different between panting vs sigh
panting
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pænt??/
- Rhymes: -ænt??
Verb
panting
- present participle of pant
Noun
panting (plural pantings)
- The act of one who pants.
- 1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude
- Now here, now there, moved by the straggling wind, / Came ever and anon a breathlike sound, / Quick as the pantings of the faithful dog […]
- 1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude
Anagrams
- P'ing-t'an, Pingtan
Cebuano
Noun
panting
- palace; castle
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sigh
English
Etymology
From Middle English sihen, from Old English s?can. (The OE infinitive would have given ME forms with /t?/ or /k/, which are both attested, so the /h/ form is probably a back-formation from the preterite sihte.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophones: sie, sai, psi, xi, scye, Si, Sy, Cy
Verb
sigh (third-person singular simple present sighs, present participle sighing, simple past and past participle sighed)
- (intransitive) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.
- (intransitive) To lament; to grieve.
- He sighed deeply in his spirit.
- (intransitive, transitive) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
- 1695, Matthew Prior, An ode presented to the king, on His Majesty's arrival in Holland, after the Queen's death
- Ages to come, and men unborn, / Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate.
- 1695, Matthew Prior, An ode presented to the king, on His Majesty's arrival in Holland, after the Queen's death
- (intransitive) To experience an emotion associated with sighing.
- (intransitive) To make a sound like sighing.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- And the coming wind did roar more loud, / And the sails did sigh like sedge.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Death of the Old Year
- The winter winds are wearily sighing.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- (transitive) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
- (transitive) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
- 1763, John Hoole (translator), Jerusalem Delivered (by Torquato Tasso
- The gentle swain […] sighs back her grief.
- 1763, John Hoole (translator), Jerusalem Delivered (by Torquato Tasso
Synonyms
- (all): sithe (obsolete)
Translations
Noun
sigh (plural sighs)
- A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
- 1913, Eleanor Porter, Pollyanna, Chapter 7:
- To Pollyanna the air was all the more stifling after that cool breath of the out of doors; but she did not complain. She only drew a long quivering sigh.
- 1913, Eleanor Porter, Pollyanna, Chapter 7:
- Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.
Derived terms
- yawn-sigh
Translations
Interjection
sigh
- An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.
- Sigh, I'm so bored at work today.
Translations
Anagrams
- Gish, gish
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