[pan] 
noun, verb, panned, pan⋅ning.| 1. | a broad, shallow container of metal, usually having sides flaring outward toward the top, 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: a pan of shelled peas. |
| 4. | any of various open or closed containers used in industrial or mechanical processes. |
| 5. | a container in which silver ores are ground and amalgamated. |
| 6. | a container in which gold or other heavy, valuable metals are separated from gravel or other substances by agitation with water. |
| 7. | a drifting piece of flat, thin ice, as formed on a shore or bay. |
| 8. | a natural depression in the ground, as one containing water, mud, or mineral salts. |
| 9. | a similar depression made artificially, as for evaporating salt water to make salt. |
| 10. | (in old guns) the depressed part of the lock, holding the priming. |
| 11. | Also, panning. an unfavorable review, critique, or appraisal: The show got one rave and three pans. |
| 12. | Slang. the face. |
| 13. | Informal. to criticize severely, as in a review of a play. |
| 14. | to wash (gravel, sand, etc.) in a pan to separate gold or other heavy valuable metal. |
| 15. | to cook (oysters, clams, etc.) in a pan. |
| 16. | to wash gravel, sand, etc., in a pan in seeking gold or the like. |
| 17. | to yield gold or the like, as gravel washed in a pan. |
| 18. | pan out, Informal. to turn out, esp. successfully: The couple's reconciliation just didn't pan out. |
[pahn] | 1. | the leaf of the betel. |
| 2. | a substance, esp. betel nut or a betel-nut mixture, used for chewing. |
[pan] verb, panned, pan⋅ning, noun | 1. | to photograph or televise while rotating a camera on its vertical or horizontal axis in order to keep a moving person or object in view or allow the film to record a panorama: to pan from one end of the playing field to the other during the opening of the football game. |
| 2. | (of a camera) to be moved or manipulated in such a manner: The cameras panned occasionally during the scene. |
| 3. | to move (a camera) in such a manner: to pan the camera across the scene. |
| 4. | to photograph or televise (a scene, moving character, etc.) by panning the camera. |
| 5. | the act of panning a camera. |
| 6. | Also called panning shot. the filmed shot resulting from this. |
[pan] | 1. | a major vertical division of a wall. |
| 2. | a nogged panel of half-timber construction. |
[pan] | the ancient Greek god of forests, pastures, flocks, and shepherds, represented with the head, chest, and arms of a man and the legs and sometimes the horns and ears of a goat. |
[pan] | an international distress signal used by shore stations to inform a ship, aircraft, etc., of something vital to its safety or that of one of its passengers. |
| a combining form meaning “all,” occurring originally in loanwords from Greek (panacea; panoply), but now used freely as a general formative (panleukopenia; panorama; pantelegraph; pantheism; pantonality), and esp. in terms, formed at will, implying the union of all branches of a group (Pan-Christian; Panhellenic; Pan-Slavism). The hyphen and the second capital tend with longer use to be lost, unless they are retained in order to set off clearly the component parts. |
| pan 1 (pān) n.
v. tr.
pan outTo turn out well; be successful: "If I don't pan out as an actor I can still go back to school" (Saul Bellow). [Middle English, from Old English panne, from West Germanic *panna, probably from Vulgar Latin *patna, from Latin patina, shallow pan, platter, from Greek patanē; see petə- in Indo-European roots.] |
| pan 2 (pän) n.
[Hindi pān, from Sanskrit parṇam, feather, betel leaf; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
| pan 3 (pān) v. panned, pan·ning, pans v. intr. To move a movie or television camera to follow an object or create a panoramic effect. v. tr. To move (a camera) so as to follow a moving object or create a panoramic effect. [Short for panorama or panoramic.] |
| Pan (pān) n.
[Middle English, from Latin Pān, from Greek.] |
The Greek god of flocks, forests, meadows, and shepherds. He had the horns and feet of a goat. Pan frolicked about the landscape, playing delightful tunes.
Note: Pan's musical instrument was a set of reed pipes, the “pipes of Pan.”
Note: According to legend, Pan was the source of scary noises in the wilderness at night. Fright at these noises was called “panic.”
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pan- pref.
All: panagglutinins.
General; whole: panimmunity.
Pan
a vessel of metal or earthenware used in culinary operations; a cooking-pan or frying-pan frequently referred to in the Old Testament (Lev. 2:5; 6:21; Num. 11:8; 1 Sam. 2:14, etc.). The "ash-pans" mentioned in Ex. 27:3 were made of copper, and were used in connection with the altar of burnt-offering. The "iron pan" mentioned in Ezek. 4:3 (marg., "flat plate " or "slice") was probably a mere plate of iron used for baking. The "fire-pans" of Ex. 27:3 were fire-shovels used for taking up coals. The same Hebrew word is rendered "snuff-dishes" (25:38; 37:23) and "censers" (Lev. 10:1; 16:12; Num. 4:14, etc.). These were probably simply metal vessels employed for carrying burning embers from the brazen altar to the altar of incense. The "frying-pan" mentioned in Lev. 2:7; 7:9 was a pot for boiling.
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In addition to the idiom beginning with pan, also see flash in the pan; out of the frying pan.
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