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The definition of a pan is a container used for cooking. It can also refer to a certain amount of an item which a pan will hold.

(noun)

An example of a pan is a cooking pot used for frying eggs.
An example of a pan is a cooking pot full of water.

Pan is defined as all.

(prefix)

An example of pan is panhuman which refers to all of humanity.

To pan is to criticize someone harshly or to movie a video camera back and forth.

(verb)

An example of pan is when a movie critic gives a movie two thumbs down.
An example of pan is when you are filming a movie and you move the video camera from side to side to capture the whole screen.

See pan in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

any of many kinds of containers, usually broad, shallow, without a cover, and made of metal, used for domestic purposes: often in combination: a frying pan, saucepan, dishpan
any object or part shaped like a pan; specif.,
1. ☆ an open container for washing out gold, tin, etc. from gravel or the like, in mining
2. either receptacle in a pair of scales
3. a container for heating, evaporating, etc.
the amount a pan will hold
any area suggestive of a pan; esp., a hollow, natural or artificial depression in the ground
a layer of hard soil, impervious to water; hardpan
a small ice floe
the part of a flintlock gun that holds the firing powder
☆ Slang a face

Origin: ME panne < OE, akin to Ger pfanne, early Gmc loanword < VL panna, prob. < L patina, a pan: see patella

transitive verb panned, panning

to cook in a pan
☆ Informal to criticize unfavorably, as in reviewing: to pan a play
☆ Mining
1. to wash (gravel, etc.) in a pan, as for separating gold
2. to separate (gold, etc.) from gravel by washing it in a pan

intransitive verb

☆ to wash gravel in a pan, searching for gold
☆ to yield gold in this process

noun

a leaf of the betel pepper
a substance made of this leaf, betel nut, lime, and spices, used like chewing gum

Origin: Hindi pān < Sans parṇa, a leaf, feather: see fern

transitive verb, intransitive verb panned, panning

to rotate (a camera) horizontally, as to get a panoramic effect or follow a moving object

Origin: < pan(orama)

noun

the act of panning
a shot that is panned

noun

Gr. Myth. a god of fields, forests, wild animals, flocks, and shepherds, represented as having the legs (and, sometimes, horns and ears) of a goat: identified with the Roman Faunus

Origin: L < Gr

Panama

peroxyacetyl nitrate

all: panchromatic, pantheism
1. of, comprising, embracing, or common to all or every: Pan-American
2. the cooperation, unity, or union of all members of (a specified nationality, race, church, etc.): Pan-Americanism
Med. whole, general; of all or many parts: panarteritis

Origin: < Gr pan, neut. of pas, all, every, universal < IE base *eu-, a swelling, arch > L cavus, hollow

See pan in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A shallow, wide, open container, usually of metal and without a lid, used for holding liquids, cooking, and other domestic purposes.
A vessel similar in form to a pan, especially:
a. An open metal dish used to separate gold or other metal from gravel or waste by washing.
b. Either of the receptacles on a balance or pair of scales.
c. A vessel used for boiling and evaporating liquids.
a. A basin or depression in the earth, often containing mud or water.
b. A natural or artificial basin used to obtain salt by evaporating brine.
c. Hardpan.
A freely floating piece of ice that has broken off a larger floe.
The small cavity in the lock of a flintlock used to hold powder.
Music A steel drum.
Slang The face.
Informal Severe criticism, especially a negative review: gave the film a pan.

verb panned panned, pan·ning, pans

verb, transitive

To wash (gravel, for example) in a pan for gold or other precious metal.
To cook (food) in a pan: panned the fish right after catching it.
Informal To criticize or review harshly.

verb, intransitive

To wash gravel, sand, or other sediment in a pan.
To yield gold as a result of washing in a pan.

Phrasal Verb: pan out To turn out well; be successful: “If I don't pan out as an actor I can still go back to school” (Saul Bellow).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old English panne

Origin: , from West Germanic *panna

Origin: , probably from Vulgar Latin *patna

Origin: , from Latin patina, shallow pan, platter

Origin: , from Greek patanē; see petə- in Indo-European roots

noun

A leaf of the betel vine.
A chewing preparation of this leaf with betel nuts, spices, and lime, used in the Far East.

Origin:

Origin: Hindi pān

Origin: , from Sanskrit parṇam, feather, betel leaf; see per-² in Indo-European roots

verb panned panned, pan·ning, pans

verb, intransitive

To move a movie or television camera to follow an object or create a panoramic effect.

verb, transitive

To move (a camera) so as to follow a moving object or create a panoramic effect.

Origin:

Origin: Short for panorama

Origin: or panoramic

noun

Greek Mythology The god of woods, fields, and flocks, having a human torso and head with a goat's legs, horns, and ears.
The satellite of Saturn that is closest to the planet.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Latin Pān

Origin: , from Greek

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