From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
pan
n 1: cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel [syn:
cooking pan]
2: (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and
flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns
and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus [syn:
Pan, the goat god]
3: shallow container made of metal
4: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than
to other pongids [syn: Pan, genus Pan]
v 1: make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the
room"
2: wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
[syn: pan out, pan off]
3: express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned
the performance" [syn: tear apart, trash]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pan \Pan\, v. t. & i. (Cinematography)
To scan (a movie camera), usu. in a horizontal direction, to
obtain a panoramic effect; also, to move the camera so as to
keep the subject in view.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pan- \Pan-\, Panta- \Pan"ta-\, Panto- \Pan"to-\ [Gr. ?, m., ?,
neut., gen. ?, all.]
Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama,
pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b
or p, as pamprodactylous.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pan \Pan\, n. [OE. See 2d Pane.]
1. A part; a portion.
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2. (Fort.) The distance comprised between the angle of the
epaule and the flanked angle.
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3. [Perh. a different word.] A leaf of gold or silver.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pan \Pan\, v. t. & i. [Cf. F. pan skirt, lappet, L. pannus a
cloth, rag, W. panu to fur, to full.]
To join or fit together; to unite. [Obs.] --Halliwell.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pan \Pan\, n. [Hind. p[=a]n, Skr. parna leaf.]
The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf,
etc. See Betel.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pan \Pan\, prop. n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Gr. Myth.)
The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing
and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and
trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and
as playing on the shepherd's pipe (also called the pipes of
Pan), which he is said to have invented.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pan \Pan\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Panned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Panning.]
1. (Mining) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by
washing in a kind of pan. [U. S.]
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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.
--Gen. W. T.
Sherman.
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2. To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pan \Pan\, n. [OE. panne, AS. panne; cf. D. pan, G. pfanne, OHG.
pfanna, Icel., Sw., LL., & Ir. panna, of uncertain origin;
cf. L. patina, E. paten.]
1. A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed
for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for
frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various
uses in manufacturing. "A bowl or a pan." --Chaucer.
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2. (Manuf.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See
Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
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3. The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
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4. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain;
the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
--Chaucer.
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5. (Carp.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
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6. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See
Hard pan, under Hard.
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7. A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
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Flash in the pan. See under Flash.
To savor of the pan, to suggest the process of cooking or
burning; in a theological sense, to be heretical.
--Ridley. Southey.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pan \Pan\, v. i.
1. (Mining) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of
panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out
richly.
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2. To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to
develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned
out poorly. [Slang, U. S.]
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