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pan

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What does pan mean?

noun

  1. A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
  2. The contents of such a receptacle.
  3. A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
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noun

  1. A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
  2. A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
  3. A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
  4. A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
  5. Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
  6. Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
  7. Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
  8. Strong adverse criticism.
  9. A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
  10. A bedpan.
  11. (slang) A human face, a mug.
  12. The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
  13. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
  14. The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
  15. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
  16. (figuratively) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
  17. A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
  18. Ellipsis of steelpan.
  19. A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
  20. Alternative form of paan.
  21. A part; a portion.
  22. The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
  23. A leaf of gold or silver.
  24. (informal) Clipping of pantograph.
  25. Ellipsis of Peter Pan.
  26. Acronym of personal area network.
  27. Acronym of primary account number.
  28. Initialism of peroxyacetyl nitrate.
  29. Initialism of phenylacetonitrile.
  30. Initialism of polyacrylonitrile.
  31. (obsolete) Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
  32. (obsolete) The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.

verb

  1. To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
  2. To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
  3. To turn out well; to be successful.
  4. (informal) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
  5. (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
  6. To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
  7. To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
  8. To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
  9. (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
  10. To join or fit together; to unite.

adjective

  1. (informal) Pansexual or panromantic.

proper noun

  1. Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes.
  2. An inner moon of the planet Saturn, notable for its equatorial ridge.
  3. A surname.
  4. A suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5088).
  5. Abbreviation of Proto-Austronesian.
  6. (obsolete, slang) The workhouse in St Pancras, London.
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She started up with a cry, and saw the boy, and somehow she knew at once that he was Peter Pan.
J. M. (James Matthew) BarriePeter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy]Project Gutenberg ebook #16
Marie took out a pan of delicate little rolls, stuffed with stewed apricots, and began to dust them over with powdered sugar.
Willa CatherO Pioneers!Project Gutenberg ebook #24
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The remainders, being cut into lengths and split open, were tossed into the pan, which began hissing and crackling over the fire.
Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativeProject Gutenberg ebook #122
I place the corpse on the sand of a pan, with a wire gauze cover, and leave events to take their course.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
In the Nahua language pan, or pani, signifies "equality to that which is above," and Pentecatl was the progenitor of all beings.
Ignatius DonnellyAtlantis: The Antedeluvian WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #4032