahan (puffing). (various references) | |
Italian | palpitazione (palpitation, throbbing). (various references) | |
Korean | 헐덕거림. (various references) | |
Manx | pandooghey (pant). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antingpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | palpitação da chapa, calcinhas (knickers, underpants). (various references) | |
Romanian | prefãcut (affected, assumed, cattish, false, falsified, forged, guileful, histrionic, hollow-hearted, hypocritical, insidious, mock, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pretender, seeming, sham, squeamish, treacherous), gâfâitor. (various references) | |
Scottish | aonach (a heath, a steep, moor), inich. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zadihan (breathless, windless). (various references) | |
Spanish | pulsación (angular frequency, angular velocity, beat, beating, impulse, pulsation, pulse, radian frequency, throb, throbbing, touch), machetazo, jadeo (pant, wheeze), jadeante (blown, breathless, broken-winded, wheezy), anhelación (eagerness). (various references) | |
Turkish | soluma (aspiration, breathing), nefes nefese (breathless, breathlessly, out of breath, with bated breath). (various references) | |
Ukranian | вібрація у носовій частині корпусу, задиханий (blown, breathless), пристрасно бажаючий. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Panting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anting, banteng, Bantung, nantong, pacting, pactting, Paktong, Pandang, paning, Pantano, panti, pantina, pantine, pantings, Pantino, Pantins, Pantling, Patong, pauting, penang, penting, pinting, Pranting, puntine, qangtang. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "panting" (pronounced pa"nting) |
| 5 | -a" n t i ng | chanting, decanting, enchanting, granting, implanting, planting, ranting, recanting, replanting, slanting, supplanting, transplanting. |
| 4 | -n t i ng | accenting, accounting, amounting, appointing, augmenting, blunting, bunting, cementing, circumventing, commenting, complementing, complimenting, confronting, consenting, counting, daunting, denting, disappointing, discounting, disorienting, dissenting, documenting, experimenting, fainting, fermenting, fingerprinting, flaunting, fomenting, fragmenting, fronting, glinting, grunting, haunting, hinting, hunting, implementing, imprinting, inventing, lamenting, minting, misrepresenting, mounting, painting, parenting, patenting, pinpointing, pointing, presenting, preventing, printing, recounting, reinventing, relenting, renting, repainting, representing, reprinting, resenting, shunting, sprinting, squinting, supplementing, surmounting, tainting, taunting, tenting, tormenting, unrelenting, unstinting, venting, wanting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, annotating, anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, completing, complicating, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, congratulating, connecting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, firefighting, fitting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fretting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, gloating, graduating, grafting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implicating, importing, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, parachuting, participating, parting, pasting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pirating, pitting, placating, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, repeating, replicating, reporting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supporting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, targeting, tasting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unremitting, unseating, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: anting, pinang, taping. | |
-2 letters: aping, giant, inapt, paint, patin, pinna, pinta. | |
-3 letters: agin, anti, gain, gait, gnat, nipa, pain, pang, pant, pian, pina, ping, pint, pita, tain, tang, ting. | |
-4 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, apt, gan, gap, gat, gin, gip, git, inn, nag, nan, nap, nip, nit, pan, pat, pia, pig, pin, pit, tag, tan, tap, tin, tip. | |
-5 letters: ag, ai, an, at, in, it, na, pa, pi, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: painting, patining, planting, poignant. | |
+2 letters: paintings, parenting, patenting, phonating, plantings, pronating, tamponing. | |
+3 letters: appointing, bepainting, captaining, captioning, catnapping, depainting, entrapping, explanting, impainting, implanting, impregnant, paginating, pagination, pangenetic, parentings, partnering, patinating, patinizing, patterning, pertaining, petnapping, platooning, poignantly, repainting, replanting, supinating, trapanning, trepanning, unplaiting, upstanding. | |
+4 letters: antidumping, bankrupting, displanting, enrapturing, hyphenating, impregnants, inculpating, mispainting, misplanting, outpainting, outplanning, outspanning, paginations, painstaking, pantomiming, pathfinding, patronising, patronizing, patternings, penetrating, perennating, personating, phantasying, platinizing, pollinating, postlanding, postweaning, preenacting, preplanting, pretraining, printmaking, protonating, punctuating, supplanting, syncopating, transpiring, transposing, trapnesting, unstrapping. | |
+5 letters: anticipating, antipoaching, antispending, appertaining, apportioning, apprenticing, carpentering, cocaptaining, compensating, constipating, copartnering, emancipating, gonadotropin, impregnating, impregnation, inspissating, interlapping, interplaying, interspacing, manipulating, nonoperating, overplanting, painstakings, palingenetic, partitioning, pathfindings, pigmentation, potentiating, premalignant, printmakings, prolongation, rataplanning, reappointing, reimplanting, repatterning, sandpainting, snapshotting, straphanging, trampolining, transhipping, transporting, transshaping, unappetizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6E 74 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -. - .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a n t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006E 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50678086758073 |
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