(~s, ~ning, ~ned)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ 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 ~.
= sauce~
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2.
If something such as a film or a book is ~ned by journalists, they say it is very bad. (INFORMAL)
His first high-budget movie, called ‘Brain Donors’, was ~ned by the critics.
= slate
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
3.
If you ~ a film or television camera or if it ~s somewhere, it moves slowly round so that a wide area is filmed.
The camera ~ned along the line of players...
A television camera ~ned the stadium...
VERB: V prep/adv, V n
4.
If someone ~s 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 ~ for gold...
Every year they ~ned about a ton and a half of gold.
VERB: V for n, V n