Pan

Tamil Meaning

வெற்றிலை

உலோகத்தட்டு

English Meaning

  1. A shallow, wide, open container, usually of metal and without a lid, used for holding liquids, cooking, and other domestic purposes.
  2. A vessel similar in form to a pan, especially:
  3. An open metal dish used to separate gold or other metal from gravel or waste by washing.
  4. Either of the receptacles on a balance or pair of scales.
  5. A vessel used for boiling and evaporating liquids.
  6. A basin or depression in the earth, often containing mud or water.
  7. A natural or artificial basin used to obtain salt by evaporating brine.
  8. Hardpan.
  9. A freely floating piece of ice that has broken off a larger floe.
  10. The small cavity in the lock of a flintlock used to hold powder.
  11. Music A steel drum.
  12. Slang The face.
  13. Informal Severe criticism, especially a negative review: gave the film a pan.
  14. To wash (gravel, for example) in a pan for gold or other precious metal.
  15. To cook (food) in a pan: panned the fish right after catching it.
  16. Informal To criticize or review harshly.
  17. To wash gravel, sand, or other sediment in a pan.
  18. To yield gold as a result of washing in a pan.
  19. 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).
  20. A leaf of the betel vine.
  21. A chewing preparation of this leaf with betel nuts, spices, and lime, used in the Far East.
  22. To move a movie or television camera to follow an object or create a panoramic effect.
  23. To move (a camera) so as to follow a moving object or create a panoramic effect.

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