pan
/pæn/ verb C2- (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
He/she/it pans · Past panned · Past participle panned · -ing form panning
Verb forms
- Base form
- pan
- He/she/it
- pans
- Past
- panned
- Past participle
- panned
- -ing form
- panning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs’ bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth counting.
They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera--the Panther--and no man’s plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away.
The cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her.
'None the less,' said he, 'that is just what you will do if things pan out as I planned them.' I thought he was joking, but there was a powerful lot of meaning in the words, as I was soon to discover.
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