pan

noun29

1. •
   a wide, low dish used in the kitchen, mostly for cooking
2. •
   A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
3. •
   (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
4. •
   A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
5. •
   A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
6. •
   Strong adverse criticism.

   • The notices The Gallery received, while hardly pans, were only mixed. — 1977
7. •
   The contents of such a receptacle.
8. •
   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. — 2013
9. •
   The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
10. •
    An expanse of level land located in a depression.
11. •
    A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
12. •
    (South-Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
13. •
    (South-Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
14. •
    Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
15. •
    Ellipsis 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. — 2009
16. •
    A bedpan.

    • She yanks the pan out from under me & it spills all over the bed. Then she's got to change the sheets! Unreal. — 1977
17. •
    (Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
18. •
    (slang) A human face, a mug.

    • "He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan." — 1946
19. •
    The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
20. •
    Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
21. •
    (figurative) The 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."
22. •
    The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
23. •
    (informal) Clipping of pantograph.
24. •
    A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
25. •
    A part; a portion.
26. •
    A leaf of gold or silver.
27. •
    The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
28. •
    (no longer used) The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
29. •
    (South-Africa, no longer used) Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.

verb10

1. •
   To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
2. •
   (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. — 2018
3. •
   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.
4. •
   To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
5. •
   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. — 1875
6. •
   To turn out well; to be successful.
7. •
   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.
8. •
   (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
9. •
   (informal) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
10. •
    To join or fit together; to unite.

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

adjective1

1. •
   (informal) Pansexual 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. — 2012

noun5

1. •
   Acronym of primary account number.
2. •
   Acronym of personal area network.
3. •
   Initialism of peroxyacetyl nitrate.
4. •
   Initialism of polyacrylonitrile.
5. •
   Initialism of phenylacetonitrile.

noun1

1. •
   Ellipsis of Peter Pan.