Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, especially gold-mining, metal (gold) obtained in the process of panning. See
pan , transitive verb, 1. - noun In tea manuf., treatment of the material in an iron vessel: in old Chinese practice, a light roasting of the leaf before and between rollings, now dispensed with in India
- noun in making green tea, a steaming of the fresh leaf in its own juices to wither it for rolling
- noun in Japan, same as
pan-firing .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process in which heavier ores are concentrated by agitating a sample of crushed ore under water in a shallow pan, thus washing away the lighter particles from the sample. See pan{1}, v. t. and pan{1}, v. i.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
pan .
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Examples
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Then we go into final shaping, "panning" -- which means putting the shaped loaf on a pan.
Peter Reinhart on bread Peter Reinhart 2008
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Then we go into final shaping, "panning" -- which means putting the shaped loaf on a pan.
Peter Reinhart on bread Peter Reinhart 2008
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Then we go into final shaping, "panning" -- which means putting the shaped loaf on a pan.
Peter Reinhart on bread Peter Reinhart 2008
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I call it panning for gold – most of it's dirt, but you'll get the odd nugget.
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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.
Archive 2009-03-22 Bill Crider 2009
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Streams and rivers are threatened by gold panning, which is widely practiced.
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He calls the panning of Yellow Dog "souring" and likens it to "having flu for a week".
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He calls the panning of Yellow Dog "souring" and likens it to "having flu for a week".
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He calls the panning of Yellow Dog "souring" and likens it to "having flu for a week".
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By tracking a moving subject, called panning, the subject stays in focus while the background is blurred.
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