Definitions for panpɑn

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

panpæn(n.; v.)panned, pan•ning.

(n.)a broad, usu. shallow, metal container, used in various forms for frying, baking, washing, etc.
any similar receptacle or part, as the scales of a balance.
the amount a pan holds or can hold; panful.
Category: Common Vocabulary
a container in which gold or other valuable metals are separated from gravel or other substances by agitation with water.
Category: Metallurgy
a drifting piece of flat, thin ice, as formed on a shore or bay.
Category: Geography (terms)
a natural depression in the ground, as one containing water, mud, or mineral salts.
Category: Geography (terms)
(in old guns) the hollow part of the lock, holding the priming.
Informal. an unfavorable review or critique.
Category: Common Vocabulary
Slang. the face.
Category: Status (usage)
(v.t.)Informal. to criticize harshly, as in a review.
Category: Informal
to wash (gravel, sand, etc.) in a pan to separate gold or other valuable metal.
Category: Metallurgy
to cook in a pan.
(v.i.)to wash gravel, sand, etc., in a pan in seeking gold or the like.
Category: Metallurgy
to yield gold or the like, as gravel washed in a pan.
Category: Metallurgy
pan out,Informal. to have an outcome, esp. a successful one.
Category: Verb Phrase

Origin of pan:

bef. 900; ME, OE panne, c. OFris, OS panna, OHG pfanna

pan′ner(n.)

panpɑn(n.)

the leaf of the betel.
Category: Plants
a substance, esp. betel nut or a betel-nut mixture, used for chewing.

Origin of pan:

1610–20; < Hindi pān; cf. Pali, Prakrit paṇṇa, Skt parṇa leaf, betel leaf

panpæn(v.; n.)panned, pan•ning

(v.i.)to swivel a television or motion-picture camera horizontally in order to keep a moving subject in view or record a panorama.
Category: Showbiz
(of a camera) to be moved in such a manner.
Category: Showbiz
(v.t.)to move (a camera) in such a manner.
Category: Showbiz
(n.)the act of panning a camera.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Showbiz
the filmed shot resulting from this.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Showbiz

Origin of pan:

1920–25; shortening of panorama

panpæn(n.)

Panpæn(n.)

an ancient Greek god of shepherds and hunters, usu. represented as a man with the legs, horns, and ears of a goat.
Category: Mythology

Panpæn(n.)

or pan

pan-

a combining form meaning “all”: pantheism; used esp. in terms implying the union of all branches of a group:
Pan-American; Pan-Slavism.
Category: Affix

Origin of pan-:

< Gk pan-, comb. form of pâs (neut. pân) all, every

Pan.

Panama.
Category: Geography (places)

Princeton's WordNet

pan, cooking pan(noun)
cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
Pan, goat god(noun)
(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
pan(noun)
shallow container made of metal
Pan, genus Pan(verb)
chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
pan(verb)
make a sweeping movement
"The camera panned across the room"
pan, pan out, pan off(verb)
wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
pan, tear apart, trash(verb)
express a totally negative opinion of
"The critics panned the performance"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

pan(noun)æn
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

Wiktionary

Pan(ProperNoun)
Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes.
Pan(ProperNoun)
A moon of the planet Saturn.

Origin: Old English panne, from pannōn. Cognate with Dutch pan, German Pfanne.

Webster Dictionary

Pan(noun)
a part; a portion
Pan(noun)
the distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle
Pan(noun)
a leaf of gold or silver
Pan(u)
to join or fit together; to unite
Pan(noun)
the betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel
Pan(noun)
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
Pan(noun)
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
Pan(noun)
a closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum
Pan(noun)
the part of a flintlock which holds the priming
Pan(noun)
the skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium
Pan(noun)
a recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge
Pan(noun)
the hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard
Pan(noun)
a natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud
Pan(verb)
to separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan
Pan(verb)
to yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly
Pan(verb)
to turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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.