Antonyms for pan out

Grammar : Verb

Spell : pan

Phonetic Transcription : pæn

Definition of pan out

Origin : Old English panne, earlier ponne (Mercian) "pan," from West Germanic *panna "pan" (cf. Old Norse panna, Old Frisian panne, Middle Dutch panne, Dutch pan, Old Low German panna, Old High German phanna, German pfanne), probably an early borrowing (4c. or 5c.) from Vulgar Latin *patna, from Latin patina "shallow pan, dish, stewpan," from Greek patane "plate, dish," from PIE *pet-ano-, from root *pete- "to spread" (see pace (n.)). Irish panna probably is from English, and Lithuanian pana is from German.
Used of pan-shaped parts of mechanical apparatus from c.1590; hence flash in the pan, a figurative use from early firearms, where a pan held the priming (and the gunpowder might "flash," but no shot ensue). To go out of the (frying) pan into the fire is first found in Spenser (1596).

verb come to pass; succeed

Example sentences :

That flashlight business is going to pan out just great, I can see.
Extract from : « Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys » by Silas K. Boone

They have to pan out what they get, and it hurts their tender hands.
Extract from : « Strictly Business » by O. Henry

I'm willin' to gamble those claims of his'll pan out some day.
Extract from : « Rimrock Trail » by J. Allan Dunn

You just couldn't tell ahead of time that a thing wasn't going to pan out.
Extract from : « The Great Gray Plague » by Raymond F. Jones

All he has to do is to go to some lease and pan out breakfast money.
Extract from : « My Adventures with Your Money » by George Graham Rice

This will conduct the water from the pan out onto the cloth.
Extract from : « Mechanical Devices in the Home » by Edith Louise Allen

Not here; but the passengers may pan out well if we run 'em through the mill.
Extract from : « Deadwood Dick Jr. Branded » by Ed. L. Wheeler

She slipped the pan out from under the sheets, and put it into a compartment of the cart.
Extract from : « A Woman's Place » by Mark Irvin Clifton

How does that pan out for a lovely bit of feminine consistency?
Extract from : « A Veldt Official » by Bertram Mitford

We newspaper men have them, you know, and once in a while they pan out.
Extract from : « The Gray Phantom's Return » by Herman Landon

Synonyms for pan out

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