What's the difference between pan and pant?

Pan


Definition:

  • (n.) A part; a portion.
  • (n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
  • (n.) A leaf of gold or silver.
  • (v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite.
  • (n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
  • (n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.
  • (n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.
  • (n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
  • (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
  • (n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
  • (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
  • (n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
  • (n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
  • (v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
  • (v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
  • (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
  • (2) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
  • (3) But I feel I'm being true to myself in the way my career has panned out and I'm making the correct decision here.
  • (4) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
  • (5) Effects of anti-human pan-T-specific monoclonal antibodies of the Second International Workshop on Human Leucocyte Differentiation Antigens were investigated in a number of lymphocyte functional tests.
  • (6) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
  • (7) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
  • (8) After Tuesday’s launch Pan told Xinhua the mission marked “a transition in China’s role ... from a follower in classic information technology (IT) development to one of the leaders guiding future IT achievements”.
  • (9) On days 70 and 94, both blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine (sCR) values in the vehicle-treated rats were significantly higher than those in normal rats (without treatment with PAN and PS).
  • (10) The buccal mucosa was the most common site of occurrence; 98.3% of these individuals had oral habits, with smoking alone or smoking in combination with "pan" or "supari" chewing accounting for 74.9% of the habit forms.
  • (11) Pour into a pan and reheat, diluting slightly if you prefer a thinner soup.
  • (12) 3 For the dough: melt the lard with 100ml water in a small pan and leave to cool slightly.
  • (13) These are pan-European issues requiring pan-European responses.
  • (14) These data were the empirical basis for a clinical definition of AIDS in adults drafted in a Caracas, Venezuela, workshop sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization.
  • (15) Lipoproteins isolated by 'Pan B' antibody were comparable in size and shape to the lipoproteins in native plasma and to the lipoproteins isolated by polyclonal antibodies or ultracentrifugation.
  • (16) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
  • (17) To find out if any stone tips were being used on spears any earlier than that, Wilkins examined sharp stones found at a site called Kathu Pan, in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
  • (18) A patient at the Wallington Family Practice in Surrey wrote: "Getting an appointment is like trying to pan for gold.
  • (19) In the normal bone marrow enriched by panning for CFU-E (8%) and depleted in progenitors of other lineages, blast cells showing characteristics similar to leukemic erythroid blasts were seen.
  • (20) Many other autoimmune diseases and autoantibodies were found in other family members not corresponding to HLA phenotypes, suggesting other non-HLA-linked genetic influences may be operative in predisposition to PAN.

Pant


Definition:

  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  • (v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.
  • (v. i.) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
  • (v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
  • (v. t.) To long for; to be eager after.
  • (n.) A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
  • (n.) A violent palpitation of the heart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Mat yoga pant by lulelemon.
  • (2) If the pants did become available in clinics, Dukelow said costs might be around a few hundred dollars (around £125) for the basic equipment plus a few tens of dollars per month for the disposable electrodes.
  • (3) In addition, we have also validated the use of Vtgpant at a low panting frequency in these subjects.
  • (4) When water was offered more than 15 min after the end of a period of heating, after panting had ceased, drinking occurred only if the water loss exceeded 50-70 g, about 0-6% of the body water.
  • (5) Amphibolurus muricatus, a species restricted to the more mesic regions of Australia, does not show any change of panting threshold with progressive dehydration.
  • (6) Pant had to buy extra hard drives to serve as backup copies of the top-secret files.
  • (7) The anti-ball crushing pants, or ABC pants, for short, have been all the rage since they were introduced at the end of last year, Lululemon says.
  • (8) To dilate any pulmonary arteriovenous anastomoses, the birds were warmed to induce panting, killed with chloroform, or injected intravenously with papavarine.
  • (9) Studies in respiratory physiology and acid-base balance of panting birds exposed to high Tas show that flying as well as nonflying birds can use the respiratory system simultaneously for gas exchange and evaporative cooling.
  • (10) We suggest that specializations of the soft palate and epiglottis in dogs for thermal panting appear to restrict the formation of an adequate oropharyngeal seal during feeding.
  • (11) His children will get used to a father who wears pants, without a dagger, and who does not pick out their nits in public.
  • (12) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
  • (13) I imagined him sitting in the car panting at my shoulder all the way and then yipping with excitement when we pulled into the layby.
  • (14) Intraperitoneal injections of a dopamine antagonist, haloperidol, induced a marked hypothermia, due to a downward shift of the threshold central temperature for induction of cold thermogenesis, panting and vasodilation.
  • (15) Sally sent us off on the Tiny Tim Trail, a sloping, twisting, turning snowshoe path that had me panting and out of breath in less than five minutes.
  • (16) She beats Sanders and Kasich and crushes Cruz and Trump, who has the biggest “ pants on fire ” rating and has told whoppers about basic economics that are embarrassing for anyone aiming to be president.
  • (17) hour)(-1) as air temperature was increased from 10 degrees to 50 degrees C. Evaporation of the fluid from the paired glands could account for between 19 and 36 percent of the increase in respiratory evaporation associated with thermal panting.
  • (18) blocked panting and attenuated the decrease in Tb caused by i.c.v.
  • (19) During exercise, panting usually occurred in short regular bursts of about 10 sec duration, whereas during both mild and severe heat stress it occurred in bursts of irregular but usually longer duration.
  • (20) What a different kind of party it would be if the GOP could expand the not-caring-about-pants sphere beyond Mark Sanford!

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