Meaning of Pan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus.
   Greek
2. A surname.
3. Ellipsis of Peter Pan.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
4. A suburb of Newport, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5088).
5. The workhouse in St Pancras, London.
   UK, obsolete, slang
6. A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
7. A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
8. A part; a portion.
9. Clipping of pantograph.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
10. Abbreviation of Proto-Austronesian.
    abbreviation, alt-of
11. Acronym of primary account number.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
12. An inner moon of the planet Saturn, notable for its equatorial ridge.
13. The contents of such a receptacle.
14. The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
15. Acronym of personal area network.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
16. A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
17. A leaf of gold or silver.
18. Initialism of polyacrylonitrile.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
19. A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
    Ireland
20. Initialism of peroxyacetyl nitrate.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
21. A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
22. Initialism of phenylacetonitrile.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
23. An expanse of level land located in a depression, especially
24. A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
25. A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
    South-Africa, especially
26. Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
    South-Africa
27. Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
28. Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
29. Synonym of pipe: a channel for lava within a volcano; the cylindrical remains of such channels.
    South-Africa, obsolete
30. Strong adverse criticism.
31. A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
    Ireland
32. The chamber pot in a close stool; (now) the base of a toilet, consisting of the bowl and its support.
    obsolete
33. A bedpan.
34. A human face, a mug.
    slang
35. The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
36. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
37. The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
38. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
39. The brain, seen as one's intellect.
    figuratively
40. A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
41. Ellipsis of steelpan.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Equivalents

Examples

“The notices The Gallery received, while hardly pans, were only mixed.”

“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 sheets! Unreal.”

“"He's a foreign-looking guy with thinnish black hair and a meaty sort of pan."”

“Dave and I have parted company, and I hope I never see his junky pan again.”

“This was the kind of operator who would tell you to be there at nine sharp and if you weren't sitting quietly with a pleased smile on your pan when he floated in two hours later on a double Gibson, he would have a paroxysm of outraged executive ability […].”

“flash in the pan”

“[…] he pull’d the Trigger, but Providence being pleas’d to preserve me for some other Purpose, the Cock snapp’d, and miss’d Fire. Whether the Prime was wet in the Pan, or by what other Miracle it was I escap’d his Fury, I cannot say […]”

“And he […] glared on the cold pistols that hung before him—ready for anything. And he took down one with a snatch and weighed it in his hand, and fell to thinking again; and, as he did, kept opening and shutting the pan with a snap, […]”

“14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Friar's Tale, Unto the devil rough and black of hue Give I thy body and my pan also."”

“The steel band transforms the people who play in it and dance to it, and fosters links between them. […] He learned to play the pan and filled in for absent members.”

“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.”

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