| 单词 | pan |
| 释义 | pan (once / 669 pages) 1nv 2v 3v A pan can be a cooking utensil, a negative opinion, or a sweeping camera shot. You cook eggs in a pan, but as a film critic you might pan a new docudrama for poor editing and overuse of pan shots. A pan is a shallow metal object that you use to cook food. It can also be a verb indicating you're expressing a negative view. To pan a performance, book, or movie is to say that you think it stunk. If all the critics pan something, sales usually go down, but not always. To pan a film or video camera is to move it from left to right or right to left in a smooth motion. WORD FAMILYpan: paned, panned, panning, pans USAGE EXAMPLESAn online humor site panned the four options and urged its readers to vote for what it considered the worst, a boring black-and-white option. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Put a griddle pan on to a high heat and leave to warm up. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) This dish is a small miracle in a smaller skillet, an impossibly rich butter-laden cornmeal cake fired in an individual-sized cast-iron pan. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n shallow container made of metal Hypo|Hyper bain-marie a large pan that is filled with hot water; smaller pans containing food can be set in the larger pan to keep food warm or to cook food slowly dishpanlarge pan for washing dishes drip panpan under a refrigerator for collecting liquid waste pannikina small pan or cup (usually of tin) warming pana long-handled covered pan holding live coals to warm a bed container any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) 2n cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel Syn|Hypo|Hyper cooking pan drip pan, dripping pan pan for catching drippings under roasting meat frying pan, frypan, skilleta pan used for frying foods omelet pan, omelette panpan for cooking omelets patty-pana pan for cooking patties or pasties roastera special cooking pan for roasting saucepana deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling wokpan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking double boiler, double saucepantwo saucepans, one fitting inside the other electric frying pana frying pan heated by electricity spidera skillet made of cast iron stewing pan, stewpana saucepan used for stewing cooking utensil, cookware a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking 3v wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals 2Syn|Hyper pan off, pan out wash separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) v express a totally negative opinion of 3The critics panned the performance Syn|Hyper tear apart, trash belittle, disparage, pick at express a negative opinion of v make a sweeping movement The camera panned across the room Hyper go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically Pan (once / 1455 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY Pan: Pans USAGE EXAMPLESLess than a week later he and Pan would be free. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) But Pan Chih-chieh, a university student the southern Taiwan city of Tainan, said the high school rally shows a need for more education. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) At 31, Pan Pan was thought to be the world’s oldest male panda. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 n (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus 2Syn|Exp goat god Greek deity a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks n chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids Syn|Hyper genus Pan mammal genus a genus of mammals |
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