pan

A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.

Adjective

  1. Pansexual or panromantic.
    • When she publicly acknowledged that she is pan, it educated citizens near and far on what that sexuality meant and the importance of being proud of who you are. - 2012 December 28, Anna Waugh, “Texas got a pansexual...
    • Another anonymous pansexual disclosed, "Sometimes I feel really left out because I'm pan. […] " - 2013, Alejandra Rodriguez, "Isn't That Bisexual?", Outwrite, Fall 2013, page 7
    • A similar experience is shared by individuals who identify their sexuality as pan, bi or queer. - 2013, Megan Hertner, "Understanding Gender and Sexuality", Grapevine (Huron University College), December 2013, page 19

Origin

Clipping of pansexual or panromantic.

Noun Entry 2

  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

    1. A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.

    2. (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.

    3. (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.

      Synonyms: playa lake

    4. Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.

  7. Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
  8. Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.

    Synonyms: pipe

  9. Strong adverse criticism.
    • The notices The Gallery received, while hardly pans, were only mixed. - 1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 10:
  10. A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
  11. The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
  12. A bedpan.
    • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure She yanks the pan out from under me & it spills all over the bed. Then she's got to change the...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *pannǭ Proto-West Germanic *pannā Old English panne Middle English panne English pan From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ. Further origin uncertain. Alois Walde firstly suggests that it might be 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. But the sound shifting from /patina/ → /patna/ → /panna/ raises questions as -tn- to -nn- is rarely seen in Latin. The mainstream theory as of now (Friedrich Kluge, Julius Pokorny, Guus Kroonen) suggests that it is from Late Latin panna. But its sparse attestation only in the frontier inscriptions and not widespread in most Romance languages raises doubts among a few scholars (notably Michiel de Vaan), being skeptical about...

Forms

pans pen

Synonyms

frying pan skillet cookie sheet tin saucepan chamber pot toilet

Hypernyms

salt pan salt flat alkali pan

Hyponyms

flat

Derived

ashpan ash pan bakepan baking pan bedpan best thing since sliced pan brainpan bratt pan bread pan cakepan calandria pan cat in the pan chef's pan chip pan claypan deadpan dishpan down the pan drain pan dripping pan dustpan firepan flash in the pan flash pan

Noun Entry 3

  1. A part; a portion.
  2. The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
  3. A leaf of gold or silver.

Origin

From Old English. See pane.

Forms

pans

Noun Entry 4

  1. A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
    • For instance, in the film Dances with Wolves, a pan of an uninhabited landscape contrasts the gruesome beginning footage that depicts the carnage of war. - 2013, Monle Lee, Carla Johnson, Principles of Advertising: A...

Origin

Clipping of panorama.

Forms

pans

Derived

whip pan

Noun alt of, alternative

  1. Alternative form of paan.

Noun rail transport, railways

  1. Clipping of pantograph.

Origin

Clipping of pantograph.

Forms

pans

Synonyms

panto

Related

pan bagnat pan haggerty pan tao peach

Verb Entry 7

  1. To turn horizontally.
    • Later today in Finsbury Park, the cameras would spend hours panning across 35,000 festivalgoers in search of pickpockets, drunken brawlers, and other assorted agents of petty mischief. - 2018 February, Robert Draper,...
  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° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
    • As one can only "pan" at 90 deg. to the direction of movement of the subject, a compromise has to be reached when shooting at more conventional angles between a shutter speed high enough to arrest the forward movement...
  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.
  5. To move in the multichannel sound field.

Forms

pans panning panned

Related

cinema cinematography portrait tripod

Derived

pan and scan pannable panner pan out

Verb Entry 8

  1. To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
    • We […] witnessed the process of cleaning up and panning out, which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand. - 1875, William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs:

    Coordinate Terms: sluice

  2. To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
    • Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh in. - 2022 May 17,...

    Synonyms: admonish animadvert bash bawl out slash lash blame scorch blast berate berisp castigate censure charge chastise chew out chide condemn criticize denounce denunciate deprecate derogate dispraise

  3. To turn out well; to be successful.
  4. To beat one's opposition convincingly.

Forms

pans panning panned

Related

lavatory

Derived

unpanned

Verb Entry 9

  1. To join or fit together; to unite.
    • 31 May 1884, Leeds Mercury Pan it down—press an article into its proper place
    • The plants can either be sold individually in the 3 inch pots as Valentine favors , or several may be panned together in larger pots - 1963, Grower Talks:

Origin

Of unknown origin.

Forms

pans panning panned