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[1] a broad, shallow container of metal, usually having sides flaring outward toward the top, used in various forms for frying, baking, washing, etc.
[2] any similar receptacle or part, as the scales of a balance.
[3] the amount a pan holds or can hold; panful: a pan of shelled peas.
[4] any of various open or closed containers used in industrial or mechanical processes.
[5] a container in which silver ores are ground and amalgamated.
[6] a container in which gold or other heavy, valuable metals are separated from gravel or other substances by agitation with water.
[7] a drifting piece of flat, thin ice, as formed on a shore or bay.
[8] a natural depression in the ground, as one containing water, mud, or mineral salts.
[9] a similar depression made artificially, as for evaporating salt water to make salt.
[10] (in old guns) the depressed part of the lock, holding the priming.
[11] Also panning. an unfavorable review, critique, or appraisal: The show got one rave and three pans.
[12] Slang . the face.
[13] Informal . to criticize severely, as in a review of a play.
[14] to wash (gravel, sand, etc.) in a pan to separate gold or other heavy valuable metal.
[15] to cook (oysters, clams, etc.) in a pan.
[16] to wash gravel, sand, etc., in a pan in seeking gold or the like.
[17] to yield gold or the like, as gravel washed in a pan.
[18] pan out , Informal . to turn out, especially successfully: The couple's reconciliation just didn't pan out.
[19] the leaf of the betel.
[20] a substance, especially betel nut or a betel-nut mixture, used for chewing.
[21] to photograph or televise while rotating a camera on its vertical or horizontal axis in order to keep a moving person or object in view or allow the film to record a panorama: to pan from one end of the playing field to the other during the opening of the football game.
[22] (of a camera) to be moved or manipulated in such a manner: The cameras panned occasionally during the scene.
[23] to move (a camera) in such a manner: to pan the camera across the scene.
[24] to photograph or televise (a scene, moving character, etc.) by panning the camera.
[25] the act of panning a camera.
[26] Also called panning shot. the filmed shot resulting from this.
[27] a major vertical division of a wall.
[28] a nogged panel of half-timber construction.
[29] panguingue.
[30] pan-pan.
[31] the ancient Greek god of forests, pastures, flocks, and shepherds, represented with the head, chest, and arms of a man and the legs and sometimes the horns and ears of a goat.
[32] an international distress signal used by shore stations to inform a ship, aircraft, etc., of something vital to its safety or to the safety of one of its passengers.
[33] Panama.
[34] a combining form meaning “all,” occurring originally in loanwords from Greek (panacea; panoply ), but now used freely as a general formative (panleukopenia; panorama; pantelegraph; pantheism; pantonality ), and especially in terms, formed at will, implying the union of all branches of a group (Pan-Christian; Panhellenic; Pan-Slavism ). The hyphen and the second capital tend with longer use to be lost, unless they are retained in order to set off clearly the component parts.
[35] a wide metal vessel used in cooking (in combination ) saucepan
[36] Also called: panful the amount such a vessel will hold
[37] any of various similar vessels used esp in industry, as for boiling liquids
[38] a dish used by prospectors, esp gold prospectors, for separating a valuable mineral from the gravel or earth containing it by washing and agitating
[39] either of the two dishlike receptacles on a balance
[40] Also called: lavatory pan British the bowl of a lavatory
[41] a natural or artificial depression in the ground where salt can be obtained by the evaporation of brine a natural depression containing water or mud
[42] Caribbean the indented top from an oil drum used as the treble drum in a steel band
[43] See hardpan, brainpan
[44] a small ice floe
[45] a slang word for face (def. 1a)
[46] a small cavity containing priming powder in the locks of old guns
[47] a hard substratum of soil
[48] short for pan loaf
[49] (when tr, often foll by off or out ) to wash (gravel) in a pan to separate particles of (valuable minerals) from it
[50] (intr often foll by out ) (of gravel) to yield valuable minerals by this process
[51] (tr) informal to criticize harshly the critics panned his new play
[52] to move (a film camera) or (of a film camera) to be moved so as to follow a moving object or obtain a panoramic effect
[53] the act of panning (as modifier ) a pan shot
[54] the leaf of the betel tree
[55] a preparation of this leaf which is chewed, together with betel nuts and lime, in India and the East Indies
[56] Greek myth the god of fields, woods, shepherds, and flocks, represented as a man with a goat's legs, horns, and ears Related adjectives: Pandean, Panic
[57] all or every panchromatic
[58] including or relating to all parts or members Pan-African ; pantheistic
[59] Panama

Words related to Pan

sheet, pot, kettle, bucket, saucepan, skillet, wash, scan, roast, vessel, casserole, pail, roaster, pannikin, traverse, separate, track, move, sweep, sift

Words nearby Pan

pampoen, pampootie, pamprodactylous, pamuk, pamyat, pan, pan american games, pan american union, pan and scan, pan and tilt head, pan gravy

Origin of Pan

-< Greek pan- combining form of pâs (neuter pân ) all, every, pân everything

Other words from Pan

pan·ner , noun

Word origin for Pan

-from Greek pan, neuter of pas all

Synonyms for Pan

bucket, frying pan, kettle, pot, saucepan, sheet, skillet, casserole, pail, pannikin, roaster, vessel, double boiler