panned

Verb (1)

pan (third-person singular simple present pans, present participle panning, simple past and past participle panned)

1. (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
   • We […] 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.1875, William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs
2. (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
   • Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh in.2022 May 17, Tiffany Hsu, “All Those Celebrities Pushing Crypto Are Not So Vocal Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms:

   admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, tilt, cannonade, slash, lash, blame, scorch

3. (intransitive, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
4. (informal, transitive) To beat one's opposition convincingly.

Verb (2)

pan (third-person singular simple present pans, present participle panning, simple past and past participle panned)

1. (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
   • Later today in Finsbury Park, the cameras would spend hours panning across 35,000 festivalgoers in search of pickpockets, drunken brawlers, and other assorted agents of petty mischief.2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just...
2. (intransitive) 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° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
   • As one can only "pan" at 90 deg. to the direction of movement of the subject, a compromise has to be reached when shooting at more conventional angles between a shutter speed high enough to arrest the forward movement of the subject and one low enough to blur the valve motion and wheels.1957 January, A. M. Ross, “Letters to the Editor: Impressions of Speed”, in Railway Magazine, page 60

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