| query | If you pan a film or television camera or if it p___ somewhere, it moves slowly round so that a wide area is filmed.If you pan a film or television camera or if it pans somewhere, it moves slowly round so that a wide area is filmed. The camera panned along the line of players. He panned over the crowd for a few minutes before swivelling back to the right. A television camera panned the stadium. He panned the camera, giving a sense of motion. |
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| word | pan |
| full-definition | noun A pan is a round metal container with a long handle, which is used for cooking things in, usually on top of a cooker or stove . Heat the butter and oil in a large pan. A pan is a shallow metal container used for baking foods. verb If something such as a film or a book is panned by journalists, they say it is very bad . His first high-budget movie, called 'Brain Donors', was panned by the critics. If you pan a film or television camera or if it pans somewhere, it moves slowly round so that a wide area is filmed. The camera panned along the line of players. He panned over the crowd for a few minutes before swivelling back to the right. A television camera panned the stadium. He panned the camera, giving a sense of motion. If someone pans for gold, they use a shallow metal container to try to find small pieces of gold from a river. People came westward in the 1800s to pan for gold. Every year they panned about a ton and a half of gold. |
| inflections | panspanningpanned |
| cefr-level | B1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b1
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