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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