English Explanatory Dictionary

Pan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes.
  2. An inner moon of the planet Saturn, notable for its equatorial ridge.
name
  1. A surname.
noun
  1. Ellipsis of Peter Pan.
name
  1. A suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5088).
name
  1. The workhouse in St Pancras, London.
name
  1. Abbreviation of Proto-Austronesian.
noun
  1. Acronym of primary account number.
  2. Acronym of personal area network.
  3. Initialism of polyacrylonitrile.
  4. Initialism of peroxyacetyl nitrate.
  5. Initialism of phenylacetonitrile.
noun
  1. A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
  2. The contents of such a receptacle.
  3. A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
  4. A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
  5. A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
  6. An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
  7. A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
  8. A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
  9. Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
  10. Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
  11. Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
  12. Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
verb
  1. To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
  2. To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
  3. To turn out well; to be successful.
  4. To beat one's opposition convincingly.
verb
  1. (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
  2. 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.
  3. To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
  4. 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.
  5. (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
noun
  1. A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
noun
  1. Alternative form of paan.
verb
  1. To join or fit together; to unite.
noun
  1. A part; a portion.
  2. The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
  3. A leaf of gold or silver.
adj
  1. Pansexual or panromantic.
noun
  1. Clipping of pantograph.

Pronunciation

/pæn/ [pʰæn] en-us-pan.ogg

Word forms

Pan Pans the Pan pen panning panned

Etymology

From Middle English Pan, from Latin Pān, from Ancient Greek Πάν (Pán).

Synonyms

Faunus Pales benzeneacetonitrile benzylcyanide frying pan skillet cookie sheet tin saucepan playa lake pipe chamber pot toilet flash pan priming pan admonish animadvert bash bawl out slash lash blame scorch blast berate berisp castigate censure charge chastise chew out chide condemn criticize denounce denunciate deprecate derogate dispraise drag dress down eat someone alive excoriate find fault fulminate get at get down get up give somebody a piece of one's mind give somebody what-for inveigh lace into lambaste lay into lecture light into objurgate pooh-pooh put someone on blast rate

Related words

doghead lavatory cinema cinematography portrait tripod pan bagnat pan haggerty pan tao peach

Derived words

pan- Pandean pandemonium panic panine Pan-like panolepsy panophobia panpipe pan-pipes panpipes ashpan ash pan bakepan baking pan bedpan best thing since sliced pan brainpan bratt pan bread pan cakepan calandria pan cat in the pan chef's pan chip pan claypan deadpan dishpan down the pan drain pan dripping pan dustpan firepan flash in the pan flash pan floorpan footpan frying pan frypan go down the pan hardpan harnpan headpan hotel pan jelly roll pan kneepan loaf pan maslin pan milk pan milkpan moo goo gai pan moorpan muffin pan oil pan paella pan pan bread panbroil pancake pan drop panfish

Translations

Afrikaans: pan Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܘܵܐ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܩܠܝܵܐ Avar: хьаг Bulgarian: тига́н Bulgarian: корито Czech: pánev Czech: rýžovací pánev Czech: rýžovací mísa Dalmatian: forsaura Dalmatian: padella Dalmatian: tacla Danish: pande Dutch: pan Esperanto: pato Finnish: paistinpannu Finnish: pannu Finnish: vaskooli French: poêle Friulian: padiele Friulian: fersorie Friulian: tecje Galician: tixola Galician: panela Galician: sartaña Galician: paila Galician: tarteira Georgian: ქვაბი Georgian: ტაფა German: Pfanne Greek: τηγάνι Greek: ταψί Mbya Guarani: oja Hungarian: serpenyő Icelandic: panna Irish: friochtán Italian: padella Italian: tegame Italian: batea Central Kurdish: تاوە Latin: patina Latin: sartago Macedonian: тава Malay: kuali Maltese: taġen Māori: pararaha Neapolitan: sartanio Norwegian: panne m and Old English: panne Persian: ماهی تابه Polish: patelnia Portuguese: caçarola Portuguese: frigideira Portuguese: bateia Romanian: cratiță Romanian: tigaie Romansh: chazetta Romansh: cazetta Romansh: cazeta Romansh: padeala Romansh: padela Romansh: padella Russian: сковорода́ Russian: про́тивень Russian: лото́к Samoan: 'ulo Samoan: pani Samogitian: petėlnė Scottish Gaelic: aghann Scottish Gaelic: pana Serbo-Croatian: тѐпсија Serbo-Croatian: tèpsija
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