| 单词 | pan |
| 释义 | pan 1. n. & v. --n 1. a a vessel of metal, earthenware, or plastic, usu. broad and shallow, used for cooking and other domestic purposes. b the contents of this. 2. a panlike vessel in which substances are heated etc. 3. any similar shallow container such as the bowl of a pair of scales or that used for washing gravel etc. to separate gold. 4. Brit. the bowl of a lavatory. 5. part of the lock that held the priming in old guns. 6. a hollow in the ground (salt-pan). 7. a hard substratum of soil. 8. US sl. the face. --v (panned, panning) 1. tr. colloq. criticize severely. 2. a tr. (foll. by off, out) wash (gold-bearing gravel) in a pan. b intr. search for gold by panning gravel. c intr. (foll. by out) (of gravel) yield gold. Phrases and idioms pan out (of an action etc.) turn out in a specified way. Derivatives panful n. (pl. -fuls). panlike adj. Etymology: OE panne, perh. ult. f. L patina dish 2. v. & n. --v (panned, panning) 1. tr. swing (a cine-camera) horizontally to give a panoramic effect or to follow a moving object. 2. intr. (of a cine-camera) be moved in this way. --n a panning movement. Etymology: abbr. of PANORAMA 3. n. Bot. 1. a leaf of the betel. 2. this enclosing lime and areca-nut parings, chewed in India etc. Etymology: Hindi f. Skr. parna feather, leaf |
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