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Antonyms for panning out

Grammar : Verb
Spell : pan
Phonetic Transcription : pæn


Definition of panning 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 :
  • "This is panning out first rate," I said, with less emotion.
  • Extract from : « How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion » by George W. Peck
  • The bosses had only remained until the gold was panning out well, then they sent for experts to come and value the entire mine.
  • Extract from : « The Blue Birds' Winter Nest » by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
  • The silver mine is panning out big and she will be a very rich girl by the time she comes of age.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • I'm panning out about this, because it seems so deuced interesting and I should like to know what you and Barbara think.
  • Extract from : « Jaffery » by William J. Locke
  • Alfred Cayley disappeared into one of the upper galleries, to see how they were panning out.
  • Extract from : « Adventures in Many Lands » by Various
  • "I hear that your famous Rainbow gold mine is panning out," the young man had remarked carelessly.
  • Extract from : « The Ranch Girls at Home Again » by Margaret Vandercook
  • Pardon this tone of irritation, but I hate altering a story after once panning out the plot.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 9, 1893 » by Various
  • In spite of herself, in spite of her love for the new love, she finds he is not panning out as she supposed.
  • Extract from : « Happiness and Marriage » by Elizabeth (Jones) Towne
  • The bucking game was not panning out and the ball was passed back to the giant fullback, Livingston, for a kick.
  • Extract from : « Bert Wilson on the Gridiron » by J. W. Duffield
  • That would ha' made him more wideawake, instead of so cocksure that all was panning out as he wished.
  • Extract from : « Indian and Scout » by F. S. Brereton

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