pan

Significat

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

Verb

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

Verb

1. To turn horizontally.
2. To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360 degrees from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
3. To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
4. To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.

Verb

To join or fit together; to unite.

Adj

Pansexual or panromantic.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/pæn/

Etimologia

From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ, from Late Latin panna, from Latin patina (“broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan”), from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē, “kind of flat dish”), which is probably from Pre-Greek.
Cognate with West Frisian panne, Saterland Frisian Ponne, Dutch pan, German Low German Panne, Pann, German Pfanne, Danish pande, Swedish panna, Icelandic panna.