different between boxer vs pant

English

Etymology

box +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?ks?/
• (US) enPR: bäks??r, IPA^(key): /?b??ks?/
• Rhymes: -?ks?(r)

Noun

boxer (plural boxers)

1. A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.

2. A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
3. A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
4. The person running a game of two-up.
5. One who packs boxes.
   • 1917, Vocational Education Survey of Minneapolis, Minn (page 385)

     They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]

6. A letterboxer.

Synonyms

• (participant in a boxing match): pugilist
• (type of engine): boxer engine

Derived terms

• boxer shorts, boxers
• kick-boxer, kickboxer

Related terms

• box
• boxing

Translations

See also

• wrestler
• Boxer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boxer (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rebox

Cebuano

Etymology

Named after its glove-like palps.

Noun

boxer

1. an unqualified spider in spider fighting, a male with glove-like palps, instead used as a feed

Czech

Noun

boxer m

1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)

Declension

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?k.s??/

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

1. boxer (dog)
2. boxer shorts, boxers
3. boxer (engine)

Etymology 2

English box +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?k.se/

Verb

boxer

1. to box (to fight against (a person) in a boxing match)

Conjugation

Related terms

• boxe
• boxeur

Further reading

• “boxer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

boxer m (invariable)

1. boxer shorts

Norman

Etymology

From English box +? -er.

Verb

boxer

1. (Jersey) to box

Portuguese

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

1. boxer (breed of dog)

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French boxeur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bok.ser/

Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxer?)

1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)

Declension

Synonyms

• pugilist

Related terms

• box
• boxa
• boxare

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri)

1. boxer (breed of dog)

Declension

References

• boxer in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of bóxer

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?nt, IPA^(key): /pænt/
• Rhymes: -ænt

Etymology 1

From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank.

Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasi? (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (phantasió?, “I am subject to hallucinations”), from ???????? (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).

Noun

pant (plural pants)

1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
2. (figuratively) Eager longing.
   • 1995, John C. Leggett, Suzanne Malm, The Eighteen Stages of Love (page 9)

     Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant.

3. (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.

Translations

References

• pant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pant”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Verb

pant (third-person singular simple present pants, present participle panting, simple past and past participle panted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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 pants for breath from out his cell.

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

     There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
2. (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
   • 1633, George Herbert, Love

     Then shall our hearts pant thee.

4. (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
5. (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
6. (intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
7. (intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

Synonyms

• (breathe quickly or in a labored manner): gasp
• (long for): crave, desire, long for, pine for
• (long eagerly): crave, desire, long, pine
• (of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence): palpitate, pound, throb

Translations

Etymology 2

From pants

Noun

pant (plural pants)

1. (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.

   Pant leg

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Unknown

Noun

pant (plural pants)

1. (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

References

• OED 2nd edition

Anagrams

• APTN, NAPT, NPTA

Czech

Noun

=Etymology

From German Band (“band, belt”)

pant m

1. hinge

Danish

Noun

pant

1. a deposit (on packaging such as bottles and cans)

Derived terms

• dåsepant, flaskepant

See also

• depositum (deposit on a rented home)

Middle English

Verb

pant

1. Alternative form of panten

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr

Noun

pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta or pantene)

1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
2. a mortgage
3. security (on a loan)
4. a forfeit (in a game)
5. a pledge

Related terms

• pantelån
• pantelåner
• pantsette

Noun

pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural panter, definite plural pantene)

1. a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)

References

• “pant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr

Noun

pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta)

1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
2. a mortgage
3. security (on a loan)
4. a forfeit (in a game)
5. a pledge

Related terms

• pantelån

Noun

pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural pantar, definite plural pantane)

1. a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)

References

• “pant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Band via Austrian German.

Noun

p?nt m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. hinge

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr

Noun

pant c

1. pledge, item deposited at a pawnshop or otherwise given as a security; money returned when a bottle or similar is recycled

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kwantyo- "flat hill", compare Pictish ???? (pant, “hollow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pant/

Noun

pant m (plural pantiau)

1. hollow, depression, small valley, dingle, dell

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