pan: significado e definições

A shallow, wide, open container, usually of metal and without a lid, used for holding liquids, cooking, and other domestic purposes.

A vessel similar in form to a pan, especially:

An open metal dish used to separate gold or other metal from gravel or waste by washing.

Either of the receptacles on a balance or pair of scales.

A vessel used for boiling and evaporating liquids.

A basin or depression in the earth, often containing mud or water.

A natural or artificial basin used to obtain salt by evaporating brine.

Hardpan.

A freely floating piece of ice that has broken off a larger floe.

The small cavity in the lock of a flintlock used to hold powder.

Music A steel drum.

Slang The face.

Informal Severe criticism, especially a negative review: gave the film a pan.

To wash (gravel, for example) in a pan for gold or other precious metal.

To cook (food) in a pan: panned the fish right after catching it.

Informal To criticize or review harshly.

To wash gravel, sand, or other sediment in a pan.

To yield gold as a result of washing in a pan.

pan out To turn out well; be successful: "If I don't pan out as an actor I can still go back to school” ( Saul Bellow).

A leaf of the betel vine.

A chewing preparation of this leaf with betel nuts, spices, and lime, used in the Far East.

To move a movie or television camera to follow an object or create a panoramic effect.

To move (a camera) so as to follow a moving object or create a panoramic effect.