pan

noun

1. 1

   A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.

2. 2

   The contents of such a receptacle.

3. 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.

4. 4

   A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.

5. 5

   A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.

6. 6

   An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.

7. 7

   An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.

8. 8

   An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.

9. 9

   obsoleteSynonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.

10. 10

    Strong adverse criticism.

    The notices The Gallery received, while hardly pans, were only mixed.

11. 11

    A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.

12. 12

    obsoleteThe chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.

13. 13

    A bedpan.

    1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure She yanks the pan out from under me & it spills all over the bed. Then she's got to change the sheets! Unreal.

14. 14

    slangA human face, a mug.

    "He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan."

    Dave and I have parted company, and I hope I never see his junky pan again.

    This was the kind of operator who would tell you to be there at nine sharp and if you weren't sitting quietly with a pleased smile on your pan when he floated in two hours later on a double Gibson, he would have a paroxysm of outraged executive ability […].

15. 15

    The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.

16. 16

    A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.

17. 17

    The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.

    Holonym: firearm

    flash in the pan

    […] he pull’d the Trigger, but Providence being pleas’d to preserve me for some other Purpose, the Cock snapp’d, and miss’d Fire. Whether the Prime was wet in the Pan, or by what other Miracle it was I escap’d his Fury, I cannot say […]

    And he […] glared on the cold pistols that hung before him—ready for anything. And he took down one with a snatch and weighed it in his hand, and fell to thinking again; and, as he did, kept opening and shutting the pan with a snap, […]

18. 18

    The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.

19. 19

    figurativeThe brain, seen as one's intellect.

    14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Friar's Tale, Unto the devil rough and black of hue Give I thy body and my pan also."

20. 20

    A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

21. 21

    Variant of salt panAn expanse of level land located in a depression, especially Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.

22. 22

    Variant of hardpanEllipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.

23. 23

    Variant of steelpanEllipsis of steelpan.

    The steel band transforms the people who play in it and dance to it, and fosters links between them. […] He learned to play the pan and filled in for absent members.

verb

1. 1

   To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).

   We […] witnessed the process of cleaning up and panning out, which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand.

2. 2

   To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)

   Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh in.

3. 3

   To turn out well; to be successful.

4. 4

   informalTo beat one's opposition convincingly.

verb

1. 1

   (of a camera) To turn horizontally.

   Later today in Finsbury Park, the cameras would spend hours panning across 35,000 festivalgoers in search of pickpockets, drunken brawlers, and other assorted agents of petty mischief.

2. 2

   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.

   As one can only "pan" at 90 deg. to the direction of movement of the subject, a compromise has to be reached when shooting at more conventional angles between a shutter speed high enough to arrest the forward movement of the subject and one low enough to blur the valve motion and wheels.

3. 3

   To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.

4. 4

   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.

5. 5

   (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.

noun

1. 1

   A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.

   For instance, in the film Dances with Wolves, a pan of an uninhabited landscape contrasts the gruesome beginning footage that depicts the carnage of war.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of paanAlternative form of paan.

verb

1. 1

   To join or fit together; to unite.

   31 May 1884, Leeds Mercury Pan it down—press an article into its proper place

   The plants can either be sold individually in the 3 inch pots as Valentine favors , or several may be panned together in larger pots

noun

1. 1

   A part; a portion.

2. 2

   The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

3. 3

   A leaf of gold or silver.

adjective

1. 1

   informalPansexual or panromantic.

   When she publicly acknowledged that she is pan, it educated citizens near and far on what that sexuality meant and the importance of being proud of who you are.

   Another anonymous pansexual disclosed, "Sometimes I feel really left out because I'm pan. […] "

   A similar experience is shared by individuals who identify their sexuality as pan, bi or queer.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of pantographinformalClipping of pantograph.

Forms

plural

pans, pen

past tense

panned

past participle

panned

present participle

panning

third person singular

pans