pan

Noun

pan (plural pans)

A pan (1)

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. (Ireland) 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. (geography) a specific type of lake, natural depression or basin. They are sometimes associated with desert areas.
7. Strong adverse criticism.
8. A loaf of bread.
9. (obsolete) The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
10. (slang) A human face, a mug.
    • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, page 103:

      This was the kind of operator who would tell you to be there at nine sharp and if you weren't sitting quietly with a pleased smile on your pan when he floated in two hours later on a double Gibson, he would have a paroxysm of outraged executive ability […].

11. (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
12. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
13. The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
    • 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, pp. 95-96,

      […] he pull’d the Trigger, but Providence being pleas’d to preserve me for some other Purpose, the Cock snapp’d, and miss’d Fire. Whether the Prime was wet in the Pan, or by what other Miracle it was I escap’d his Fury, I cannot say […]

    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

      And he […] glared on the cold pistols that hung before him—ready for anything. And he took down one with a snatch and weighed it in his hand, and fell to thinking again; and, as he did, kept opening and shutting the pan with a snap, […]

14. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
15. (figuratively) 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."

16. (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
17. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil; hardpan.

Verb

panned gold

pan (third-person singular simple present pans, present participle panning, simple past and past participle panned)

1. (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
   • General Sherman

     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.

2. (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely.
   • 2013, Catwoman (film), English Wikipedia:

     Catwoman was heavily panned by critics and holds a 9% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 179 reviews with the consensus stating: "Halle Berry is the lone bright spot, but even she can't save this laughable action thriller".

3. (intransitive) With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful.
4. (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
5. (informal) To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.)

Verb

pan (third-person singular simple present pans, present participle panning, simple past and past participle panned)

1. (intransitive) To turn horizontally (of a camera etc).
   • February 2018, Robert Draper in National Geographic Magazine, They Are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet:

     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.

2. (intransitive, photography) 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.
3. (audio) 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.

Noun

pan (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of paan

Verb

pan (third-person singular simple present pans, present participle panning, simple past and past participle panned)

1. To join or fit together; to unite.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Noun

pan (plural pans)

1. A part; a portion.
2. (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
3. A leaf of gold or silver.

Adjective

pan (not comparable)

1. (informal) Pansexual.
   • 2012, Anna Waugh, "Texas got a pansexual legislator", Dallas Voice, Volume 29, Issue 33, 28 December 2012, page 9:

     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.

   • 2013, Alejandra Rodriguez, "Isn't That Bisexual?", Outwrite, Fall 2013, page 7:

     Another anonymous pansexual disclosed, "Sometimes I feel really left out because I'm pan. […] "

   • 2013, Megan Hertner, "Understanding Gender and Sexuality", Grapevine (Huron University College), December 2013, page 19:

     A similar experience is shared by individuals who identify their sexuality as pan, bi or queer.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:pan.

Synonyms

• (lake): meer

Usage notes

• This is the form used when followed by a name, title, occupation etc.

  pan Novák

  Mr Novák

  Pane předsedo, dámy a pánové...

  Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen...

  Vítejte, pane rytíři.

  Welcome, Sir Knight.

  Kdy přijde pan doktor, sestřičko?

  When will the doctor come, nurse?

Noun

pan f (plural pannen, diminutive pannetje n)

1. pan, especially for cooking
2. (Netherlands) pot

   Synonym: pot

Derived terms

• braadpan
• dakpan
• frituurpan
• grillpan
• hapjespan
• hogedrukpan
• koekenpan
• kookpan
• sauspan
• snelkookpan
• soeppan
• steelpan
• pannenlapper
• pannenset

Noun

pan m (plural pans)

1. piece, part

   Synonyms: morceau, partie

   c'est un pan à part ― it's a special part

2. side, face
3. flap, lap (of coat)
4. patch, area, section, sector

Interjection

pan

1. bang! (sound of a gun)

   Pan! T'es mort !

   Bang! You're dead!

2. bam!

Related terms

• empanada
• empanar
• panadaría
• panadeiro
• pantrigo

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Derived terms

• pan cogon

Related terms

• panier

Descendants

Declension

Declension

Derived terms

• panek
• pani
• panicz
• panisko
• panna
• panoszyć się
• panować
• pański
• państwo
• wspaniały

Descendants

• → Belarussian: пан (pan)
• → Lithuanian: põnas
• → Russian: пан (pan)
• → Ukrainian: пан (pan)

Derived terms

(diminutive panecillo or panecito)

Related terms

• panera
• panero