Pan

[pæn]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids.

(noun.) shallow container made of metal.

(noun.) cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.

(noun.) (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.

(verb.) express a totally negative opinion of; 'The critics panned the performance'.

(verb.) wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals.

(verb.) make a sweeping movement; 'The camera panned across the room'.

哈蒂編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A part; a portion.

(n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

(n.) A leaf of gold or silver.

(v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite.

(n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.

(n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.

(n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.

(n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.

(n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.

(n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.

(n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

(n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.

(n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.

(v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.

(v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.

(v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.

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解釋/意思:

n. the Greek god of pastures flocks and woods worshipped in Arcadia and fond of music—with goat's legs and feet and sometimes horns and ears.—n. Pan's′-pipes (see Pandean).

n. a broad shallow vessel for domestic use or for use in the arts or manufactures: anything resembling a pan in shape as the upper part of the skull: the part of a firelock which holds the priming.—v.t. to treat with the panning process as earth or to separate by shaking the auriferous earth with water in a pan: to obtain in any way to secure: to cook and serve in a pan.—v.i. to yield gold: to appear as gold in a pan: to turn out well according to expectation: to try to find gold with the pan process.—Pan out to yield or afford to result; Panned out (U.S.) exhausted bankrupt.—Flash in the pan to flash and go out suddenly not igniting the charge—of the powder in the pan of a flint-lock firearm: to fail after a fitful effort to give up without accomplishing anything; Hard-pan (see Hard).

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