Definition of the word pan1

Pronunciation of vocabulary pan1

pan1verb

PAN1

/pæn//pæn/

Origin of the word pan1

Word Originverb sense 1 and verb sense 3 Old English panne, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch pan, German Pfanne, perhaps based on Latin patina ‘dish’.

Example of vocabulary pan1namespace

meaning

to severely criticize something such as a play or a film

  • The television series was panned by critics and viewers alike.
meaning

if a television or video camera pans somewhere, or a person pans or pans a camera, the camera moves in a particular direction, to follow an object or to film a wide area

  • The camera panned back to the audience.
  • He panned the camera along the row of faces.
meaning

to wash soil or small stones in a pan to find gold or other valuable minerals

  • panning for gold

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