transcription, транскрипция: [ pæn ]
( pans, panning, panned)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
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
N-COUNT
2.
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
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed
3.
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...
VERB : V prep / adv , V n
4.
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.
VERB : V for n , V n