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pan/
n.
       - a metal container for cooking food in.
 - a bowl fitted at either end of a pair of scales. 
▸Brit. the bowl of a toilet.
 ▸a shallow bowl in which gravel and mud is shaken and washed by people seeking gold.
 - a steel drum.
 - a hollow in the ground in which water collects or in which a deposit of salt remains after evaporation.
 - a hard stratum of compacted soil.
 - a part of the lock that held the priming in old types of gun.
 - US informal a person's face.
 
v.
 (pans, panning, panned)
   - informal criticize severely.
 - wash gravel in a pan to separate out (gold).
 - 
(pan out)
 end up or conclude, especially in a good way.
 
Phrase
- go down the pan
 Brit. informal reach a stage of abject failure or uselessness. 
Derivative
- panful n. 
(pl. panfuls)
.  - pan-like adj.
 
Etymology
OE panne, of W. Gmc origin, perh. based on L. patina ‘dish’.
pan2
 
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pan/
v.
 (pans, panning, panned)
 swing (a video or film camera) in a horizontal or vertical plane to give a panoramic effect or follow a subject.
n.
 a panning movement.
Phrase
- pan and scan
 a technique for narrowing the aspect ratio of a widescreen film to fit a television screen by continuously selecting the most significant portion of the original picture. 
Etymology
early 20th cent.: abbrev. of panorama.