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panning

/pan/US // pæn //UK // (pæn) //

平移,平移法,摇摆,滚动

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a broad, shallow container of metal, usually having sides flaring outward toward the top, used in various forms for frying, baking, washing, etc.
    • : any similar receptacle or part, as the scales of a balance.
    • : the amount a pan holds or can hold; panful: a pan of shelled peas.
    • : any of various open or closed containers used in industrial or mechanical processes.
    • : a container in which silver ores are ground and amalgamated.
    • : a container in which gold or other heavy, valuable metals are separated from gravel or other substances by agitation with water.
    • : a drifting piece of flat, thin ice, as formed on a shore or bay.
    • : a natural depression in the ground, as one containing water, mud, or mineral salts.
    • : a similar depression made artificially, as for evaporating salt water to make salt.
    • : the depressed part of the lock, holding the priming.
    • : Also panning . an unfavorable review, critique, or appraisal:The show got one rave and three pans.
    • : Slang. the face.
v.有主动词 verb
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    panned, pan·ning.

    • : Informal. to criticize severely, as in a review of a play.
    • : to wash in a pan to separate gold or other heavy valuable metal.
    • : to cook in a pan.
v.无主动词 verb
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    panned, pan·ning.

    • : to wash gravel, sand, etc., in a pan in seeking gold or the like.
    • : to yield gold or the like, as gravel washed in a pan.
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    • : pan out, Informal. to turn out, especially successfully: The couple's reconciliation just didn't pan out.

Phrases

  • pan out
  • flash in the pan
  • out of the frying pan

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • While panning for gold, he made himself a large hat from the hides he had collected on his trip.

  • Cameras panning to American fans showed dispirited faces, furrowed brows.

  • “Costner suggests Dan Quayle with a sword,” added Mike Clark of USA Today, panning Robin Hood.

  • It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Downey's character is on to something when it comes to panning for Oscar gold.

  • The first man, favored from the start, generally got a thumbs up, but the second suffered a wide, cross-political panning.

  • We have already described panning, the crudest manner of separating gold from gravel.

  • I'm panning out about this, because it seems so deuced interesting and I should like to know what you and Barbara think.

  • It's a great little game panning the world so long as you don't let your sessions get too long or too serious.

  • It proved a most erratic and puzzling paystreak—one day rich beyond our dreams, another too poor to pay for the panning.

  • It was close by; he had hidden there his pick, shovel and the broad shallow basin used for panning gold.