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Pan

/pæn/

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noun

  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. 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. An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
  7. Short for hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
  8. Strong adverse criticism.
  9. A loaf of bread.
  10. The chamber pot in a close stool; the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
  11. A human face, a mug.
  12. (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
  13. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
  14. The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
  15. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
  16. The brain, seen as one's intellect
  17. A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

Synonyms: cookie sheet, frying pan, skillet, tin, saucepan

verb

  1. To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
  2. To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely.
  3. With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful.
  4. (of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
  5. To criticize harshly a work (like a book, movie, etc.)

noun

  1. Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
  2. Meanings relating to a hollow conduit.
  3. Meanings relating to a container.
  4. Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.
  5. Meanings relating to computing.
  6. Meanings relating to a smoking implement.

Synonyms: pan, bar, vertical bar, vertical line, virgule

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