pan
IPA: pˈæn
Root Word: Pan
noun
- (Greek mythology) Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus.
- (astronomy) An inner moon of the planet Saturn, notable for its equatorial ridge.
- A surname.
- A suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5088).
- (UK, slang, obsolete) The workhouse in St Pancras, London.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (geography, geology) 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.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (geology, obsolete South Africa) Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- A loaf of bread.
- (obsolete) The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
- A bedpan.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- (firearms) The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- A part; a portion.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- Ellipsis of Peter Pan. [A man who acts as a child and does not accept the responsibilities of adulthood.]
- (linguistics) Abbreviation of Proto-Austronesian. [A proposed common ancestor to the group of Austronesian languages comprising Malayo-Polynesian and Formosan languages.]
- Acronym of primary account number.
- Acronym of personal area network. [A wireless communications network, intended for devices within a small room or cubicle.]
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyacrylonitrile. [(organic chemistry) Any polymer or copolymer of acrylonitrile; they are mostly resins that are used to make fibers for fabrics]
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of peroxyacetyl nitrate. [An urban air pollutant formed photochemically in the air as part of photochemical smog.]
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of phenylacetonitrile.
- Short for salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water. [Synonym of salt flat: a natural dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant salt.]
- (geology) Short for hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans. [A distinct layer of soil that is largely impervious to water.]
- (music) Short for steelpan. [(music, countable) A percussion instrument consisting of a drum made of steel, originally from Trinidad.]
- Alternative form of paan [A psychoactive preparation of betel leaf combined with areca nut and/or cured tobacco, chewed recreationally in Asia; such a preparation served wrapped in the leaf.]
- (rail transport, informal) Short for pantograph. [A mechanical linkage based on parallelograms causing two objects to move in parallel; notably as a drawing aid.]
verb
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (intransitive, of a camera, etc.) To turn horizontally.
- (intransitive, photography) 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 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (intransitive, imaging) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- (audio) 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.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
adjective
- (informal) Pansexual or panromantic.
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Examples of "pan" in Sentences
- Surely Pan is the name of the faun.
- But the faun isn't supposed to be Pan.
- Gavallan is an aspirant to the office of tai pan.
- Some in the media panned the writing as amateurish.
- However the event was universally panned by the critics.
- The bacon is then removed, but the fat retained in the pan.
- A pan sauce is a type of sauce that is often made to accompany sauteed meats.
- Set baking pan on a wire rack and poke holes all over top of cake with skewer.
- Place a serving plate over the cake pan and invert so that the pan is on top of the serving plate.