| dialect |
| 1. n. (linguistics) A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community or social group, often differing from other varieties of the same language in minor ways as regards vocabul | |
| 2. n. (pejorative) Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong. | |
| 3. n. A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is conside | |
| 4. n. (computing, programming) A variant of a non-standardized programming language. | |
| Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC. | |
| 5. n. (ornithology) A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population. | |
| pants |
| 1. n. (plural only, chiefly North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Ireland, Cumbria, Lancashire, Liverpool, Manchester) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, c | |
| 2. n. (plural only, chiefly UK) An undergarment that covers the genitals and often the buttocks and the neighbouring parts of the body; underpants. | |
| 3. n. (slang) Rubbish; something worthless. | |
| You're talking pants! | |
| The film was a load or pile of pants. | |
| 4. adj. (UK, slang) Of inferior quality, rubbish. | |
| Your mobile is pants — why don’t you get one like mine? | |
| 5. v. To pull someone’s pants down; to forcibly remove someone’s pants. | |
| 6. n. plural of pant | |
| 7. v. third-person singular present indicative of pant | |
| pant |
| 1. n. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. | |
| 2. n. (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart. | |
| 3. v. 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. | |
| 4. v. (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something). | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish. | |
| 8. n. (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants). | |
| 9. n. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants. | |
| Pant leg | |
| 10. n. a public drinking fountain in Scotland and North-East England | |
| trousers |
| 1. n. An article of clothing that covers the part of the body between the waist and the ankles or knees, and is divided into a separate part for each leg. | |
| The trousers need to be shortened. | |
| Why can women wear trousers when men can't wear skirts? | |
