What's the difference between pane and pant?

Pane


Definition:

  • (n.) The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.
  • (n.) A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.
  • (n.) One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
  • (n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.
  • (n.) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash.
  • (n.) In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
  • (n.) One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
  • (n.) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The shops on Main Street were mostly empty, paint fraying on the window panes.
  • (2) As the verdicts were read, the defendants shouted but their words could not be heard because of the thick panes of glass installed after a defiant Morsi declared himself the rightful president during earlier sessions.
  • (3) Did you know ChuckleVision is northern – cue archive footage of two men who resemble open-prison inmates moving a pane of invisible glass.
  • (4) Feel my pane After five years avoiding long-haul flights, I was amazed by the transformation of the aeroplane in my absence.
  • (5) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
  • (6) Beautiful, but leaky, single panes squandered the heat rising from the registers immediately below them.
  • (7) You still get to enjoy the delights of 21st century Stockholm though: the hotel is in the trendy Södermalm neighbourhood, close to some of the city’s most popular bars and restaurants, including the burger joint Marie Laveau , the Folkbaren bar (right next to people’s opera house Folkoperan ) and the locals’ all-time favourite, Italian restaurant Pane Vino .
  • (8) You can tuck into pane con la milza , a fried beef spleen sandwich from Sicily, at places such as Sole di Sicilia ( Via Livorno 6 ).
  • (9) It's the same recipe: video clips, editing area, preview pane.
  • (10) These windows no longer have blinds, and I pressed a little button to turn the pane from opaque to clear to admire the snow-capped peaks of Afghanistan.
  • (11) In other streets it would be fancy panes of stained glass in new front doors of white aluminium or freshly-stained wood, or the double-glazing van arriving.
  • (12) What should the novel do: be a mirror to the reader's world, reflecting it back at her, or be a clear pane of glass, not reflecting but offering something away from the self, a vista of a bigger, wider, different world outside?
  • (13) On the other side of the thick pane of bulletproof glass is Radovan Karadzic , leader of the Bosnian Serbs during the worst slaughter to blight Europe since the Third Reich, thereafter the world's most wanted fugitive – and now on trial in The Hague.
  • (14) For the most part he seemed dazed, still recovering from the tranquiliser dart, but occasionally he would slant a glance over his shoulder at those eagerly snapping his photograph only metres – and a thick pane of glass – away.
  • (15) The phone now consists of panes of content, stacked vertically, that can come to the top and into view.
  • (16) Panes of glass were missing from some sleeping areas, while in a dining hall some windows were still cracked.
  • (17) When the colonies gained independence 50 years ago, the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union) declared the borders immutable – because the alternative would look like a smashed window pane of thousands of warring states .
  • (18) The 57-story Vdara hotel in Las Vegas, a trio of curving glass towers, was the pride of its owners, a gleaming citadel of 1,500 rooms, clad in 3,000 "double-pane acid-etched spandrel glass panels for energy-efficient heating and cooling".
  • (19) "That kind of stayed with me: the notion that good writing is like a window pane on the world.
  • (20) "I have a brother with me everywhere I go – never any others in the venue so I might as well increase the numbers a bit," he says, wryness seeping off the text pane.

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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