What's the difference between pan and tan?

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.

Tan


Definition:

  • (a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
  • (n.) See Picul.
  • (n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
  • (n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
  • (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
  • (n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
  • (n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
  • (v. i.) To get or become tanned.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
  • (2) In t(7;9)(q34;q34.3) translocations from three cases of T-ALL, the breakpoints occur within 100 bp of an intron in TAN-1, resulting in truncation of TAN-1 transcripts.
  • (3) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
  • (4) Both internalized and cellularly enveloped hexamethylenediisocyanate-tanned dermal sheep collagen degraded by the detachment of fibrils.
  • (5) This demonstrates that a UVA tan provides photoprotection against acute UVA exposure.
  • (6) In this study the efficacy of preserving microvascular heterografts with glutaraldehyde tanning was investigated.
  • (7) A comparative study of tanned cell hemagglutination (TCH) and counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE), two easy and reliable methodes for the routine detection of antibodies against nuclear antigens was performed.
  • (8) Mackay confirmed following Saturday's 2-1 defeat by Newcastle United that a resolution had been reached over the issue but Cardiff's players are reportedly no longer happy for Tan to be in the dressing room on match days.
  • (9) Reversible binding of BAN and TAN had Ki values of 1 x 10(-9) and 1 x 10(-10) M, respectively as determined by log probit plots.
  • (10) These findings are relevant to the risk-benefit analysis of sunscreen preparations, especially in skin type II, as they provide evidence that a 5-methoxypsoralen-induced tan is protective against the DNA-damaging effects of solar UV radiation, and thus has the potential to reduce the carcinogenic risk of exposure to such radiation.
  • (11) Modified human umbilical vein allografts tanned with glutaraldehyde and encased in a polyester mesh were used as arterial substitutes in 13 femoropopliteal reconstructive procedures.
  • (12) Patients with polymorphic light eruption who intend to obtain a tan by sunbathing should not, therefore, be treated with sunscreens which may worsen their rash, but should be advised to sunbathe without sunscreens for a shorter time.
  • (13) At higher concentrations, O2 and TAN sensitize the fast-stage damage by a fixation reaction that competes with its repair; in contrast, misonidazole appears mainly to operate by reaction with an earlier, ever shorter form of oxygen-dependent damage.
  • (14) I asked if they had a black baby face, and my mother even asked if they had a “tan” baby (since my husband is white and our child will be biracial), but the sales woman told me that their babies only came in black and white.
  • (15) The potency and selectivity of D,L-4-(3,4-dichloro-benzoyl-amino)-5-(dipentyl-amino)-5-oxo-pen tan oic acid (CR 1409) as a cholecystokinin (CCK) antagonist was investigated on motor responses of the longitudinal and circular muscles of the guinea-pig isolated ileum.
  • (16) This article examines the indoor tanning industry, the effects of ultraviolet-A radiation, and public education.
  • (17) The foal with acute disease had distinct green-tan focal necrosis and thickened mucosa of the large intestine.
  • (18) The carcinogenic effect of 3 commercially available ultraviolet A (UVA) tanning sources was studied in lightly pigmented hairless mice.
  • (19) All tumors occurred as solitary, soft to firm, solid, tan, and ulcerated masses in the digits of dogs aged 11 to 15 years.
  • (20) Anti-hTG titers far below those detected by the tanned-red cell hemagglutination test had very large effects, to the point where measurements of hTG could not be made, when a cross-reactive precipitating antiserum was used.

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