What's the difference between pan and pay?

Pan


Definition:

  • (n.) A part; a portion.
  • (n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
  • (n.) A leaf of gold or silver.
  • (v. t. & i.) To join or fit together; to unite.
  • (n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
  • (n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.
  • (n.) A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.
  • (n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
  • (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
  • (n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
  • (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
  • (n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
  • (n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
  • (v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
  • (v. i.) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
  • (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
  • (2) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
  • (3) But I feel I'm being true to myself in the way my career has panned out and I'm making the correct decision here.
  • (4) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
  • (5) Effects of anti-human pan-T-specific monoclonal antibodies of the Second International Workshop on Human Leucocyte Differentiation Antigens were investigated in a number of lymphocyte functional tests.
  • (6) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
  • (7) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
  • (8) After Tuesday’s launch Pan told Xinhua the mission marked “a transition in China’s role ... from a follower in classic information technology (IT) development to one of the leaders guiding future IT achievements”.
  • (9) On days 70 and 94, both blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine (sCR) values in the vehicle-treated rats were significantly higher than those in normal rats (without treatment with PAN and PS).
  • (10) The buccal mucosa was the most common site of occurrence; 98.3% of these individuals had oral habits, with smoking alone or smoking in combination with "pan" or "supari" chewing accounting for 74.9% of the habit forms.
  • (11) Pour into a pan and reheat, diluting slightly if you prefer a thinner soup.
  • (12) 3 For the dough: melt the lard with 100ml water in a small pan and leave to cool slightly.
  • (13) These are pan-European issues requiring pan-European responses.
  • (14) These data were the empirical basis for a clinical definition of AIDS in adults drafted in a Caracas, Venezuela, workshop sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization.
  • (15) Lipoproteins isolated by 'Pan B' antibody were comparable in size and shape to the lipoproteins in native plasma and to the lipoproteins isolated by polyclonal antibodies or ultracentrifugation.
  • (16) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
  • (17) To find out if any stone tips were being used on spears any earlier than that, Wilkins examined sharp stones found at a site called Kathu Pan, in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
  • (18) A patient at the Wallington Family Practice in Surrey wrote: "Getting an appointment is like trying to pan for gold.
  • (19) In the normal bone marrow enriched by panning for CFU-E (8%) and depleted in progenitors of other lineages, blast cells showing characteristics similar to leukemic erythroid blasts were seen.
  • (20) Many other autoimmune diseases and autoantibodies were found in other family members not corresponding to HLA phenotypes, suggesting other non-HLA-linked genetic influences may be operative in predisposition to PAN.

Pay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
  • (v. t.) To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.
  • (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
  • (v. t.) To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).
  • (v. t.) To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
  • (v. t.) To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.
  • (v. i.) To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.
  • (n.) Satisfaction; content.
  • (n.) An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (3) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (4) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (5) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (6) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
  • (7) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
  • (8) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (9) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
  • (10) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
  • (11) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
  • (12) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
  • (13) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
  • (14) A microdissection of the orbital nerves of the cat was made paying particular attention to the accessory ciliary ganglion.
  • (15) The industry will pay a levy of £180m a year, or the equivalent of £10.50 a year on all household insurance policies.
  • (16) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
  • (17) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
  • (18) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
  • (19) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
  • (20) So fourth, we must tackle the issue of a relatively large number of officers kept on restricted duties, on full pay.

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