Panning

Word PANNING
Character 7
Hyphenation pan ning
Pronunciations /ˈpænɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Panning"

What do we mean by panning?

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

To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely.

With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful.

(of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.

To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.)

Synonyms and Antonyms for Panning

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The word "panning" in example sentences

Then we go into final shaping, "panning" -- which means putting the shaped loaf on a pan. ❋ Peter Reinhart (2008)

I call it panning for gold – most of it's dirt, but you'll get the odd nugget. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Today with the price of gold soaring and the economy falling, the idea of panning, digging or diving for precious metal has become serious business. ❋ Bill Crider (2009)

Streams and rivers are threatened by gold panning, which is widely practiced. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He calls the panning of Yellow Dog "souring" and likens it to "having flu for a week". ❋ Unknown (2010)

By tracking a moving subject, called panning, the subject stays in focus while the background is blurred. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's bad enough that Tazo Lotus is not the best tasting or most distinctive tea in the world, but to have so many wasteful options ... sometimes I try to clarify that a panning is the packaging, not the product. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm not blazin on you (old people alert = blazin is young person term for picking on you, ya know "panning") but hey man NICE photos, esp the waterfall! did you camp? on the river? pretty cool! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nothing would do but that the California process of "panning" must be carried out in these Peruvian waters, and the peons, _multum reluctantes, _ were summoned to the task, with all the crow-bars and shovels possessed by the expedition, supplemented by certain sauce-pans and dishes hypothecated from the culinary department. ❋ Various (N/A)

That evening we all mingled freely with the miners, and witnessed the process of cleaning up and "panning" out, which is the last process for separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand. ❋ David Widger (N/A)

On the seventy-ninth day, ragged, swarthy, bearded like Forty-niners, with only a handful of flour and a lump of bacon left in our kit we came down to the Third Fork of the Stickeen River, without a flake of gold to show for our "panning" the sands along our way. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

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