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ant
/ænt/
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What does ant mean?
noun
- Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
- A Web spider.
verb
- To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers.
More meanings (8)
noun
- Initialism of Aids to Navigation Team, as used in the United States Coast Guard.
- Abbreviation of actor–network theory.
- Acronym of ambiguous nuclear transient.
proper noun
- A diminutive of the male given name Anthony, from Latin.
- A river in Norfolk, England, tributary to the Bure.
- The 27th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
- Anthropic (American artificial intelligence company)
- Initialism of Afghanistan National Television.
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I come now to a mental detail wherein the ant is a long way the superior of any human being.
Applied to any other creature than the Leviathan—to an ant or a flea—such portly terms might justly be deemed unwarrantably grandiloquent.
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Terry, at his worst, in a black fury for which, as a man, I must have some sympathy, preferred the ant simile.
A small ant swarmed by thousands under the loose dry blocks of coral, and was the only true insect which was abundant.
After more or less prolonged hesitations, after a search now in this direction, now in that, the Ant succeeds in finding her column.