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Definition of ant in English: antnoun antænt A small insect typically having a sting and living in a complex social colony with one or more breeding queens. It is wingless except for fertile adults, which form large mating swarms, and is proverbial for its industriousness. 蚂蚁 Family Formicidae, order Hymenoptera: several subfamilies Example sentencesExamples - He had tried to get out of the house, but there were ants swarming all over the door.
- Today this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants.
- To scientists, that's as bizarre a finding as a queen bee spawning a colony of ants.
- Then we discovered tool-using animals, chimpanzees using sticks to dig ants out of anthills.
- Two or three black ants would surround an enemy ant and bite it to death.
- The ants consume the honeydew as food, thus sustaining the life of both insects.
- I got home yesterday evening to find the kitchen absolutely swarming with ants.
- Anteaters have long snouts which they thrust into ant-heaps in order to devour the ants or termites.
- The ants were the most prolific of the insects we were likely to encounter daily.
- Over at Peter's there has been talk of flying ants and mozzies that seem to be attacking us in their thousands this year.
- He has red hair, shouts incessantly and moves as though a colony of ants has invaded his tracksuit trousers.
- From schools of fish to a swarm of ants, animals exhibit extraordinary collective behaviour.
- Farmers have traditionally used sugary solutions to attract red ants to feed on insect larvae.
- Outside were long lines of ants and other small insects hanging around and seemingly without very much to do.
- At this point the leading ants panic and backtrack to the safety of the swarm.
- You had to go barefoot in the temple, and with food offerings on the floor the place was swarming with ants.
- Bees belong to the third largest insect order which also includes wasps and ants.
- Alternatively, an insecticide can be used that will simply kill the ants.
- Some will give a colony of ants an extra push to bring sugar and food to it's families.
- The next time either of those two ants meet any other ant, the information they pass on will be different.
Phrasesinformal Be fidgety or restless. 〈非正式〉坐立不安 what's the matter with you, always fidgeting—you got ants in your pants? Example sentencesExamples - I have so much energy that the little kids I baby-sit told me it looks like I have ants in my pants.
- Maybe it's just God trying to tell me to keep still and stop acting like I have ants in my pants, to just be calm and happy that all is well.
- Anyway, I can't sit still - I've always had ants in my pants, and I can't see me sitting in the dressing room for four or five weeks.
- He appeared to have ants in his pants, refusing to stand still for a minute.
- I tossed and turned, and finally Shirley said something like I had ants in my pants, something like that, anyway, and decided to walk the house to try and fall asleep.
Synonyms move restlessly, wriggle, squirm, twitch, jiggle, writhe, twist, shuffle, be jittery, be anxious, be agitated
informal An outstandingly good person or thing. we had a great party that night thinking we were the ant's pants Example sentencesExamples - The plush hotel had a pool and spa that were simply the ant's pants.
- Although my bike still wasn't as professional as most of the other guys', I thought it was the ant's pants.
- After a careful read of this book, I came to the conclusion that her volume is the ant's pants of how-to books in the video field.
- She thinks she's the ant's pants because her husband drives a Porsche.
- The new storage spaces are the ant's pants.
- I've already lined up some of the unemployed fishermen to man the boats and they think I'm the ant's pants.
- That Queensland treacle is the ant's pants!
- Here is a car that is supposed to be the ant's pants.
- I had always thought a quantum computer would be the ant's pants.
- I thought he was the ant's pants.
OriginOld English ǣmete of West Germanic origin; related to German Ameise. Compare with emmet. The dialect word emmet for an ant, used since the 1970s as a Cornish term for a tourist, is like ant, from Old English ǣmete. Antsy, dating from the mid 19th century, is probably from the phrase have ants in one's pants; it means ‘agitated’, ‘restless’.
RhymesBrabant, Brandt, brant, cant, enceinte, extant, gallant, Kant, levant, pant, pointe, pointes, rant, scant Definition of ant in US English: antnounæntant A small insect, often with a sting, that usually lives in a complex social colony with one or more breeding queens. It is wingless except for fertile adults, which often form large mating swarms, and is proverbial for industriousness. 蚂蚁 Family Formicidae, order Hymenoptera: several subfamilies Example sentencesExamples - I got home yesterday evening to find the kitchen absolutely swarming with ants.
- Alternatively, an insecticide can be used that will simply kill the ants.
- At this point the leading ants panic and backtrack to the safety of the swarm.
- Today this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants.
- Some will give a colony of ants an extra push to bring sugar and food to it's families.
- You had to go barefoot in the temple, and with food offerings on the floor the place was swarming with ants.
- Outside were long lines of ants and other small insects hanging around and seemingly without very much to do.
- The ants were the most prolific of the insects we were likely to encounter daily.
- Then we discovered tool-using animals, chimpanzees using sticks to dig ants out of anthills.
- He has red hair, shouts incessantly and moves as though a colony of ants has invaded his tracksuit trousers.
- The next time either of those two ants meet any other ant, the information they pass on will be different.
- To scientists, that's as bizarre a finding as a queen bee spawning a colony of ants.
- He had tried to get out of the house, but there were ants swarming all over the door.
- Over at Peter's there has been talk of flying ants and mozzies that seem to be attacking us in their thousands this year.
- Anteaters have long snouts which they thrust into ant-heaps in order to devour the ants or termites.
- Bees belong to the third largest insect order which also includes wasps and ants.
- From schools of fish to a swarm of ants, animals exhibit extraordinary collective behaviour.
- Two or three black ants would surround an enemy ant and bite it to death.
- Farmers have traditionally used sugary solutions to attract red ants to feed on insect larvae.
- The ants consume the honeydew as food, thus sustaining the life of both insects.
Phrasesinformal Be fidgety or restless. 〈非正式〉坐立不安 Example sentencesExamples - Anyway, I can't sit still - I've always had ants in my pants, and I can't see me sitting in the dressing room for four or five weeks.
- He appeared to have ants in his pants, refusing to stand still for a minute.
- Maybe it's just God trying to tell me to keep still and stop acting like I have ants in my pants, to just be calm and happy that all is well.
- I tossed and turned, and finally Shirley said something like I had ants in my pants, something like that, anyway, and decided to walk the house to try and fall asleep.
- I have so much energy that the little kids I baby-sit told me it looks like I have ants in my pants.
Synonyms move restlessly, wriggle, squirm, twitch, jiggle, writhe, twist, shuffle, be jittery, be anxious, be agitated
OriginOld English ǣmete of West Germanic origin; related to German Ameise. Compare with emmet. |