pan
♦ pan /p'æn/ (pans panning panned)
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A pan is a round metal container with a long handle, which is used for cooking things in, usually on top of a cooker or stove.
Heat the butter and oil in a large pan.
= saucepan
2 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed
If something such as a film or a book is panned by journalists, they say it is very bad. (INFORMAL)
His first high-budget movie, called `Brain Donors', was panned by the critics.
= slate
3 [VERB] V prep/adv, V n
If you pan a film or television camera or if it pans somewhere, it moves slowly round so that a wide area is filmed.
The camera panned along the line of players...
A television camera panned the stadium...
4 [VERB] V for n, V n
If someone pans for gold, they use a shallow metal container to try to find small pieces of gold from a river.
People came westward in the 1800s to pan for gold...
Every year they panned about a ton and a half of gold.cake pan (cake pans)
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A cake pan is a metal container that you bake a cake in. (AM; in BRIT, usually use cake tin)fry|ing pan (frying pans)
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A frying pan is a flat metal pan with a long handle, in which you fry food.oil pan (oil pans)
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An oil pan is the place under an engine which holds the engine oil. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use sump)pan out
[PHRASAL VERB] V P
If something, for example a project or some information, pans out, it produces something useful or valuable. (INFORMAL)
None of Morgan's proposed financings panned out.
1 [N-COUNT]
A pan is a round metal container with a long handle, which is used for cooking things in, usually on top of a cooker or stove.
Heat the butter and oil in a large pan.
= saucepan
2 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed
If something such as a film or a book is panned by journalists, they say it is very bad. (INFORMAL)
His first high-budget movie, called `Brain Donors', was panned by the critics.
= slate
3 [VERB] V prep/adv, V n
If you pan a film or television camera or if it pans somewhere, it moves slowly round so that a wide area is filmed.
The camera panned along the line of players...
A television camera panned the stadium...
4 [VERB] V for n, V n
If someone pans for gold, they use a shallow metal container to try to find small pieces of gold from a river.
People came westward in the 1800s to pan for gold...
Every year they panned about a ton and a half of gold.cake pan (cake pans)
[N-COUNT]
A cake pan is a metal container that you bake a cake in. (AM; in BRIT, usually use cake tin)fry|ing pan (frying pans)
[N-COUNT]
A frying pan is a flat metal pan with a long handle, in which you fry food.oil pan (oil pans)
[N-COUNT]
An oil pan is the place under an engine which holds the engine oil. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use sump)pan out
[PHRASAL VERB] V P
If something, for example a project or some information, pans out, it produces something useful or valuable. (INFORMAL)
None of Morgan's proposed financings panned out.