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Pan
(păn)n.
Greek Mythology The god of woods, fields, and flocks, having a human torso and head with a goat's legs, horns, and ears.
[Middle English, from Latin Pān, from Greek.]
PAN
n.
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pan 1
(păn)n.
1. A shallow, wide, open container, usually of metal and without a lid, used for holding liquids, cooking, and other domestic purposes.
2. A vessel similar in form to a pan, especially:
a. An open metal dish used to separate gold, other precious metals, or gemstones 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.
3.
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.
4. A freely floating piece of ice that has broken off a larger floe.
5. The small cavity in the lock of a flintlock used to hold powder.
6. Music A steel drum.
7. Slang The face.
8. Informal Severe criticism, especially a negative review: gave the film a pan.
v. panned, pan·ning, pans
v.tr.
1. To wash (gravel, for example) in a pan to separate out gold, other precious metals, or gemstones.
2. To cook (food) in a pan: panned the fish right after catching it.
3. Informal To criticize or review harshly.
v.intr.
Phrasal Verb: 1. To wash gravel, sand, or other sediment in a pan.
2. To yield gold as a result of washing in a pan.
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).
[Middle English, from Old English panne, from West Germanic *panna, probably from Vulgar Latin *patna, from Latin patina, shallow pan, platter, from Greek patanē; see petə- in Indo-European roots.]
pan 2
(pän)n.
Variant of paan.
pan 3
(păn)v. panned, pan·ning, pans
v.intr.
To pivot a movie camera along a horizontal plane in order to follow an object or create a panoramic effect.
v.tr.
To pivot (a movie camera) in a specified direction.
n.
A pivoting movement of a movie camera.
[Short for panorama or panoramic.]
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pan
(pæn)n
1. (Cookery)
a. a wide metal vessel used in cooking
b. (in combination): saucepan.
2. Also called: panful the amount such a vessel will hold
3. any of various similar vessels used esp in industry, as for boiling liquids
4. (Mining & Quarrying) a dish used by prospectors, esp gold prospectors, for separating a valuable mineral from the gravel or earth containing it by washing and agitating
5. (Chemistry) either of the two dishlike receptacles on a balance
6. Also called: lavatory pan Brit the bowl of a lavatory
7. (Physical Geography)
a. a natural or artificial depression in the ground where salt can be obtained by the evaporation of brine
b. a natural depression containing water or mud
8. (Instruments) Caribbean the indented top from an oil drum used as the treble drum in a steel band
10. (Physical Geography) a small ice floe
11. a slang word for face1a
12. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a small cavity containing priming powder in the locks of old guns
13. (Geological Science) a hard substratum of soil
14. (Cookery) short for pan loaf
vb, pans, panning or panned
15. (Mining & Quarrying) (when: tr, often foll by off or out) to wash (gravel) in a pan to separate particles of (valuable minerals) from it
16. (Mining & Quarrying) (often foll by: out) (of gravel) to yield valuable minerals by this process
17. (tr) informal to criticize harshly: the critics panned his new play.
[Old English panne; related to Old Saxon, Old Norse panna, Old High German pfanna]
pan
(pæn)vb, pans, panning or panned
(Film) to move (a film camera) or (of a film camera) to be moved so as to follow a moving object or obtain a panoramic effect
n
(Film)
a. the act of panning
b. (as modifier): a pan shot.
[C20: shortened from panoramic]
pan
(pæn) orpaan
n
1. (Plants) the leaf of the betel tree
2. (Plants) a preparation of this leaf which is chewed, together with betel nuts and lime, in India and the East Indies
[C17: from Hindi, from Sanskrit parna feather, wing, leaf]
Pan
(pæn)n
(Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth the god of fields, woods, shepherds, and flocks, represented as a man with a goat's legs, horns, and ears.
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pan1
(pæn)n., v. panned, pan•ning. n.
1. a broad, usu. shallow, metal container, used in various forms for frying, baking, washing, etc.
2. any similar receptacle or part, as the scales of a balance.
3. the amount a pan holds or can hold; panful.
4. a container in which gold or other valuable metals are separated from gravel or other substances by agitation with water.
5. a drifting piece of flat, thin ice, as formed on a shore or bay.
6. a natural depression in the ground, as one containing water, mud, or mineral salts.
7. (in old guns) the hollow part of the lock, holding the priming.
8. Informal. an unfavorable review or critique.
9. Slang. the face.
v.t. 10. Informal. to criticize harshly, as in a review.
11. to wash (gravel, sand, etc.) in a pan to separate gold or other valuable metal.
12. to cook in a pan.
v.i. 13. to wash gravel, sand, etc., in a pan in seeking gold or the like.
14. to yield gold or the like, as gravel washed in a pan.
15. pan out, Informal. to have an outcome, esp. a successful one.
[before 900; Middle English, Old English panne, c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon panna, Old High German pfanna]
pan′ner, n.
pan2
(pɑn)n.
1. the leaf of the betel.
2. a substance, esp. betel nut or a betel-nut mixture, used for chewing.
[1610–20; < Hindi pān; compare Pali, Prakrit paṇṇa, Skt parṇa leaf, betel leaf]
pan3
(pæn)v. panned, pan•ning,
n. v.i.
1. to swivel a television or motion-picture camera horizontally in order to keep a moving subject in view or record a panorama.
2. (of a camera) to be moved in such a manner.
v.t. 3. to move (a camera) in such a manner.
n. 4. the act of panning a camera.
5. the filmed shot resulting from this.
[1920–25; shortening of panorama]
pan6
(pæn)n.
Pan1
(pæn)n.
an ancient Greek god of shepherds and hunters, usu. represented as a man with the legs, horns, and ears of a goat.
Pan2
or pan
(pæn)n.
pan-
a combining form meaning “all”: pantheism; used esp. in terms implying the union of all branches of a group: Pan-American; Pan-Slavism.
[< Greek pan-, comb. form of pâs (neuter pân) all, every]
Pan.
Panama.
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pan
- casserole - Came from casse, "pan" or "ladle," which probably comes from Greek kuathos, "serving cup"; casserole is a diminutive of casse, "spoonlike container" (cassette is also a diminutive of casse).
- paella - The rice dish is Spanish for "frying pan," from Latin patella, "little pan."
- pan, brain pan - The upper part of the skull has been called the pan or brain pan.
- wok - Derives from a Cantonese word meaning "pan."
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pan
Past participle: panned
Gerund: panning
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| Noun | 1. |  pan - cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vesselcooking utensil, cookware - a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking drip pan, dripping pan - pan for catching drippings under roasting meat omelet pan, omelette pan - pan for cooking omelets patty-pan - a pan for cooking patties or pasties roaster - a special cooking pan for roasting saucepan - a deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling wok - pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in Chinese cooking |
| 2. | Pan - (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks | |
| 3. | pan - shallow container made of metal bain-marie - a large pan that is filled with hot water; smaller pans containing food can be set in the larger pan to keep food warm or to cook food slowly container - any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) dishpan - large pan for washing dishes drip pan - pan under a refrigerator for collecting liquid waste panhandle - the handle of a pan pannikin - a small pan or cup (usually of tin) warming pan - a long-handled covered pan holding live coals to warm a bed | |
| 4. | Pan - chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids mammal genus - a genus of mammals family Pongidae, Pongidae - usually considered as comprising orangutans; gorillas; chimpanzees; and sometimes gibbons chimp, chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes - intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests bonobo, Pan paniscus, pygmy chimpanzee - small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species | |
| Verb | 1. | pan - make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room" go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| 2. | pan - wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals wash - separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) | |
| 3. |  pan - express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance" |
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pan
1verb
1. (Informal) criticize, knock, blast, hammer (Brit. informal), slam (slang), flame (informal), rubbish (informal), roast (informal), put down, slate (informal), censure, slag (off) (slang), tear into (informal), flay, diss (slang, chiefly U.S.), lambast(e), throw brickbats at (informal) His first movie was panned by the critics.
2. sift out, look for, wash, search for People came westward in the 1800s to pan for gold in Sierra Nevada.
pan out (Informal) work out, happen, result, come out, turn out, culminate, come to pass (archaic), eventuate None of his ideas panned out.
pan
2verb move along or across, follow, track, sweep, scan, traverse, swing across A television camera panned the crowd.
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pan
noun1. Slang. The front surface of the head:
Informal: mug.
2. Informal. A comment expressing fault:
Slang: knock.
pan out
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Translations
طُنْجَرَةٌقِدْر، وِعاء طَبيخوِعاء الطَّبْخ في الفُرْنيُحَرِّك عَدَسَة الكاميرا
formakastrolpánevpanoramovatšvenkovat
pandepanorere=-formformgryde
pannupannullinenvaskatavaskooliallas
tava
Pán
pan, skim; panskot, hverfiskotpanna; pottur
平なべ
팬
pannapanoramētplats/forma cepšanai
panoramaticky zobraziť/zachytiťpekáč
pekačponev
pannasabla
กระทะ
chảo
pan
1 [pæn]A. N
pan out VI + ADV → resultar, salir (bien )
if it pans out as we hope → si sale como nosotros lo esperamos
it didn't pan out at all well → no dio ningún resultado satisfactorio
we must wait and see how it pans out → tenemos que esperar hasta ver cómo sale esto
if it pans out as we hope → si sale como nosotros lo esperamos
it didn't pan out at all well → no dio ningún resultado satisfactorio
we must wait and see how it pans out → tenemos que esperar hasta ver cómo sale esto
pan
2 [pæn] (Cine)A. VI → tomar panorámicas or vistas pan
B. VT a television camera panned the stadium → una cámara de televisión recorrió el estadio
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pan
[ˈpæn] vi
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
pan
:panhandle (US)
pan
1n
(in ground) → Mulde f
pan
2 (Film)n → (Kamera)schwenk m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Pan
[pæn] n → Panpan
[pæn]1. n (Culin) (also saucepan) → casseruola; (frying pan) → padella; (milk pan) → pentolino; (of scales) → piatto; (of lavatory) → tazza
roasting pan → teglia per arrosti
roasting pan → teglia per arrosti
3. vi
a. to pan for gold → (lavare le sabbie aurifere per) cercare l'oro
b. (Cine) → fare una panoramica
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
pan1
(pӕn) noun1. a metal pot usually with a long handle, used for cooking food. a frying-pan; a saucepan.
2. (American) a tin for baking or cooking food inside an oven. a cake pan.
ˈpancake noun a thin cake usually made of milk, flour and eggs and fried in a pan etc.
pan2
(pӕn) – past tense, past participle panned – verb to move (a film or television camera) so as to follow a moving object or show a wide view. The camera panned slowly across to the other side of the street.
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pan
→ طُنْجَرَةٌ kastrol pande Pfanne τηγάνι olla pannu poêle tava padella 平なべ 팬 pan panne rondel frigideira, panela сковорода panna กระทะ tava chảo 平底锅Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009