ALL meanings of pan
pan
P p - noun pan saucepan, frying pan 1
- noun pan sifting dish 1
- noun pan depression 1
- noun pan face 1
- noun pan container for roasting 1
- prefix pan all, every 1
- intransitive verb pan wash gravel 1
- intransitive verb pan move a camera 1
- transitive verb pan criticize 1
- noun pan an international distress signal used by shore stations to inform a ship, aircraft, etc., of something vital to its safety or to the safety of one of its passengers. 1
- verb with object pan to move (a camera) in such a manner: to pan the camera across the scene. 1
- verb with object pan to photograph or televise (a scene, moving character, etc.) by panning the camera. 1
- verb without object pan to photograph or televise while rotating a camera on its vertical or horizontal axis in order to keep a moving person or object in view or allow the film to record a panorama: to pan from one end of the playing field to the other during the opening of the football game. 1
- verb without object pan (of a camera) to be moved or manipulated in such a manner: The cameras panned occasionally during the scene. 1
- countable noun pan A pan is a round metal container with a long handle, which is used for cooking things in, usually on top of a cooker or stove. 0
- countable noun pan A pan is a shallow metal container used for baking foods. 0
- verb pan If something such as a film or a book is panned by journalists, they say it is very bad. 0
- verb pan If you pan a film or television camera or if it pans somewhere, it moves slowly round so that a wide area is filmed. 0
- verb pan If someone pans for gold, they use a shallow metal container to try to find small pieces of gold from a river. 0
- noun pan a wide metal vessel used in cooking 0
- noun pan (in combination) 0
- noun pan the amount such a vessel will hold 0
- noun pan any of various similar vessels used esp in industry, as for boiling liquids 0
- noun pan a dish used by prospectors, esp gold prospectors, for separating a valuable mineral from the gravel or earth containing it by washing and agitating 0
- noun pan either of the two dishlike receptacles on a balance 0
- noun pan the bowl of a lavatory 0
- noun pan a natural or artificial depression in the ground where salt can be obtained by the evaporation of brine 0
- noun pan a natural depression containing water or mud 0
- noun pan the indented top from an oil drum used as the treble drum in a steel band 0
- noun pan a small ice floe 0
- noun pan a small cavity containing priming powder in the locks of old guns 0
- noun pan a hard substratum of soil 0
- verb pan to wash (gravel) in a pan to separate particles of (valuable minerals) from it 0
- verb pan (of gravel) to yield valuable minerals by this process 0
- verb pan to criticize harshly 0
- verb pan to move (a film camera) or (of a film camera) to be moved so as to follow a moving object or obtain a panoramic effect 0
- noun pan the act of panning 0
- noun pan (as modifier) 0
- noun pan the leaf of the betel tree 0
- noun pan a preparation of this leaf which is chewed, together with betel nuts and lime, in India and the East Indies 0
- noun pan the god of fields, woods, shepherds, and flocks, represented as a man with a goat's legs, horns, and ears 0
- abbreviation PAN Panama 0
- noun pan peroxyacetyl nitrate 0
- noun pan a god of fields, forests, wild animals, flocks, and shepherds, represented as having the legs (and, sometimes, horns and ears) of a goat: identified with the Roman Faunus 0
- noun pan any of many kinds of containers, usually broad, shallow, without a cover, and made of metal, used for domestic purposes 0
- noun pan any object or part shaped like a pan 0
- noun pan an open container for washing out gold, tin, etc. from gravel or the like, in mining 0
- noun pan either receptacle in a pair of scales 0
- noun pan a container for heating, evaporating, etc. 0
- noun pan the amount a pan will hold 0