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panning
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room" wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals [syn: pan out , pan off ] express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance" [syn: tear apart , trash ] [also: ...
Wikipedia
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In cinematography, panning refers to rotating or pivoting a motion picture or video camera horizontally from a fixed position. This motion is similar to the motion a person makes when she turns her head on her neck from left to right. In the resulting image, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
panning \pan"ning\, n. 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; as, panning for gold. See pan[1], v. t. and pan[1], ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of one who pans, as for gold. 2 Material that has been panned. 3 (context audio English) The act by which a sound is panned. 4 (cx informal English) Thorough criticism. vb. (present participle of pan English)
Usage examples of panning.
She and James had done well in California, not from panning gold but from selling beef to the prospectors in the blossoming gold rush towns.
As he looked through the telephoto lens of the viewfinder, he moved the camera from the portico, sweeping across the facade of the cathedral, then panning across the crowd of tourists and pilgrims, as if capturing the entire scene on video, an amateur cinematographer.
Over to the side, Daniel, who, like me, was oblivious to anything that could not be seen through the camera lens, kept right on filming, panning across the back of the ahu, not noticing the absolute chaos just to his left.
Alan was barely on his feet when he saw Adrienne in the middle of the dirt track, a minicam in place of a head, slowly panning even as the guns roared.
College of Cardinals, and the BBC camerawoman instinctively followed, panning the crowd.
The camerlegno motioned out over the College of Cardinals, and the BBC camerawoman instinctively followed, panning the crowd.
It was partly a matter of plain old taste: ad-critics argued that the NoCoat spots were equivalent to like Preparation H filming a procto-exam, or a Depend Adult Undergarment camera panning for floor-puddles at a church social.
More shots, panning, terrified faces, more blood, black and smeared by the imperfections of the broadcast medium.
Emma watched the Cruithne landscape slide past the firefly's panning camera lens.
He went on to tell that a prospector named George Washington Carmack, along with two Indians named Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie, found the gold nugget that started it all while panning for gold at the junction of the Yukon and Klondike rivers on August 17, 1896.
A green crab was ensconced on the moist sand by his feet, using one claw to shove food into its mouthparts like a miner panning for gold.
He had found one of the richest placers in Colorado history, and he kept that, fact to himself, panning the gravel and secreting the nuggets, because in California he had learned that when a man found a placer, the trick was to locate the vein which threw off the nuggets, for the nuggets were valuable today, but the vein existed forever.
Two, you're sitting in the heart of Colorado mining country, and since I have a raving fetish for prospecting, I took the liberty of stopping over in hopes of getting in a little gold panning before continuing on to my lecture.
It was all right when you amused yourself by praising some horrible abortion of Grandpaw Holcombe's or panning the pants off your own father and that pretty butcher's-calendar boy that he's got himself for a partner.
We tinners grew up panning for tin before the big mines took over everything.