pan
/pæn/
Dictionary
noun
- 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.
- 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.
- An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
- Short for hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- A loaf of bread.
- The chamber pot in a close stool; the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
- 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.
- The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- The brain, seen as one's intellect
- A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
verb
- To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely.
- With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful.
- (of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.)
noun
- Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
- Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
- Meanings relating to a container.
- Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
- Meanings relating to computing.
- Meanings relating to a smoking implement.
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