Pan vs. Tilt — What's the Difference?

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.

Move or cause to move into a sloping position

Criticize severely

(in jousting) thrust at with a lance or other weapon

Wash gravel in a pan to separate out (gold)

A sloping position or movement

Swing (a video or film camera) in a horizontal or vertical plane, typically to give a panoramic effect or follow a subject

A combat for exercise or sport between two men on horseback with lances; a joust.

A shallow, wide, open container, usually of metal and without a lid, used for holding liquids, cooking, and other domestic purposes.

A small hut in a forest.

An open metal dish used to separate gold, other precious metals, or gemstones from gravel or waste by washing.

To cause to slope, as by raising one end; incline

Either of the receptacles on a balance or pair of scales.

To cause to be advantageous to one party rather than another

A vessel used for boiling and evaporating liquids.

To aim or thrust (a lance) in a joust.

A basin or depression in the earth, often containing mud or water.

To charge (an opponent); attack.

A natural or artificial basin used to obtain salt by evaporating brine.

To forge with a tilt hammer.

Hardpan.

To slope; incline

A freely floating piece of ice that has broken off a larger floe.

To have a preference, favor, or be inclined toward something

The small cavity in the lock of a flintlock used to hold powder.

To be advantageous to one side over another, as in a dispute

(Music) A steel drum.

To fight with lances; joust.

(Slang) The face.

To engage in a combat or struggle; fight

(Informal) Severe criticism, especially a negative review

To cover (a vehicle) with a canopy or an awning.

Variant of paan.

The act of tilting or the condition of being tilted.

A pivoting movement of a movie camera.

An inclination from the horizontal or vertical; a slant

Peroxyacetyl nitrate

A sloping surface, as of the ground.

Greek Mythology The god of woods, fields, and flocks, having a human torso and head with a goat's legs, horns, and ears.

A tendency to favor one side in a dispute

To wash (gravel, for example) in a pan to separate out gold, other precious metals, or gemstones.

A preference, inclination, or bias

To cook (food) in a pan

A medieval sport in which two mounted knights with lances charged together and attempted to unhorse one another.

(Informal) To criticize or review harshly.

A thrust or blow with a lance.

To wash gravel, sand, or other sediment in a pan.

A combat, especially a verbal one; a debate.

To yield gold as a result of washing in a pan.

A tilt hammer.

To pivot a movie camera along a horizontal plane in order to follow an object or create a panoramic effect.

New England See seesaw.

To pivot (a movie camera) in a specified direction.

A canopy or an awning for a boat, wagon, or cart.

A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.

(transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.

The contents of such a receptacle.

(intransitive) To be at an angle.

A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.

To charge (at someone) with a lance.

(Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.

(transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.

A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.

(transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).

An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially

To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.

To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.

A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.

To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).

(South Africa) playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.

(transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.

A slope or inclination.

(geology) nodot=a: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.

The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.

Syn of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.

(photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.

Strong adverse criticism.

A jousting contest. (countable)

A loaf of bread.

An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.

The chamber pot in a close stool; the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.

A thrust, as with a lance.

(slang) A human face, a mug.

A tilt hammer.

(roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.

A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.

A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.

Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.

(firearms) The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.

A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.

The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

(figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.

A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.

(carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

A thrust, as with a lance.

(musical instrument) steelpan

A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.

A part; a portion.

See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.

(fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

A leaf of gold or silver.

To cover with a tilt, or awning.

(transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).

To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

(transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)

To point or thrust, as a lance.

To turn out well; to be successful.

To point or thrust a weapon at.

To beat one's opposition convincingly.

To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

To turn horizontally.

To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.

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 lean; to fall partly over; to tip.

To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.

A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances

(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.

A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement;

To join or fit together; to unite.

A slight but noticeable partiality;

(informal) Pansexual or panromantic.

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical;

A part; a portion.

Pitching dangerously to one side

The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

To incline or bend from a vertical position;

A leaf of gold or silver.

Heel over;

The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See Betel.

Move sideways or in an unsteady way;

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.

Charge with a tilt

A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.

The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.

The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.

A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.

A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.

To join or fit together; to unite.

To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.

To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly.

To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; - usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.

To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.

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.

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.

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

Shallow container made of metal

Chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids

Make a sweeping movement;

Wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals

Express a totally negative opinion of;