Definition of pan in English English dictionary
- Primary Account Number
- polyacrylonitrile
- Personal Area Network
- peroxyacetylnitrate or peroxyacetyl nitrate
- Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes
- 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 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed
- To beat one's opposition convincingly
- To turn horizontally (of a camera etc.)
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home
- Strong adverse criticism
- The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel
- A human face, a mug
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking
- The contents of such a receptacle
- a specific type of lake, natural depression or basin. They are sometimes associated with desert areas
- To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold)
- A loaf of bread
- The base part of a toilet, consisting of a bowl and a footing
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water
- With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful
- To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely
- pref. all, total, complete (i.e. Pan-American)
- {n} a kitchen-vessel, hole, part of a lock
- {v} to quibble, quirk, play upon words
- {v} to join or close together, to unite
- {i} Greek god who guards and protects shepherds and their herds (Greek Mythology)
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking or frying
- See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum
- 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. To move (a camera) so as to follow a moving object or create a panoramic effect. in Greek mythology, the god of fields, forests, and shepherds. Pan is usually shown in pictures as a man with a goat's horns, ears, and legs, playing the panpipes. He is also famous for his strong sexual desire. Greek fertility deity with a half-human, half-animal form. The Romans associated him with Faunus. Pan was usually said to be the son of Hermes. He was often represented as a vigorous and lustful figure with the horns, legs, and ears of a goat; in later art his human parts were more emphasized. Some Christian depictions of the Devil bear a striking resemblance to Pan. Pan haunted the high hills, where he was chiefly concerned with flocks and herds. Like a shepherd, Pan was a piper, and he rested at noon. He could inspire irrational terror in humans, and the word panic comes from his name. Pan p'o Pan American Sports Games Pan American World Airways Inc. Pan Am Pan Gu Pan African movement Pan American Highway Pan American Union Pan Arabism Pan Germanism Pan Slavism Pan Turkism Tin Pan Alley
- A horizontal camera pivot (from right to left or left to right) from a stationary position
- Personal Area Network Boosted by the promotion of Bluetooth, PANs are very short-range
- A face
- shallow container made of metal
- To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium
- {i} flat shallow pan for frying food; pot for cooking food; toilet; basin, bowl
- To join or fit together; to unite
- Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous
- To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly
- The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting
- To move the viewing window up, down, or sideways to display areas in a geographic dataset which, at the current viewing scale, lie outside the window
- A camera move from left to right from a fixed point In a pan the camera is rotating on the head and not moving on a dolly
- (Balance) Knob on the mixer that adjusts the relative volume between left and right (or A and B) in a stereo setup Just like the stereo in the living room
- A camera movement with the camera body turning to the right or left On the screen, it produces a mobile framing which scans the space horizontally
- 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
- To pan is to move the sound between full left and full right in a stereo sound field It resembles the "balance" function of a stereo receiver- amplifier
- to move a signal from the left to the right of a stereo field, or vice versa
- The contents of such a dish
- chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids shallow container made of metal cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel (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 express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance"
- To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan
- A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud
- A horizontal movement of the camera from a fixed point
- Personal Area Network Term often used in reference to Bluetooth technologies under development that will enable short-range communications among wireless devices
- also employed for various uses in manufacturing
- See Hard pan, under Hard
- 1) Movement of lighting from side to side 2) Slang for Pancake
- A camera movement in which the camera body swivels to the right or left The onscreen effect is of scanning the space horizontally
- chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
- 1 Goatlike Greek god after whom panpipes were named 2 Parameter used to control the left/right (panoramic) movement of a sound
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room
- {f} cook food in a frying pan; criticize harshly; move a video camera from one side to the other to capture a panoramic view
- Designation of films that record all colors in tones of about the same relative brightness as the human eye sees in the original scene, sensitive to all visible wave-lengths
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating
- Rotating or scanning a camera side ways to view an area in a horizontal direction
- The PAN is a wireless LAN with a very short range (up to 10 meters) PANs are used to connect devices, such as a PDA, keyboard, mouse, printer, etc that a single person uses with their computer PANs enable easier interconnection between devices by eliminating cables Bluetooth* is a technology commonly used to form a PAN
- A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph
- (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
- Pan-
- A combining form meaning "all", used in the formation of compound words, particularly those that identify collections of all places in a region, cultures within a group, or religions
- Pan-Africanism
- A sociopolitical movement seeking to unify native Africans and those of African heritage into a global community
- Pan-American
- Covering or representing all of the Americas (both North America and South America), particularly with respect to events involving representatives of most or all countries in the Americas
- Pan-American
- An airline active in the United States from 1927 until 1991
- Pan-Americanism
- Belief in the benefit of Pan-American organization
- Pan-Asian
- Covering or representing all of Asia, particularly with respect to events involving representatives of most or all Asian countries
- Pan-Cake
- A semisolid cosmetic, or theatrical makeup, pressed into a flat cake and applied with a damp sponge
- Pan-European
- Relating to, covering or serving most or all of Europe
- Pan-Slavism
- A movement aimed at uniting all the Slavic peoples
- Pan-Turkism
- A political movement started more than 100 years ago aiming to unite the various Turkic peoples into a modern political state
- pan and scan
- The method or practice of adjusting widescreen film images, especially 2.35: 1 or 2.39: 1 aspect ratio, so that they can be shown within the proportions of a 1.33: 1 or 1.78: 1 aspect ratio television screen, by cropping off sides of the original widescreen image, as opposed to letterboxing
Alicia hated the person who had invented pan and scan, since the heightened panning effect aggravated her nausea when watching action movies.
- pan and scan
- To crop out (a character or object) when performing the pan and scan process, resulting in the deletion of a character or object
On the fullscreen version of Star Wars Episode II, only Anakin and Obi-Wan appear in the scene because Padmé was panned and scanned out.
- pan and scan
- Formatted to fit within proportions of a 1.33: 1 or 1.78: 1 aspect ratio television screen, with sides of the original widescreen image (especially 2.35: 1 aspect ratio) cropped off
Paul disdained pan and scan DVD releases, always holding out for the widescreen special editions.
- pan and scan
- To adjust widescreen film images so that they can be shown with standard television aspect ratios by cropping the original image, i.e. using pan and scan methods
- pan and scan
- A movie recording employing this technology
In the discount bin by the door sat a pile of pan and scans, mostly comedies, that no one would touch.
- pan bagnat
- A sandwich originating in southern France, composed of Niçoise salad in a circular bun
- pan bagnats
- plural form of pan bagnat
- pan flute
- A musical instrument, played by mouth, comprising tubes arranged in order of length
- pan former
- Power roll-forming equipment that produces a metal panel from a flat sheet
- pan man
- A person employed to empty the contents of the outside toilet (ie. human excrement) at suburban houses (and similar). Rendered obsolete by the introduction of plumbed (ie. piped) sewerage systems
The 'dunny' down the back yard was emptied by the council's pan man once a week. — Susan Marsden, essay Argyle, a port worker's home 19 Forbes Street Carrington New South Wales, describing 1920s way of life there.
- pan men
- plural form of pan man
- pan out
- To succeed; to proceed according to plan; to result or end up
The China market is finally panning out, thanks to the voracious consumerism of the middle class.
- pan out
- To separate and recover (valuable minerals) by swirling dirt or crushed rock in a pan of water, in the manner of a traditional prospector seeking gold
His father came out in '49 with the gold rush crowd, panned out a good pile, and then, liking the life—San Francisco was a gay little burg those days—opened one of the crack gambling houses down on the Old Plaza.
- pan pipes
- A primitive musical instrument consisting of a series of stopped pipes of gradually increasing length bound together in a row
- pan-
- A combining form meaning "all", used in the formation of compound words
- pan-broil
- To cook over direct heat in an ungreased skillet
- pan-fry
- to fry in a pan with minimal oil
- pan-loaf
- pan-loafy
- pan-loaf
- A loaf of bread baked in a tin or pan
- pan-loafy
- Posh, pretentious or stuck-up
I think it could be a panloafy way of saying loyal, instead of leal.?.
- pan-pan
- a minor emergency requiring some assistance or priority in handling, but not endangering the safety of the vessel or those aboard
If you transmit a Pan-Pan call, then find that you no longer require assistance, you must cancel the message.
- pan-pan
- radio call used to indicate that such an emergency exists
- pan-american
- including or pertaining to the whole of america, both north and south
- pan culture
- Pan Culture is a medical term - as in the prefix "pan-," meaning "all" or "every", dealing with a culture of bacteria or a different organism
- pan-africanism
- The principle or advocacy of the political union of all the indigenous inhabitants of Africa
- Pan Africanism
- advocacy of a political union or pact of all the African countries, philosophy established upon the opinion that African people share common bonds and purposes
- Pan American Games
- a number of sports competitions which take place every four years in which the countries of South, Central, and North America take part. Quadrennial sports festival. The games, conceived in 1940 as an event for the nations of the Western Hemisphere, were first held in 1951. Patterned after the Olympic Games and sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee, the games are conducted by the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO), or Organización Deportiva Panamericana (ODEPA), headquartered in Mexico City. All major international sports and several more specialized events are included in the regular program. They are held the year preceding the Olympics, in various host cities
- Pan American Sports Games
- Quadrennial sports festival. The games, conceived in 1940 as an event for the nations of the Western Hemisphere, were first held in 1951. Patterned after the Olympic Games and sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee, the games are conducted by the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO), or Organización Deportiva Panamericana (ODEPA), headquartered in Mexico City. All major international sports and several more specialized events are included in the regular program. They are held the year preceding the Olympics, in various host cities
- Pan Gu
- or P'an Ku In Chinese Daoist legend, the first man. He came forth from Chaos (an egg) with two horns, two tusks, and a hairy body. He used his knowledge of yin-yang to separate heaven and earth, set the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets in place, and divide the four seas. He also shaped the earth by chiseling out valleys and stacking up mountains. Another legend says that the universe derived from Pan Gu's gigantic corpse. His eyes became the Sun and Moon, his blood formed rivers, his hair grew into trees and plants, and the human race sprang from parasites that infested his body. In art, he is often shown as a dwarf clothed with leaves
- Pan-African
- {s} of or pertaining to Pan-Africanism; of or pertaining to all African nations, of or pertaining to all African people
- Pan-African movement
- Movement dedicated to establishing independence for African nations and cultivating unity among black people throughout the world. It originated in conferences held in London (1900, 1919, 1921, 1923) and other cities. W.E.B. Du Bois was a principal early leader. The important sixth Pan-African conference (Manchester, 1945) included Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah. The first truly intergovernmental conference was held in Accra, Ghana, in 1958, where Patrice Lumumba was a key speaker. The Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) was founded by Robert M. Sobukwe and others in South Africa in 1959 as a political alternative to the African National Congress, which was seen as contaminated by non-African influences. The founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU; now the African Union) by Julius Nyerere and others in 1963 was a milestone, and the OAU soon became the most important Pan-Africanist organization
- Pan-American
- {s} of all of the Americas, of all countries in North South and Central America
- Pan-American Highway
- A system of roadways, about 25,744 km (16,000 mi) long, extending from Alaska to Chile and linking the nations of the Western Hemisphere. the Pan-American Highway a road that goes all the way from Canada to Argentina, connecting North, Central, and South America. It is about 25,000 kilometres/16,000 miles long. International highway system connecting North and South America. Conceived in 1923 as a single route, the road grew to include a number of designated highways in participating countries, including the Inter-American Highway from Nuevo Laredo, Mex., to Panama City, Pan. The whole system, extending from Alaska and Canada to Chile, Argentina, and Brazil, totals nearly 30,000 mi (48,000 km). Only some 240 miles (400 km) in the Panama-Colombia border area remain uncompleted
- Pan-American Union
- Organization formed in 1890 to promote cooperation among the countries of Latin America and the U.S. It was established (as the International Union of American Republics) at the first Pan-American conference, which was called by U.S. secretary of state James Blaine in order to reach agreements on various common commercial and juridical problems among the countries of the Americas. In 1948 it was reconstituted as the Organization of American States
- Pan-Arabism
- Nationalist notion of cultural and political unity among Arab countries. Its origins lie in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when increased literacy led to a cultural and literary renaissance among Arabs of the Middle East. This contributed to political agitation and led to the independence of most Arab states from the Ottoman Empire (1918) and from the European powers (by the mid-20th century). An important event was the founding in 1943 of the Bath Party, which formed branches in several countries and became the ruling party in Syria and Iraq. Another was the founding of the Arab League in 1945. Pan-Arabism's most charismatic and effective proponent was Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. After Nasser's death, Syria's Hfiz al-Assad, Iraq's Saddm Hussein, and Libya's Muammar al-Qaddafi tried to assume the mantle of Arab leadership
- Pan-Asiatic
- including all of Asia, encompassing Asia
- Pan-European
- pertaining to the political union of all European countries
- Pan-Germanism
- Movement to politically unify all German-speaking people. The desire for German unification began in the early 19th century and was advanced by Ernst Arndt and other early nationalists. The Pan-German League was organized in 1894 by Ernst Hasse (1846-1908) to heighten German nationalist awareness, especially among German-speaking people outside Germany. The movement, which pressed for German expansion in Europe, gained support after World War I under the Weimar Republic and was actively promoted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. After Germany's defeat in 1945 and the expulsion of Germans from formerly German areas of eastern Europe, the movement declined
- Pan-Islam
- movement which supports the political union of all Moslem countries
- Pan-Slavism
- Movement to unite Slav peoples of eastern and central Europe. It began in the early 19th century when Slav intellectuals studied their common cultures. Political goals for Slavic unity increased in 1848, when a Slav congress organized by Frantiek Palacky met in Prague to press for equal rights under Austrian rule. In the 1860s the movement became popular in Russia, to which Pan-Slavs looked for protection from Turkish and Austro-Hungarian rule; this led Russia and Serbia into wars against the Ottoman Empire in 1876-77. In the 20th century, nationalist rivalries among the Slav peoples prevented their effective collaboration
- Pan-Turkism
- Political movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which had as its goal the political union of all Turkic-speaking peoples in the Ottoman Empire, Russia, China, Iran, and Afghanistan. The movement, which began among the Turks in the Crimea and on the Volga, initially sought to unite the Turks of the Ottoman and Russian empires against growing Russian domination. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the father of the Republic of Turkey, later de-emphasized Pan-Turkism, encouraging Turkish nationalism only within Turkey. See also Ismail Gasprinski; Enver Pasha; Young Turks
- pan american day
- a day celebrating political and economic unity among American countries
- pan american union
- the administrative agency of the Organization of American States
- pan fish
- A fish small enough to be fried whole in a pan
- pan gravy
- pan juices thickened and seasoned
- pan handle
- {i} (Informal) extended protrusion resembling a tail of a geo-political entity
- pan off
- pan: wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- pan out
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- pan out
- If something, for example a project or some information, pans out, it produces something useful or valuable. None of Morgan's proposed financings panned out
- pan out
- be a success; "The idea panned out
- pan out
- work out successfully; become possible; end up
- pan out
- be a success; "The idea panned out"
- pan roast
- roast in a pan; "pan-roast that meat
- pan-
- pan- is added to the beginning of adjectives and nouns to form other adjectives and nouns that describe something as being connected with all places or people of a particular kind. a pan-European defence system. the ideology of pan-Arabism. including all people
- pan-
- The PAN is a wireless LAN with a very short range (up to 10 meters) PANs are used to connect devices, such as a PDA, keyboard, mouse, printer, etc that a single person uses with their computer PANs enable easier interconnection between devices by eliminating cables Bluetooth* is a technology commonly used to form a PAN
- pan-
- to move a signal from the left to the right of a stereo field, or vice versa
- pan-
- A horizontal movement of the camera from a fixed point
- pan-
- 1) Movement of lighting from side to side 2) Slang for Pancake
- pan-
- 1)To follow the motion of a moving object with the camera This will cause the object to look sharp and the background, blurred 2) See Panchromatic
- pan-
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- pan-
- A camera movement in which the camera body swivels to the right or left The onscreen effect is of scanning the space horizontally
- pan-
- A camera move from left to right from a fixed point In a pan the camera is rotating on the head and not moving on a dolly
- pan-
- Computer networks Personal area network: referring to the range of connections that exist on the desktops or on the person of those regularly transferring data between a range of computing devices, including standard PCs and their peripherals, laptop computers, PDAs, mobile phones, and dedicated media devices such as digital cameras or MP3 players In theory, technologies like Bluetooth may ease the PAN connectivity problems by enabling wireless linkages between devices such as computers, printers and a range of pocket hardware
- pan-
- To move the viewing window up, down, or sideways to display areas in a geographic dataset which, at the current viewing scale, lie outside the window
- pan-
- A horizontal camera pivot (from right to left or left to right) from a stationary position
- pan-
- 1 Goatlike Greek god after whom panpipes were named 2 Parameter used to control the left/right (panoramic) movement of a sound
- pan-
- A Personal Area Network typically covers the few meters surrounding a user's workspace and provides the ability to synchronize computers, transfers files and gain access to local peripherals like printers and a range of pocket hardware A technology like Bluetooth may enable wireless PAN
- pan-
- When clicked with the Left Mouse Button, this button allows you to move the center of your view away from co-ordinates 0,0,0 This has allows you to concentrate on different areas of the drawing (The zoom function, for example, zooms in on the center of your drawing You might wish to zoom in on an area that is not at co-ordinates 0,0,0 You can do this by panning the drawing so the area of interest is now at the center of your view )
- pan-
- To pan is to move the sound between full left and full right in a stereo sound field It resembles the "balance" function of a stereo receiver- amplifier
- pan-
- To move the viewing window up, down, or sideways to display areas in a geographic data set which, at the current viewing scale, lie outside the viewing window See also zoom
- pan-
- (Balance) Knob on the mixer that adjusts the relative volume between left and right (or A and B) in a stereo setup Just like the stereo in the living room
- pan-
- express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance"
- pan-
- A knob on stereo mixers that routes the audio signal from a particular input channel to either the left or right stereo channels or a mixture of both
- pan-
- Personal Area Network Term often used in reference to Bluetooth technologies under development that will enable short-range communications among wireless devices
- pan-
- The Account number that identifies the Issuer and the Cardholder and that is fully displayed and encoded on the Card
- pan-
- A ceiling fixture that has a much larger canopy covering the junction box and a minimum of two lights (Also see: Shower)
- pan-
- The process of moving the display window to view different areas of a drawing This is done most commonly by depressing the pan button and moving the mouse
- pan-
- A camera movement with the camera body turning to the right or left On the screen, it produces a mobile framing which scans the space horizontally
- pan-
- Designation of films that record all colors in tones of about the same relative brightness as the human eye sees in the original scene, sensitive to all visible wave-lengths
- pan-
- shallow container made of metal
- pan-
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- pan-
- (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
- pan-
- Rotating or scanning a camera side ways to view an area in a horizontal direction
- pan-
- Personal Area Network Boosted by the promotion of Bluetooth, PANs are very short-range
- pan-
- make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room"
- pan-
- chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
- pan-Africanism
- {i} advocacy of a political union or pact of all the African countries, philosophy established upon the opinion that African people share common bonds and purposes
- pan-broil
- broil in a pan
- pan-fried
- Pan-fried food is is food that has been cooked in hot fat or oil in a frying pan
- pan-fry
- fry in a pan; "pan-fry the dumplings
- Peter Pan
- A man who acts as a child and does not accept the responsibilities of adulthood
A Peter Pan if ever there was one. Hopeless at school. Incapable either of competing or co-operating..
- Peter Pan syndrome
- The supposed psychological phenomenon of immaturity among some men, who, like the fictional character, remain childish and fail to assume appropriate adult social roles and responsibilities
The husband himself (called he to emphasize his role as Typical Male) comes across as a rather dense, naughty adolescent boy. He is clearly suffering from a terminal case of the Peter Pan syndrome.
- Tin Pan Alley
- The songwriting and publishing industry
- Tin Pan Alley
- District in New York City centered on 28th Street during the period roughly from 1885 to the 1920's where thousands of popular songs were commercially written
- brain-pan
- The skull or cranium, hence, the head or brain
- flash in the pan
- A career notable for early success not followed by significant accomplishment
He was named best new director of 1940, but his career was a flash in the pan.
- flash in the pan
- A transient occurrence with no long-term effect
The concept turned out to be merely a flash in the pan, and is no longer used.
- frying pan
- A long-handled, shallow pan used for frying food
- go down the pan
- To fail or degenerate rapidly
The project would seriously go down the pan if Mrs. Foster weren't here to keep it on the straight and narrow.
- jelly roll pan
- A wide, flat pan similar to a cookie sheet but with deeper sides
- milk pan
- A small type of saucepan, with a lip, used for heating milk
- moo goo gai pan
- An Americanized version of the Cantonese dish, usually a simple stir-fried dish consisting of sliced or cubed chicken with white button mushrooms and other vegetables such as snow peas, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and Chinese cabbage
- out of the frying pan and into the fire
- Alternative form of out of the frying pan, into the fire
- out of the frying pan into the fire
- Alternative form of out of the frying pan, into the fire
- out of the frying pan, into the fire
- From an already bad situation to a worse one
- pie pan
- A pan for holding and shaping the dough and filling of a pie, made of a heat-conducting metal, glass or other ceramic, and (more recently) silicone
- salt pan
- A flat expanse of ground naturally covered with salt and other minerals; this is the accumulation of salts and minerals as water, unable to drain into the ground, evaporates
- salt pan
- A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated to concentrate it during the making of salt
- steel pan orchestra
- a band made up of people who play instruments such as the steelpan
- warming pan
- A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed
- Out of the frying pan into the fire
- (Muhasebe) If you get out of one problem, but find yourself in a worse situation, you are out of the frying pan, into the fire
- be out of the frying pan into the fire
- (Muhasebe) If you get out of one problem, but find yourself in a worse situation, you are out of the frying pan, into the fire
- jump out of frying pan into fire
- Go from a bad situation to an even worse one
Many kids who run away from unhappy homes discover they've jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
- jump out of the frying pan and into the fire
- (deyim) Go from bad to the worse
- out of the frying pan and into the fire
- (deyim) Out of one trouble and into more trouble, from something bad to something worse When he changed jobs he went out of the frying pan and into the fire. His new job is much worse
- out of the frying pan into the fire
- (deyim) Going from a bad situation to one that is even worse.This idiom is used to say that someone gets out of a difficult or bad situation, but eventually goes into a more difficult or worse one
- out of the frying-pan into the fire
- (deyim) Out of the frying pan into the fire is a phrase which can be used in one of two ways. It can be used in the same way as "from bad to worse," which as the wording suggests means going from an unpleasant situation to one even more so - or it can describe the belief that one has escaped a dangerous or troublesome situation, when in actual fact they have entered an even worse one
- peter pan
- A man who never seems to become older or grow up. The name comes from the main character in the play Peter Pan (1904) by J. M. Barrie. Peter Pan is a young boy who never grows up, but lives in a magic place called Never-Never Land and can fly
He is considered to be the Peter Pan of the music business.
- sheet pan
- Sheet pans or baking trays (mainly UK) are flat, rectangular metal pans used in an oven. They are primarily used for baking of flat products such as cookies, sheet cakes and jelly roll cakes
- panned
- past of pan
- panning
- A shooting technique where the subject is followed during exposure; generally done with a slow shutter speed
- panning
- Operation that consists of separating heavier minerals such as gold and sulphides from lighter metals in stream sediment, loose soil or crushed rock in a container shaped like a frying pan In arid countries a similar operation, winnowing, can be performed without water
- panning
- camera stays in one place on mounting but is turned horizontally to the left or right
- panning
- Panning refers to the volume at which a sound is played out of two separate speakers If the sound coming out of one speaker is louder than the other then the sound will seem to be closer to that speaker
- panning
- In replacement window work, the outside aluminum trim that can extend around the perimeter of the window opening; used to cover up the old window material Panning can be installed in the opening before the window, or can be attached directly to the window before installation
- panning
- The movement of a user-defined window to a desired location on a computer monitor srceen using a pointing device such as a mouse
- panning
- Washing sand or gravel in a pan to separate heavy metal from it, especially gold
- panning
- (n ) In computer graphics, the process of moving the viewpoint of a graphic up, down, and sideways across the screen to show different perspectives
- panning
- A technique used to position sounds in a stereo mix
- panning
- present participle of pan
- panning
- {i} horizontal movement in an image display or capture; use of camera for scanning a subject in a horizontal position (video technology); act of moving a video camera from one side to the other to capture a panoramic view; use of plastic plates or surfaces covered with antigen or antibody to separate or select particular cells with suitable receptors (Medicine)
- panning
- The term used to describe the action of placing or mixing sounds in the left or right channels during stereo playback All mixers feature a pan knob for adjusting the stereo playback parameters of an audio clip
- panning
- - A photography technique in which the camera follows a moving subject Done correctly, the subject is sharp and clear, while the background is blurred, giving a sense of motion to the photo
- panning
- Swinging the comera horizontally in a smooth arc to follow a moving subject If the shutter is released during panning the subject records sharply against blurred image of static surroundings
- panning
- Refers to following a subject with the camera and keeping it in the same position in the viewfinder as it moves across the field of view Using a slow shutter speed and moving the camera in a steady pan can help keep the subject relatively sharp, while the background becomes a blur, emphasizing speed and movement
- panning
- Scrolling a view over the design plane
- panning
- The process of controlling the relative position of a sound in a stereo field during mixdown or recording using a pan-pot Usually this is not completely effective as the pan-pot alters only the relative amplitude of the sound left to right and not the crucial time aspect
- panning
- To move an audio signal from one output to the other Panning a sound between two speakers changes the apparent position of the sound
- panning
- Moving the camera so that the image of a moving object remains in the same relative position in the viewfinder as you take a picture
- panning
- Moving the sound around between speakers It also can be used to mean the position the sound is between the speakers