pan

A pan (1)

Meanings

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
: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
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.
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.
Alternative of paan
A part; a portion.
The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
A leaf of gold or silver.

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.
To beat one's opposition convincingly.
To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.)
To turn horizontally.
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.
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.

From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ.
Cognate with West Frisian panne, Saterland Frisian Ponne, Dutch pan, German Low German Panne, Pann, German Pfanne, Danish pande, Swedish panna, Icelandic panna.
From a clipped form of panorama.
Compare French pan ("skirt, lappet"), Latin pannus ("a cloth, rag"). pagne, pane, and pannus.
From Old English. See pane.

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