panpæn(n.; v.)panned, pan•ning.

1. (n.)a broad, usu. shallow, metal container, used in various forms for frying, baking, washing, etc.

2. any similar receptacle or part, as the scales of a balance.

3. the amount a pan holds or can hold; panful.

   Category: Common Vocabulary

4. a container in which gold or other valuable metals are separated from gravel or other substances by agitation with water.

   Category: Metallurgy

5. a drifting piece of flat, thin ice, as formed on a shore or bay.

   Category: Geography (terms)

6. a natural depression in the ground, as one containing water, mud, or mineral salts.

   Category: Geography (terms)

7. (in old guns) the hollow part of the lock, holding the priming.

8. Informal. an unfavorable review or critique.

   Category: Common Vocabulary

9. Slang. the face.

   Category: Status (usage)

10. (v.t.)Informal. to criticize harshly, as in a review.

    Category: Informal

11. to wash (gravel, sand, etc.) in a pan to separate gold or other valuable metal.

    Category: Metallurgy

12. to cook in a pan.

13. (v.i.)to wash gravel, sand, etc., in a pan in seeking gold or the like.

    Category: Metallurgy

14. to yield gold or the like, as gravel washed in a pan.

    Category: Metallurgy

15. 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.)

1. the leaf of the betel.

   Category: Plants

2. 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

1. (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

2. (of a camera) to be moved in such a manner.

   Category: Showbiz

3. (v.t.)to move (a camera) in such a manner.

   Category: Showbiz

4. (n.)the act of panning a camera.

   Category: Common Vocabulary, Showbiz

5. the filmed shot resulting from this.

   Category: Common Vocabulary, Showbiz

Origin of pan:

1920–25; shortening of panorama

panpæn(n.)

Panpæn(n.)

1. 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-

1. 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.

1. Panama.

   Category: Geography (places)