2020-11-23
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด P – pants & trousers & shorts
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง pants = ‘PANTS’
ออกเสียง Trousers (British for shorts)) = ‘TROU-zerz’
ออกเสียง Shorts (US for trousers) = ‘shawrt’
Farlex Trivia Dictionary.
Trousers =
- fob - A small pocket close to the waistband of trousers.
- galluses - Another name for suspenders for trousers.
- plus fours - Got their name (c. 1920) from the fact that such trousers were made four inches longer than standard knickerbockers or shorts, which came to just above the knee.
- trousers, trouse - The singular of trousers is trouse.
Collins COBUILD English Usag
trousers
Trousers are a piece of clothing that covers your body from the waist downwards, and covers each leg separately.
Trousers is a plural noun. You use a plural form of a verb with it.
His trousers were covered in mud.
Don't talk about 'a trousers'.
You say some trousers or a pair of trousers.
It's time I bought myself some new trousers.
Umar was dressed in a pair of black trousers.
You usually use a singular form of a verb with a pair of trousers.
There was a pair of trousers in his carrier-bag.
The form trouser is often used in front of another noun.
The waiter took a handkerchief from his trouser pocket.
Hamo was rolling up his trouser leg.
In American English,
more common words for this item of clothing
are pants or slacks.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
Usage Note:
You can refer to a single garment either as "pants" or as "a pair of pants." The sameholds true not only for other similar garments
such as shorts or trousers,
but also for other single items that consist of two connected parts,
such as glasses or scissors.
With pants, the "pair" alludes tothe fact that
there are two openings for the legs.
The use of the singular pant is largely confined to the fields of design, textiles, and fashion:
The stylist recommended that the model wear a pant with a checkered print.
Pant is also commonly used as the attributive form: pant leg, pant cuff, pant pocket.
Collins COBUILD English Usage
Pants – shorts
In British English,
pants are a piece of clothing worn by men, women, or children under their other clothes.
Pants have two holes to put your legs through and elastic round the waist or hips to keep them up.
Men's pants are sometimes referred to as underpants.
Women's pants are sometimes referred to as panties or knickers.
In American English, a piece of clothing like this for men is usually referred to as shorts or underpants.
For women, they are usually called panties.
In American English,
the word pants is used to refer to men's or women's trousers.
He wore brown corduroy pants and a white cotton shirt.
In both British and American English,
shorts are also trousers with very short legs
that people wear in hot weather or for taking part in sports.
I usually wear shorts and a T-shirt when I play tennis.
Both pants and shorts are plural nouns.
You use a plural form of a verb with them.
The pants were white with a lace trim.
His grey shorts were far too big.
Be Careful!
Don't say 'a pants' or 'a shorts'.
You can say a pair of pants or a pair of shorts.
It doesn't take long to choose a pair of pants.
He is wearing a pair of shorts and a T-shirt.
You use a singular form of a verb with a pair of pants or a pair of shorts.
Why is this pair of pants on the floor?
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Shorts
An investor who purchases or operates on the "short side"
of the market is sometimes referred to asa "short."
If a "short" sells stock he does not own,
and a sudden rally in that stock carriesthe stock up
so high that he has not money enoughto make good his sales,
then he is ruined and becomes a bankrupt— H. Irving Hancock, The Motor Boat Club Off Long Island, 1909
The short sells securities or commodities that they do not possess or have not contracted for at the time of the sale.
To the uninitiated in trading, this probably doesn'tmake much sense.
How can you sell something for profit that you do not own?
Let us explain.
The purpose of short selling is to make a profit from an anticipated drop in the price of a security or commodity.
Typically, a short borrows a quantity of stocks from a broker.
They first sell them at the current market price, retaining the proceeds. When the price of the stocks drops, the seller buys an equal quantity at the lower price, then returns the borrowed stocks (bought on the cheap), and keeps the difference from selling high and buying low.
Here's an elementary example to clarify:
The short sells 100 borrowed shares at $10 a piece (gaining $1000) and, when the price drops, buys them back at $90 per share (spending $900);
he returns the lower-valued shares and profits $100.
In baseball, short is short for shortstop
("Merriam at short threw to Webster at first for an out").
It is also used to indicate a fielding position or area that is closer to home plate
—for example, "The third baseman was playing short expecting a bunt"; "He hit a fly ball to short [=shallow] right field."
There is also a golfer's short game, the phase of golf in which control of relatively short shots, such as approach shots and putts, is important.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Word History
The History of 'Pants'
The word's origins are rooted in comedy
In US English,
the word pants isn'ta particularly funny one.
It's the most common term for that very common piece of clothing that covers the body from the waist to the ankle (give or take), with a separate part for each leg.
But the word pants is rooted in comedy.
The word 'pants' comes to us from an Anglicization of the character's name, "Pantaloon."
The word comes from the name of a stock figure in the commedia dell’arte, a form of Italian comic theater popular throughout Europe from about the 16th to the mid-18th century.
Pantalone, as he was called, was a greedy, lecherous, scheming old man who often ended up being duped and humiliated.
His costume consisted of a soft brimless hat; a pleated black cassock
(typically worn open); slippers; and a vest, breeches, and stockings that were conspicuously red and tight-fitting.
In later representations of the character, the breeches and stockings were replaced by long trousers.
When trousers of a similar style became popular during the Restoration in England, they became known as pantaloons,
Pantaloon being an Anglicization of Pantalone.
Fashions changed over the years,
but pantaloons continued to be the word used to refer to various types of trousers.
Americans clipped the term to pants in the early 19th century, and that shorter word became a standard term for the garment,
serving also as the basis for new formations denoting new garments,
such as underpants and panties.
Harmless enough to our ears,
the shortened form pants alone was considered vulgar by some language commentators for quite some time,
including Ambrose Bierce, who wrote the following in his 1909 book
Write It Right about pants for trousers:
"Abbreviated from pantaloons,
which are no longer worn. Vulgar exceedingly."
We don't know that the "vulgar exceedingly" characterization had anything to do with another use of pants or not, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pants appeared in an insulting assertion about a person's name: to say that someone's name was pants meant to say that you didn'tlike or trust that person, much like in the still-used expression "your name is mud."
And in the 20th century, the word began to appear in the phrase
"with one's pants down,"
meaning "in an embarrassing position (as of being unprepared to act)."
Pants by itself has of course continued in US English to refer to trousers, but in British English, pants is used most often to refer to what Americans call underpants
—which, makes the word a good bit funnier across the pond, at least for 8-year-olds and anyone who shares their sense of humor.
And the British have taken the humor toanother level: since the 1990s, British English speakers have also used pants informally to mean "nonsense,"
as in "It's ridiculous; the whole thing is pants"
or "The whole thing is a pile of pants."
Clearly there's too much history about the word pants for anyone to declare it itself pants.
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
pants & trousers
Pants is a term meaning “a pair of trousers.”
An abbreviation of pantaloons
Pants refer to one garment
but is treated as a plural in
“These pants are dirty.”
To use the word with a singular verb,
say “This pair of pants is ……”
Some “experts” feel that trousers is a more general term than pants,
but pants is a word calculated to stay inand, possibly, up.
