Bi vs. Pan
Biadjective
Bisexual.
âI'm straight, but my oldest sister is bi.â;
Pannoun
A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
Binoun
A bisexual person.
Pannoun
The contents of such a receptacle.
Binoun
A type of jade disk produced in ancient China.
Pannoun
A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
Binoun
a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals
Pannoun
(Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
Pannoun
A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
Pannoun
(geography) a specific type of lake, natural depression or basin. They are sometimes associated with desert areas.
Pannoun
Strong adverse criticism.
Pannoun
A loaf of bread.
Pannoun
The chamber pot in a close stool; the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
Pannoun
(slang) A human face, a mug.
Pannoun
(roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
Pannoun
A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
Pannoun
The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
Pannoun
The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
Pannoun
(figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect
Pannoun
(carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
Pannoun
The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil; hardpan.
Pannoun
A part; a portion.
Pannoun
(fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
Pannoun
A leaf of gold or silver.
Panverb
(transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
Panverb
(transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely.
Panverb
(intransitive) With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful.
Panverb
To beat one's opposition convincingly.
Panverb
(informal) To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.)
Panverb
(intransitive) Of a camera, etc.: to turn horizontally.
Panverb
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.
Panverb
(audio) 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.
Panverb
To join or fit together; to unite.
Panadjective
(informal) Pansexual.
Pannoun
A part; a portion.
Pannoun
The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
Pannoun
A leaf of gold or silver.
Pannoun
The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See Betel.
Pannoun
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.
Pannoun
A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
Pannoun
The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
Pannoun
The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
Pannoun
A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
Pannoun
The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
Pannoun
A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
Panverb
To join or fit together; to unite.
Panverb
To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
âWe . . . witnessed the process of cleaning up and panning out, which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand.â;
Panverb
To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly.
Panverb
To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; - usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
Panverb
To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
Panverb
To scan (a movie camera), usu. in a horizontal direction, to obtain a panoramic effect; also, to move the camera so as to keep the subject in view.
Pan
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 (also called the pipes of Pan), which he is said to have invented.
Pannoun
cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
Pannoun
(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
Pannoun
shallow container made of metal
Pannoun
chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
Panverb
make a sweeping movement;
âThe camera panned across the roomâ;
Panverb
wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
Panverb
express a totally negative opinion of;
âThe critics panned the performanceâ;
Pannoun
a god of flocks and herds, typically represented with the horns, ears, and legs of a goat on a man's body. His sudden appearance was supposed to cause terror similar to that of a frightened and stampeding herd, and the word panic is derived from his name.
Panverb
criticize severely
âthe movie was panned by the criticsâ;
Panverb
wash gravel in a pan to separate out (gold)
âprospectors panned for gold in the Yukonâ; âthe old-timers panned goldâ;
Panverb
(of gravel) yield gold.
Panverb
swing (a video or film camera) in a horizontal or vertical plane, typically to give a panoramic effect or follow a subject
âhe was panning the camera over everything in sightâ;
Panverb
(of a camera) be swung in a horizontal or vertical plane
âthe camera panned to the dead dictatorâ;
