panning
平移,平移法,摇摆,滚动
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Definitions
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- : a broad, shallow container of metal, usually having sides flaring outward toward the top, used in various forms for frying, baking, washing, etc.
- : any similar receptacle or part, as the scales of a balance.
- : the amount a pan holds or can hold; panful: a pan of shelled peas.
- : any of various open or closed containers used in industrial or mechanical processes.
- : a container in which silver ores are ground and amalgamated.
- : a container in which gold or other heavy, valuable metals are separated from gravel or other substances by agitation with water.
- : a drifting piece of flat, thin ice, as formed on a shore or bay.
- : a natural depression in the ground, as one containing water, mud, or mineral salts.
- : a similar depression made artificially, as for evaporating salt water to make salt.
- : the depressed part of the lock, holding the priming.
- : Also panning . an unfavorable review, critique, or appraisal:The show got one rave and three pans.
- : Slang. the face.
Phrases
- pan out
- flash in the pan
- out of the frying pan
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
While panning for gold, he made himself a large hat from the hides he had collected on his trip.
Cameras panning to American fans showed dispirited faces, furrowed brows.
“Costner suggests Dan Quayle with a sword,” added Mike Clark of USA Today, panning Robin Hood.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Downey's character is on to something when it comes to panning for Oscar gold.
The first man, favored from the start, generally got a thumbs up, but the second suffered a wide, cross-political panning.
We have already described panning, the crudest manner of separating gold from gravel.
I'm panning out about this, because it seems so deuced interesting and I should like to know what you and Barbara think.
It's a great little game panning the world so long as you don't let your sessions get too long or too serious.
It proved a most erratic and puzzling paystreak—one day rich beyond our dreams, another too poor to pay for the panning.
It was close by; he had hidden there his pick, shovel and the broad shallow basin used for panning gold.