1. (n.)pan a broad, usu. shallow, metal container, used in various forms for frying, baking, washing, etc.
2. pan any similar receptacle or part, as the scales of a balance.
3. pan the amount a pan holds or can hold; panful.
4. pan a container in which gold or other valuable metals are separated from gravel or other substances by agitation with water.
5. pan a drifting piece of flat, thin ice, as formed on a shore or bay.
6. pan a natural depression in the ground, as one containing water, mud, or mineral salts.
7. pan (in old guns) the hollow part of the lock, holding the priming.
8. pan Informal. an unfavorable review or critique.
9. pan Slang. the face.
10. (v.t.)pan Informal. to criticize harshly, as in a review.
11. pan to wash (gravel, sand, etc.) in a pan to separate gold or other valuable metal.
12. pan to cook in a pan.
13. (v.i.)pan to wash gravel, sand, etc., in a pan in seeking gold or the like.
14. pan to yield gold or the like, as gravel washed in a pan.
15. pan Informal. to have an outcome, esp. a successful one.
16. (n.)pan the leaf of the betel.
17. pan a substance, esp. betel nut or a betel-nut mixture, used for chewing.
18. (v.i.)pan to swivel a television or motion-picture camera horizontally in order to keep a moving subject in view or record a panorama.
19. pan (of a camera) to be moved in such a manner.
20. (v.t.)pan to move (a camera) in such a manner.
21. (n.)pan the act of panning a camera.
22. pan the filmed shot resulting from this.
23. (n.)Pan an ancient Greek god of shepherds and hunters, usu. represented as a man with the legs, horns, and ears of a goat.
Definition of 'pan'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)pan, cooking pan cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
2. (noun)Pan, goat god (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
3. (noun)pan shallow container made of metal
4. (verb)Pan, genus Pan chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
5. (verb)pan make a sweeping movement "The camera panned across the room"
6. (verb)pan, pan out, pan off wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
7. (verb)pan, tear apart, trash express a totally negative opinion of "The critics panned the performance"
1. (noun)pan a metal container used for cooking food, or the amount contained in a pan a set of stainless steel pans; pots and pans; a pan of bacon and eggs
Definition of 'pan'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)pan a part; a portion
2. (noun)pan the distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle
3. (noun)pan a leaf of gold or silver
4. (noun)pan the betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel
5. (noun)pan the god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented
6. (noun)pan a shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing
7. (noun)pan a closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum
8. (noun)pan the part of a flintlock which holds the priming
9. (noun)pan the skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium
10. (noun)pan a recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge
11. (noun)pan the hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard
12. (noun)pan a natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud
13. pan to join or fit together; to unite
14. (verb)pan to separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan
15. (verb)pan to yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly
16. (verb)pan to turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly
Definitions of 'pan'
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
1. pan in the Greek mythology a goat-man, a personification of rude nature, and the protector of flocks and herds; originally an Arcadian deity, is represented as playing on a flute of reeds joined together of different lengths, called Pan's pipes; and dancing on his cloven hoofs over glades and mountains escorted by a bevy of nymphs side by side, and playing on his pipes. There is a remarkable tradition, that on the night of the Nativity at Bethlehem an astonished voyager heard a voice exclaiming as he passed the promontory of Tarentum, "The great Pan is dead." The modern devil is invested with some of his attributes, such as cloven hoofs, &c.
Definitions of pan 
Afrikaans: pan
Arabic: قِدْر، وِعاء طَبيخ
Bulgarian: тиган
Brazilian: panela
Czech: pánev
German: die Pfanne
Danish: pande; -pande; gryde
Greek: τηγάνι, κατσαρόλα
Spanish: cazuela, cazo, sartén (pa
Estonian: pann, kastrul
Farsi: ماهی تابه
Finnish: pannu
French: casserole
Hebrew: סִיר
Hindi: तवा, कड़ाह, कड़ाही
Croatian: tava, lonac s ručkom
Hungarian: serpenyő
Indonesian: penggorengan
Icelandic: panna; pottur
Italian: casseruola, tegame
Japanese: 平なべ
Korean: 납작한 냄비(프라이팬)
Lithuanian: keptuvė, prikaistuvis
Latvian: panna
Malay: kuali leper
Dutch: pan
Norwegian: panne, gryte, kasserolle
Polish: rondel, patelnia
Persian: ماهی تابه
Pashto: کرایی
Portuguese: tacho
Romanian: tigaie; cratiţă
Russian: сковорода;кастрюля
Slovak: panvica
Slovenian: ponev
Serbian: tiganj
Swedish: [stek]panna, kastrull
Thai: กระทะ
Turkish: tava
Taiwanese: 平底鍋
Ukrainian: сковорода; каструля
Urdu: توا
Vietnamese: cái xoong
Chinese: 平底锅
