1, pronunciation: English [p? Nts], beauty [p? nts]
2. Meaning:
Pants and shorts (plural form of the noun pant)
Verb (abbreviation for verb) panting; Desire (the third person singular form of the verb pant)
3. Example:
He asked the tailor to alter his trousers.
He asked the tailor to turn his trousers upside down.
Discrimination of word meaning:
Pants, bloomers, jeans, pants:
These words can all mean "pants". Pantaloons is the abbreviation of pantaloons, which means men's underwear and women's underwear in British English and men's underwear in American English. Pants are the general term of "pants", regardless of gender, age and occupation, which refers to pants belonging to British English, and pants are mostly used in American English; Bloomers refer to knee-length loose shorts worn by European and American women in the second half of the19th century.
Once loved by cyclists, it is now only worn by female students in primary and secondary schools; Jeans refer to jeans, originally work pants, which can be worn by men, women and children in informal occasions.